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Toxic Reading Books

Interest age 9 - 12 | Reading age 7 - 11 years

There are currently ten reading books in the Toxic series.

The Battle of the Undersea Kingdom

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277102

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Lime

When people start going missing at sea, Danny joins his dad’s undersea trip to investigate what’s been happening. They are shocked to stumble upon the real lost city of Atlantis, inhabited by bizarre fish people who have lived there for hundreds of years. But the lost city’s supply of gold has run out and they’ve started kidnapping humans and demanding huge ransoms for their return. With time running out, Danny and his father must break into the city and release the human hostages.

Football Force

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277133

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Lime

It’s 2066 and football has changed. Players now add to their skills and powers by wearing new football body ‘armour’ – enhanced ankles, dextrous feet and ultra-strong knees. But Jim Tranton is sure that the country’s number one youth team, Vestige United, are cheating in some way and he sets out to find out how. When he discovers that the team are indeed breaking the rules, he is forced to go undercover, and in exposing the team he almost gets himself killed.

Island Shock

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277119

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Brown

Mike wakes up to find himself on a deserted island with no idea how he got there. Soon he realises that something sinister is going on. The secret is revealed when Mike finds a cave containing an entire film production crew and realises his whole experience has been set up by a TV company. He is a TV show. Mike then turns the tables on the TV team, terrifying them and leaving the island on their boat – their only means of departure – and their satellite phone – their only means of communication.

Gladiator Revival

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277126

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Brown

Nick and Kat are on holiday in Rome with their parents. When they follow a strange underground trail they end up in a Gladiator Arena that has been trapped in time. Immediately they are grabbed and trained as gladiators. Things start to get a lot worse when they are forced to enter the arena to take on a mythical half-wolf/half-lion beast. Nick and Kat manage to escape, aided by mobile phones, but after their escape they realise with horror that the beast has followed them and is now roaming the streets of modern-day Rome.

Crash Land Earth

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277140

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Grey
It’s 2100. The world’s first school trip to Mars is well underway when the spaceship crash-lands back on Earth in a hot dusty desert. Everyone in the party survives, but then strange things start to happen and the people they meet are far from normal. As events spiral out of control it becomes apparent that they have landed on Earth 2 – a replica planet constructed by an alien race. Soon it’s a battle to the death, with the survival of the group, and of planet Earth, at stake.

By Royal Order or Death

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277157

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Grey

Miles is training to be one of the Royal Protection Hub’s youth members, who are tasked with protecting the royal family. When a shady group kidnap thirteen-year-old Princess Helena, Miles is grabbed with her. Locked in a high-tech vault, he discovers that the kidnappers are intending to replace the Princess with a clone, who will rejoin the royal family and then steal everything from them. In a ferocious race against the clock, Miles must use his skill and cunning to outwit the kidnappers and save the Princesses’ life.

Robots V Humans

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277171

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Dark Blue

A new school has just opened, sponsored by multi-billionaire Jensen Hazard. Its students are a mix of human children who have been frozen from birth and re-awoken, and robot children. None of the students, including Nico, know if they are human or robot. When the students are pitted against each other in ever more dangerous activities, Nico discovers he’s human – but Jensen Hazard himself is a robot – and one with a mission. Nico needs to get to Hazard before Hazard gets to him.

Zombie Camp

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277188

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Dark Blue

At summer sports camp, Arjun and Kev discover that the camp leader, Marcus, is a zombie. Gradually they discover that all of the camp leaders are zombies. And the zombies’ plan is to turn all of the camp kids into zombies, to form a youth zombie army. When Arjun and Kev set out to destroy the zombies and save the remaining human kids’ lives, they find out that the zombies have some chilling tricks up their sleeves. Will Arjun and Kev manage to escape their terrifying clutches?

Virus 21

Author:

Jonny Zucker

ISBN:

9781781277164

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Dark Red

A new computer virus is rapidly spreading through the world, but it doesn’t just harm computers, it’s making humans ill as well. Twins Troy and Macy’s father works at Virus Detect, a huge company tasked with finding the hackers behind the virus. The twins discover that the hackers aren’t humans at all – it’s all been set up by the computers themselves. With the world banking system about to collapse and nuclear warheads about to be launched, Troy and Macy have to find the Central Computer and shut it down.

Terror of the Swamp

Author:

John Townsend

ISBN:

9781781277195

Price:

£6.99

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Book Band: Dark Red

Secrets hide in the vast jungle swamp – killer crocs, snakes and even, reputedly, a living dinosaur. When a TV crew trying to make a film about these dangers vanishes without trace, the army send in their top jungle explorer, secretly accompanied by his ten-year-old son. It’s soon up to young Greg to discover the truth… and meet the biggest terror of the swamp face to face.