The Diary Of Amos Lee #1 : I Sit, I Write, I Flush!This diary began as Mum's New Year's resolution to get me to write. She told me to write when I am doing my big business. 'Five to eight minutes max!' she said. 'I don't want you to develop piles!' And so my writing in the bathroom began. My entries started with the boring old stuff. Then Mum got this new job as a writer and, following her around, I got to do fun stuff like ogle at deformed frogs, see into the future with a fortune telling parrot and

Richard Allbright

Crack the Code

but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes

To Kill A Mocking Bird

Puffin Classics - One Dozen Stories

and the next

Now they stand in the path of an alien race bent on universal domination

For Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's thirty-second birthday she gets an unusual gift: a homicide call out

'Five stars'

but when she arrives in a quiet street in South London she's in for a surprise

Also included are other tales such as 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

such as avoiding eye contact