Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn't pay much - Alex Holliday's stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers - but it helps him and his mum make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-coloured spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at maths, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement - and the more expensive the ...

Tenth title in the worldwide bestselling Treehouse series from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, now in Hardback.

Since the end of the Cold War, international organisations have assumed a greater importance on the world stage. The United Nations has played a key role in all of the major security issues during this period - increasingly called upon to address other global problems such as poverty and international crime - while the European Union has created a single currency and moved towards the adoption of a constitution. The growing significance of the World Trade Organisation and other economic insti...

This book concerns Cindy who one night witnesses a guy leaving her sorority house. She's about to call out to him thinking he's the guy who mends things for them when she notices something dripping from the baseball bat in his hand. This guy has attacked her friends and she later finds out that her best friend is dead and two of the girls are badly beaten. She is frozen in fear and shrinks into the darkness. She will always remember that night . . .

In the present Cindy is thinking ...