Trouble According to Humphrey
Author: Betty G Birney
This is Humphrey’s third adventure with the pupils of Longfellow School and this time Humphrey is up to his furry, chubby cheeks in trouble. There’s trouble for Pay-Attention-Art as his…
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MoreGreg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school, where undersized weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving. Desperate to…
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MoreThe second hilarious tale about a frog on a serious mission, in a world where nobody is sure what the bumbles is going on! Frog has saved the princess (and…
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MoreRory Rooney and Tommy-Lee Komissky are not the best of friends, so when they find themselves in an isolation ward because they have both turned green, it’s really not ideal….
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