{"product_id":"showroom-sample-childrens-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4031","title":"Showroom Sample Children's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4031","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShowroom Sample Children's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4031\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen titles dominated by the biggest names in UK children's fiction — David Walliams, Tom Fletcher, Pamela Butchart, David Baddiel, Sophie Anderson, and more — covering comedy, adventure, fantasy, and feel-good fiction for readers aged seven to twelve. Please note these are showroom sample copies and may have a small sticker on the cover and show light signs of wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Gym Teacher Is an Alien Overlord — David Solomons — The second in Solomons's My Brother Is a Superhero series; a new gym teacher with suspicious powers can only be stopped by one boy with a very unusual brother. Funny, pacy, and brilliantly plotted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDork Diaries: Party Time — Rachel Renée Russell — The second in Russell's global bestseller series, in which Nikki navigates the perils of a school party and a rival determined to ruin it. As sharp and funny as the series opener.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRatburger — David Walliams — A girl with a dreadful home life befriends a rat called Ratty, who is promptly threatened by the sinister Burger Van Man. Walliams at his most Roald Dahl-esque — dark, funny, and unexpectedly moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAttack of the Demon Dinner Ladies — Pamela Butchart — Izzy and her friends investigate the alarming behaviour of the school dinner ladies in another Baby Aliens adventure. Butchart's books have become a fixture of the UK primary school classroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon — Pamela Butchart — A standalone Butchart comedy in which a girl must break a curse before her class trip is ruined by a series of increasingly bizarre disasters. Illustrated with great humour by Gemma Correll.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife — Maz Evans — The first in Evans's series following Scarlett, whose life is spectacularly falling apart in every direction at once; fast, funny, and capturing the chaos of being eleven with uncommon accuracy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUmbrella Mouse to the Rescue — Anna Fargher — Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, this novel follows a mouse who joins the French Resistance in wartime Paris. A genuinely beautiful book — adventurous, emotional, and historically grounded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother Twist in the Tale — Catherine Bruton — A modern Oliver Twist retelling set in the care system, with warmth and a real understanding of what it means to belong nowhere. Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Creakers — Tom Fletcher — All the grown-ups have vanished overnight, replaced by sinister creatures called Creakers who live under beds; a small boy must investigate in Fletcher's inventive, spooky, and very funny debut novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Parent Agency — David Baddiel — A boy who complains constantly about his parents is transported to a world where children can choose their own, and quickly learns to be careful what he wishes for. Baddiel is one of the sharper comic voices in contemporary children's fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Boy in the Dress — David Walliams — A boy who loves fashion wears a dress to school with unexpectedly affirming consequences; Walliams's first novel remains one of his most thoughtful, and was adapted for television by the BBC.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBad Dad — David Walliams — A boy's father, freshly released from prison, finds redemption in the most unexpected way in a Walliams novel that is funnier and more tender than his earlier work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch — Tom Fletcher — The sequel to Fletcher's debut phenomenon, in which a new adventure takes William and his dinosaur friend into a frozen world ruled by an ice witch. Fletcher at his most ambitious.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe House with Chicken Legs — Sophie Anderson — Loosely inspired by Baba Yaga, this extraordinary debut follows a girl who guides the dead to the afterlife but longs for a living friend. A genuinely unusual and beautiful book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shark Caller — Zillah Bethell — Set in Papua New Guinea, this novel follows a boy who can call sharks with his singing and a girl who disrupts his world when she arrives after losing her home to a cyclone. Lyrical, original, and unlike anything else in the box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStorey Treehouse — Andy Griffiths \u0026amp; Terry Denton — One of the internationally bestselling Treehouse series, in which Andy and Terry's ever-expanding treehouse presents new floors and new chaos with each instalment. One of the great reluctant-reader phenomena of the past decade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMurder in Midwinter — Fleur Hitchcock — A teenage girl witnesses a murder on a train in the run-up to Christmas, in a tightly plotted YA mystery from one of the genre's most reliably gripping writers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lightning Catcher — Clare Weze — A boy must rescue a friend from a lightning storm connected to the mysterious lightning catcher his mother used to be. A debut novel of real atmospheric invention.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50512358637787,"sku":"SP4031","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4031.jpg?v=1790221356","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/showroom-sample-childrens-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4031","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}