Best Selling Books by Lynne Reid Banks

Ella loves her school uniform, which includes a yellow T-shirt for gym. But hers is no ordinary T-shirt. It seems to have a plan of its own that keeps getting Ella into trouble. What does the magic T-shirt want, and how far will it go to get it?Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, gives us another of her tales of real magic, fun andyoung adventure!

"It''s a Hoo-Min! crackled George." "Walking on its hairy biter feet!" But now it was Harry who felt brave. "Come on! Lets''s peep at it." Harry is a poisonous centipede but he''s not very brave.Still, he is the star of this seriously squirmy story. Harry likes to eat things that wriggle and crackle, and things that are juicy and munchy! But there are some things that a centipede must never try to eat -- dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, mid the most dangerous of all ... Hoo-Mins! Harry''s mother makes him promise never to go up the Up-Pipe to the world of Hoo-Mins, but Harry''s best friend, George, has other ideas! And as every young Hoo-Min knows, when your best friend wants to do something that sounds exciting, it''s very hard to say no. So George and Harry poke their feelers out and smell the air....and that''s when their adventures begin. Lynne Reid Banks''s storytelling sparkles in this tale of her new centipede hero and his creepy-crawly world. Fizzing with fun, it will be a delightfully squirmy experience for all young readers.

Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.

A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in the mysterious life of a farm girl while on vacation in the south of France.

Relates the lives of four generations of girls who became the matriarchs of the Hebrew nation.

The Magic Continues . . . In The Indian In The Cupboard, Omri discovers a wonderful, magical world when a three inch high Indian named Little Bear came to life. Now, in The Return Of The Indian, Omri tries to see his friend Little Bear again, and lands in the middle of a whole new series of astonishing and dangerous adventures -- from which he may never escape!

Harry the Poisonous Centipede is now quite brave, but nothing can prepare him for this next adventure! He and best friend George are lost in a new and even scarier no-top world. Far from home, across the no-end puddle, they must negotiate a strange treeless cold desert, a Nest of Hoo-Mins, lots of noise-hurt and terrifying hairy-yowlers!

A rollicking magical adventure story as King Midas sets out to find a cure for his magic touch so that he can turn his daughter back from gold. Witches, dragons, wizards and a host of amazing characters feature in this spell-binding tale from a supreme storyteller.

Polly and Jake are very different characters from two very different places. When Polly takes an aeroplane to Africa to see Jake, she doesn’t know how different it will be from her cold, icy homeland in the arctic. With words by acclaimed author Lynne Reid Banks (The Indian in the Cupboard), this enchanting tale takes the readers across the continents to lands of hot plains, freezing lakes and plenty of adventure!

After the many trials and hard times in her life, Charlotte knows a few months of happiness after she marries at the age of thirty-four, and dies shortly after.

Another deliciously squirmy story about Harry the Poisonous Centipede, with all of Lynne Reid Banks''s usual charm and humour. Tony Ross''s wonderful illustrations perfectly capture the small world of Harry.

It all began with a birthday present nine-year-old Omri didn''t want. But when his toy Indian comes to life, this gift becomes Omri''s secret--precious, dangerous, wonderful, even magical. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In the fourth book in Bank''s acclaimed INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD saga, Omri and his family move to an old farmhouse, where he finds an ancient notebook that reveals a family secret-and the mysterious origins of his magical cupboard.

Follow Patika Paprika, Molly Mint and the other herbs and spice heroes on their quest to find the right foods - and make them even tastier. This enchanting adventure with words by acclaimed author Lynne Reid Banks (The Indian in the Cupboard) will entertain and educate children who love cooking (and those that don''t) everywhere!

For use in schools and libraries only. Omri acts decisively to save his Indian friend, Little Bear, and his village from destruction in the French and Indian War but becomes trapped between the worlds of fantasy and reality.

A hare uses his magic to help a lot of people and animals.

A hare uses his magic to help a lot of people and animals.

Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves. She thinks she wants to hide from the world, but finds out that even at the bottom of the heap, friends and love can still be found, and self-respect is still worth fighting for.

A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.