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Surfing the net during a lightning storm has amazing consequences for a group of teenage friends. Superhero powers are theirs at the click of a mouse! Trouble is, they don't know what the powers will be until they try them out. But super powers carry super responsibilities. When a weather-altering, world-conquering supervillain kidnaps their mum, they have to decide: save her or save the world!

School bully Jake Hunter receives a mysterious email inviting him to join a scheme for world domination. With unlimited power and wealth at his fingertips, how can he resist? But to get it, he has to become an arch-criminal, entangled in a plan that threatens the planet. And that could just be a step too far.

Archfiends Basilisk and Worm are about to hijack Hero HQ. First, though, they've got to infiltrate HERO.COM, the website from which heroes download their abilities. When the site crashes, for some reason Pete, Toby, Lorn and Emily are the only ones left with powers... and they’re not exactly brilliant at the job at the best of times.

Everyone knows crime is a major problem in the virtual reality world of SPACE. And the smarter criminals realised long ago that to fully exploit people in the real world, they need to hunt the vulnerable in VR. So when his troubled mother disappears one day, VR-obsessed Baxter knows that to save her life he must first track her down in SPACE. But how do you solve a mystery in a world without fingerprints, DNA or clues? Baxter has done it in video games his whole life. But this time things are about to get very real....

When a baby gorilla is snatched from its family by the world’s most infamous hunter, Tarzan will stop at nothing to track him down, crossing the wild jungle and hostile African savannah to bring him to justice. But Robbie has ideas of his own. He has formed a plan that will get rid of Tarzan for good, and keep the secrets of his own past safe. Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior brings the classic story bang into the 21st century.

Jake Hunter was once an ordinary schoolboy with a computer - until he discovered Villain.net. Now he is an extraordinary schoolboy with a dark side, a bad attitude and an addiction to the villainous powers he can download from the website. And when Jake Hunter - aka the Hunter - breaks out of prison, he has one thing on his mind: revenge. He is going to get his family back, avenge himself on hero Psych, who has wiped all memory of him from their minds, and then destroy heroes and villains.

Escaping a dark secret, Robbie Canler joins an illegal logging team in the Congo jungle. Now they’re under siege from a sinister force. When the daughter of the camp’s boss, Jane Porter, goes missing they assume rebel soldiers have kidnapped her. Robbie sets out on a rescue mission – unaware he is being watched... Are the rumours of a feral man raised by wild apes true? If so, can the mysterious untamed savage be trusted to help them?

Schoolboy supervillain, Jake Hunter, has taken his seat on the Council of Evil, now he will exact revenge on the cruel world. But the cruel world has other plans, and they come in the shape of the Hero Foundation. Jake's not scared of the Hero Foundation. He even has a plan to turn it to the dark side. Until it gets a new member - Jake's own sister.

The Hero Foundation is a shadow of its former self and Lord Eon - the most terrible supervillain ever - is still at large. Worse, he has hatched a plan to tear apart time. Toby and his superhero friends should be able to stop him- but in the struggle that will follow, friendships will be tested as time runs out for the world... literally...