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Jake Cake

by 6 books in this series
Jake Cake: The Football Beast
Jake Cake: The Football Beast
Have you ever met a yeti playing football, a very tricky sea monster or a REAL phantom on the ghost train at the funfair? Jake has, and here's what happened when he met them! (Nobody believed him, of course.)
Jake Cake: The Pirate Curse
Jake Cake: The Pirate Curse
The fifth book about Jake Cake and his EXTRAORDINARY adventures. Here are three more hilarious stories, written in Jake Cake's own notebooks and embellished with his very funny comments and illustrations.

It's not Jake's fault that he gets cursed by the ghost of Old Crusty, the fierce pirate (get those decks swabbed!), meets an alien pretending to be his granny and rubs up against a really mean genie!
Jake Cake: The School Dragon
Jake Cake: The School Dragon
The third book in a four-book series. Each book has three unbelievable adventures written in Jake's own notebooks and embellished with his gloriously funny comments and illustrations throughout.

Here Jake meets a dragon in the basement, a troll under his bed and a really sneaky spook - boo!
Jake Cake: The Visiting Vampire
Jake Cake: The Visiting Vampire
In this fourth book in the series, Jake battles with a vampire visiting his school (fangs and bats and zombies), a demon hairdresser (arrrrrggggh!) and stays in a haunted castle (things that go CLANG in the night!).
Jake Cake: The Robot Dinner Lady
Jake Cake: The Robot Dinner Lady
Jake Cake is an ordinary kid who likes writing and illustrating stories about his adventures. He swears they're all true, but no one ever believes him.

In this second book of a four-book series, Jake discovers the school dinner lady is a robot (and she can't cook chips!), he has goblins in his garden (they're green and they bite) and he's tricked by a really tricky witch (trouble!).

Just perfect for readers of 7+.
Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher
Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher
This is the first book in a four-book series. Each book has three unbelievable adventures written in Jake's own notebooks and embellished with his gloriously funny comments and illustrations throughout. Here Jake meets a werewolf, a monster and a real-life mummy.

Deliciously funny, the stories are a satisfying blend of comforting real life mixed with magical mayhem. Just right for boys and girls of 7+, and for all fans of Horrid Henry!

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