It's pouring with rain and there's nothing to do. Until Toby, Pete, Emily and Lorn log on to the internet. Toby's about to click on his favourite website when lightning hits the telegraph pole outside. 'HERO.COM' flashes on screen. What sort of site is this? Impatient to find out, Toby clicks on a strange icon. Suddenly his hands are stuck to the desk. It doesn't take Pete - comic fan extraordinaire - long to work out what has happened. But the others don't believe him . . . until he persuades Toby to climb up the wall, and then scuttle across the ceiling . . . just like a spider! Soon the kids are downloading all sorts of superhero powers - flying, telepathy, who knows what each one will be. But the exhilaration ends when they realise that they've been given these powers for a purpose. There are fiends and villains to hunt down and overcome, and one of the worst - Doc Tempest - is in town right now, developing a heinous plan to conquer the world. What the superheroes don't realise till they are in the eye of Doc Tempest's storm is that their powers are temporary and temperamental. So when the superhero powers run out (just when they need them most), who will save the earth from domination?!

Rise of the Heroes (Hero.Com)

Briggs, Andy

Oxford University Press

Jake Hunter is the school bully. Everybody keeps out of his away. Except for Pete (from HERO.COM) who Jake seeks out to bully. But Jake is also lonely and isolated. When he deliberately infects the school's IT system with a virus, he starts receiving strange emails. Somebody is inviting him to join them in Conquering the World and they send him a link to a website: 'VILLAIN.NET'. It only takes a few clicks before Jake finds himself signed up to something incredible: an entire world of supervillains. At last he feels at home. Soon Jake has been summoned by a fiend called Basilisk, a friend of Doc Tempest (from HERO.COM). Basilisk and Tempest want to bring down the pesky Council of Evil, the gruesome geeks behind VILLAIN.NET. They want to train Jake to do it. But how much choice will he have? Meantime, in school, some of the kids, Pete and his pals among them, are behaving as if they know that there's more to Jake than meets the eye. How is that possible? Soon Jake is fighting on all fronts - against himself and the good and bad struggling within him, against his evil masters who want him as their pawn, and against a group of kids from school. A new arch-villain could emerge as victor . . .

Council of Evil (Villain.Net)

The villain Basilisk is back, and his nefarious plan to infiltrate Hero.com and take it offline has worked—leaving Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily as the only Downloaders left on the planet! It’s up to the four friends to stop Basilisk before his computer virus completely destroys the Hero Foundation . . . but with glitchy, short-circuiting powers and some contention among their ranks, it’ll be no simple task to outwit, outpace, and outplot the evil mastermind. Virus Attack is an action-packed adventure, full of even more creative and exciting powers and intricately linked to the anti-series, Villian.net.

Virus Attack

Children's Books

Includes teaching notes by James Clements.

Project X Alien Adventures: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 16: Reign of the Practari (Project X ^IAlien Adventures^R)

Reference

English as a Second Language

Project X Alien Adventures: Dark Red Book Band, Oxford Level 18: Steam Pirates

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press, USA

The villain Basilisk is back, and his nefarious plan to infiltrate Hero.com and take it offline has worked-leaving Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily as the only Downloaders left on the planet! It's up to the four friends to stop Basilisk before his computer virus completely destroys the Hero Foundation . . . but with glitchy, short-circuiting powers and some contention among their ranks, it'll be no simple task to outwit, outpace, and outplot the evil mastermind. Virus Attack is an action-packed adventure, full of even more creative and exciting powers and intricately linked to the anti-series, Villian.net.

Virus Attack (Hero.com)

Action & Adventure

Walker Childrens

When a mysterious benefactor springs him from Diablo Island penitentiary, Jake Hunter is back on the run, trying to locate the man who wiped out his family's memories of him and dodging the efforts of the hero Chameleon to track him down. Unfortunately, his benefactor wants something in return-for Jake to kidnap the president of the United States. Sure, Jake's the most powerful supervillain on earth, but will the ordinary schoolkid in him be up to the deadly challenge? Dark Hunter is an action-packed adventure, full of even more dastardly villains and exciting showdowns and intricately linked to the anti-series, Hero.com.

Dark Hunter: A Villain.net novel

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily are just average kids―until they stumble upon a Web site called Hero.com and download powers that turn them into superheroes. At first, flying, teleporting, and shooting lasers from their eyes seems like nothing but fun. But when the supervillain Doc Tempest kidnaps Toby and Lorna's mom, things take a darker turn. 
Now the heroes must band together and use their new skills―from super-strength to invisibility―to rescue their mom, fight evil, and try to save the world from destruction. 
Of course, little do they know that Villain.net is out there too, recruiting teens for the other side. . . .

Rise of the Heroes (Hero.com)

Jake Hunter is your quintessential bully-tough, mean, and misunderstood. While he likes the power gotten from picking on the nerdy kids, he's sick of his dumb buddies, and he craves some adventure in his dull life. So when he stumbles upon a Web site called Villain.net that lets him download superpowers, he's eager to try out the laser vision and the radioactivity. But when he joins forces with a supervillain named Basilisk, Jake must decide if he truly wants to accept the consequences of being a villain. And of course, little does he know that Hero.com is out there too, recruiting teens for the other side. . . .

Council of Evil: A Villain.net novel

From the Dee Estuary to the Bristol Channel, the Welsh coastline provides a playground for the sea kayaker. The fifty journeys selected here cover different parts of the coast and provide paddles and testing offshore trips. This book includes anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals.

Welsh Sea Kayaking

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Cordee

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