Best Selling Books by Mark Haddon

When Martin "Porky" Philips plays the genie in his school play, he conjures up a double of himself who threatens to take-over his life.

Quando a irmã de Jimbo diz que ele será transferido para uma escola especial para ''crianças com problemas'', o melhor amigo de Jimbo, Charlie, tem a brilhante ideia de espionar a sala dos professores. Ouvir dois professores conversando em uma língua totalmente maluca será o começo de uma encrenca maior ainda. Que a sra. Pearce e o sr. Kidd estão batendo o maior papo, deu pra perceber. Mas quando eles dizem coisas como ''Toller bandol venting'' e ''Tractor bonting dross'' o negócio fica complicado. Será que esses dois são ladrões de banco falando em código? Ou espiões? Aliens talvez? O que quer que sejam, Jimbo e seu amigo terão que descobrir. Mas quando Charlie desaparece, Jimbo precisa contar com a ajuda de Becky. Ela mesma, a irmã mais velha. Usando uma moto ''emprestada'', os dois partem em missão de resgate até a Ilha de Skye, na Escócia. Parece que um grupo muito doido de fãs de ficção científica, amiguinhos da sra. Pearce e do sr. Kidd, pode ter algo a ver com o misterioso sumiço.

Pools winner and total wazzock, Dennis Sidebottom has moved next door to Ben bringing his squeaky-clean kids with him. The Crane Grove Crew Ben, Barney and Jenks soon find themselves on the Sidebottom blacklist. Accused of being troublemakers and a bad influence, they decide to shake up the Sidebottom universe with the help of Agent Z, a meteorite and a stolen penguin. It''s Agent Z''s finest hour! From the Trade Paperback edition.

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the ''Sparknotes'' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail. So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler''s hand, and ghost women with lampreys'' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.