Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer (Book 1) by Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer (Book 1) by Rick RiordanThe first book in the incredible new series from the author of Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus. My name is Magnus Chase. I'm orphaned and living rough on the streets of Boston. And things are about to get much worse. My day started out normally enough. I was sleeping under a bridge when some guy kicked me awake and said, 'They're after you.' Next thing I know, I'm reunited with my obnoxious uncle, who casually informs me that

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With gymkhanas to win

nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek

This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man

Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden

Each Peach Pear Plum is a work of genius' Elaine Moss'This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond

A city of contrasts

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'This is the land of Narnia

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Lucy steps into the Professor's wardrobe - but steps out again into a snowy forest