First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2016
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Series design by David Mackintosh
Illustrations © David Mackintosh 2015
Illustrations of characters in end material © Lauren Child
Map layouts by Martin Brown
Map illustrations © Emily Faccini
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Source ISBN: 9780007334285
Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008190156
Version: 2017-04-04
Contents
Chapter 1. A window on the world
Chapter 5. Snakes and mushrooms
Chapter 7. One bad apple or two?
Chapter 13. Sprayed and delivered
Chapter 14. The wrong kind of snow
Chapter 15. Thirty Minutes of Murder
Chapter 22. Something remembered
Chapter 23. A man’s best friend
Chapter 24. Hypocrea asteroidi
Chapter 25. Mushrooms from Mars
Chapter 26. The trolley problem