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The fourth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! A routine operation for James turns into a much more deadly mission • Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around, the cops are desperate to know where it came from • They call in CHERUB, a secret organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them • James' latest mission looks routine, but the plot he begins to unravel isn't what anyone expected. And the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-year-old boy • There's just one problem. The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier

The tenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James and Lauren are off to America to help train the army - and get into trouble in Las Vegas • The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American battalion • But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever • CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that kids are spying on them • For official purposes, these children do not exist

The seventh title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James uncovers corruption where he least suspects it • When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive • Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation • And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning • CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them • For official purposes, these children do not exist

Summer, 1940 • Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run • Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents • British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan • The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to win the war • For official purposes, these children do not exist

The second title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James' mission is to try where dozens of attempts by undercover police officers have failed • When CHERUB kids go undercover, no one suspects that they are trained professionals, working to infiltrate criminal organisations that have eluded MI5 and the police for years • James Adams is on his biggest mission yet, working to nail Europe's most powerful cocaine dealer. He'll need all his specialist training if he's going to bring down the man at the top • The reason for CHERUB's existence is simple: adults never suspect that children are spying on them • For official purposes, these children do not exist

The third title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James has to bust an inmate out of a high-security US prison • Over the years, CHERUB has put plenty of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they've got to break one out • Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of these child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison of Arizona Max. In one of the most dangerous CHERUB missions ever, James Adams has to go undercover inside Arizona Max, befriend an inmate and then bust him out • CHERUB kids are trained professionals, working in everyday situations. Their essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them • For official purposes, these children do not exist

Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940, living on a farm near Calais with four runaway kids cut adrift by the war. He and his young agents are playing a dangerous game: translating for the German high command and sending information back to Britain about the Nazi plans to invade England in September, on Eagle Day. The RAF must destroy the Nazi invasion fleet, but Northern France is heavily defended and the camouflaged barges are impossible to target at night. Together, Henderson and his team hatch a daring plan to guide the British bombers to their target. Their lives are on the line, but the stakes couldn't possibly be higher

Spring, 1941 • German submarines are prowling the North Atlantic, sinking ships filled with the food, fuel and weapons that Britain needs to survive • With the Royal Navy losing the war at sea, six young agents must sneak into Nazi-occupied Europe and sabotage a submarine base on France's western coast • If the submarines aren't stopped, the British people will starve

Britain, 1941 • The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover, gathering information and planning sabotage operations. Henderson's boys are part of that network: kids cut adrift by the war, training for the fight of their lives. They'll have to parachute into unknown territory, travel cross-country and outsmart a bunch of adults in a daredevil exercise • In wartime Britain, anything goes

Book two of the second CHERUB series, featuring a new cast of characters - just as compelling as the first, which has sold millions of copies world-wide • Ryan has saved Ethan's life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them. Ethan's family runs a billion-dollar criminal empire and Ryan's job is to destroy it. Can Ryan complete his mission without destroying Ethan as well? • For official purposes, these children do not exist

The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven – ready to solve any mystery, any time – in Enid Blyton’s classic series of 15 mystery novels • When the gang go star-gazing, they soon get bored and spy on the town – and see someone setting a haystack on fire • Will the Seven act fast enough to save the barn? • In addition to the Secret Seven novels, Enid Blyton wrote six short stories based on the characters which are published in The Secret Seven Short Story Collection (Hodder). The stories are also available in individual volumes, divided into chapters to make them ideal for newly confident readers. They have been illustrated in full colour by Tony Ross

The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time - in Enid Blyton's classic series of 15 mystery novels • Peter and Janet think Old Mill is perfect for their Seven Society meetings - until they make a startling discovery about some stolen goods. So the gang hatch a plan to wait for the thieves to come back • In addition to the Secret Seven novels, Enid Blyton wrote six short stories based on the characters which are published in The Secret Seven Short Story Collection (Hodder). The stories are also available in individual volumes, divided into chapters to make them ideal for newly confident readers. They have been illustrated in full colour by Tony Ross