Collection title is SS Adventure and Thrillers

Anthony Horowitz is a British writer. His works include the Alex Rider series, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels and Foyle's War for television.

'Z.Raptor' is a thriller about hyper-evolved dinosaurs battling for supremacy on a small Pacific island, with 14-year-old Adam and a few friends struggling to survive in their midst. Who should Adam trust, and where can he turn for help when his dad disappears and every moment feels like it could be his last?

On New Year's Eve, Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days. Now he's on the run. The people who killed his father want him dead, and the police are chasing him for a crime he didn't commit.

A bloody war is raging across the oceans, with the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals in alliance against the renegade Vampirates, led by Sidorio and Lola. Lola might be heavily pregnant with twins, but it doesn't stop her from remaining an active presence in battles!

An 11-year-old boy discovers he has strange powers, and a future that holds mystery, adventure - and death.

Deep within Siberia, a mother Amur leopard, one of the rarest big cats in the world, senses danger. Meanwhile Amazon Hunt, aged 12, is being readied to rescue wild animals under threat. Amazon and her cousin Frazer brave the Russian wilderness to save the Amur leopard before a blazing forest fire wipes out the race - for good.

Charlie Ashanti can speak Cat. He takes it for granted, but when his mum and dad go missing, the cats are the only friends he can turn to. Setting out to find his parents, Charlie stows away on a circus ship. On board he meets six lions who need his help. They embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

Flying to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste, the squad face another adventure to complete their mission. They need courage and determination when they come face-to-face with a man who is ready to kill to stop them.

Owen has just spent the week from hell on an island with his friend Vicky. They're not talking and they'll be happy if they never see each other again. Being stuck on Vicky's uncle's boat sailing back to the mainland is the last straw. Things can't possibly get any worse than this. Can they?

Amazon and her cousin Frazer are members of TRACKS. Normally they protect the world's rarest animals, but their mission just got personal. Amazon's parents have been kidnapped - and the trail leads to the buzzing city of Mumbai, India. Meanwhile reports reach the TRACKS HQ that a giant and very rare python has been spotted high in the foothills of the Himalayas and it needs help. Frazer has no choice but to leave Amazon so he can rescue the snake while she continues her search. It won't be long before they're reunited, though. Because out in the unknown a long-forgotten and ruthless enemy is waiting!

Dax is starting to get used to his life as a shapeshifter. At last he feels safe and secure, surrounded by people he trusts, and with real friends who understand what he is going through. But then everything changes, and Dax finds himself in danger beyond his wildest dreams.

This final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead, this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet.

One beat of a butterfly's wings is all it takes to set in motion a chain of events, over the course of one day, which will change people's lives - and end people's lives. From the father and son diving in Hawaii to the teenagers surfing the bullet train, from the kidnapped girl in Rio to a bear attack in Japan, the chaos knows no bounds.

June 1613. Japan is threatened with war and Jack is facing his greatest battle yet. Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jack's warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival and that of his friends depends upon him mastering the two heavens, the secret sword technique of the samurai Masamoto Takeshi.

H.I.V.E. is in grave danger. Dr Nero, its leader, has been captured by the world's most ruthless security force. It's up to Otto to save him, but first he must escape Nero's sinister replacement and H.I.V.E. itself.

London is flooded. With streets underwater, communications down, rats pouring up out of the sewers and thousands of people in a state of panic, survival becomes a very key issue for Ben and his mates. But worse is to come when a high-security prison is evacuated and a vanload of category A prisoners is caught in the torrent.

Tom Trelawney was looking for excitement, and he's found it. He's travelling to South America on a quest for hidden gold, with his eccentric Uncle Harvey. But Harvey has some dangerous enemies and they want the treasure too. Who will be the first to uncover the secrets of the mysterious island?

'New Century Readers' are educational texts that include pre- and post-1914 fiction, poetry and plays. They include activities which offer specific practice in the skills required by the English Test in the SATs. 'Journey to the River Sea' tells the tale of a girl's emigration to South America.

The human bait was the boys themselves. Hal and Roger Hunt have been sent on a terrifying mission - they must save the population of Mtito Andei from a man-eating lion. But the 'King of the Beasts' isn't the only thing trying to kill the boys. Have the brothers bitten off more than they can chew this time?

Five kids have bonded into a unique team, ready to go anywhere in the world to help others in need. Undercover, they head for the Sahara desert, resolved to gather evidence of young landmine victims. But they are catapulted into a desperate race across the desert when they discover something even worse.

An elite team is sent to South America to take part in an SAS operation to catch an evil drugs rat. They begin with the street kids but their adventure takes them high into the mountains. Will their skills be enough to lead to a successful operation?

When a butterfly startles a young rabbit, and the rabbit makes a horse rear, it starts a chain of events, over the course of one day, that will change people's lives - and end people's lives. From the climber on Everest to the boy in Malawi, the commercial pilot to the American psycho, the chaos knows no bounds.

The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the 21st century, accused of murder and on the run. Riley has been pulled into the FBI's covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

Hal & Roger have a problem. Big game poachers threaten to wipe out the inhabitants of the world's largest national park. They capture the gang red-handed, but have no idea who the leader is. They must find a way to stop him before the park is destroyed.

Alex Rider travels from a mission at Wimbledon to an investigation on Cayo Esqueleto, Cuba. He begins to make links between several deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and General Sarov's plans for the future of the world.