Cirrus@Austlit

'Bored at her conventional Dublin school, Jess Leclair is thrilled to be offered a place at Theruse Abbey, the training ground for the top secret PEP (Planet Earth Protection) Squad. During her first term Jess quickly makes friends with her room-mate, extreme-sport loving Emily Harris, and the Sykes twins, Ben and Matt. Together they learn the necessary skills to become world-class spies: lock-picking, creating disguises, abseiling, foreign languages and combat training. At the end of their first-year the teenagers are promised an easy first mission, but faced with armed guards, a complex security system, an evil genius and a traitor in their midst the trainee spies must save the day or die trying.' (Source: Author's website)

'The sixth and last book in the series that sees our heroine brave yet another exceptional adventure, this time in the zoo. Ralph, Sarah, and the rest of their class visit the zoo on an excursion. Despite the fabulous attractions, they learn that the zoo-keeper may be forced to close his business and make way for a factory that creates TEXTA pens.' (Source: Amazon website)

'It's space week at Ralph's school and with the chance to attend a space camp and build a real test rocket up for grabs, rivalry reaches fever pitch. With the help of Gloop, space-pen Sputnik and all the other pencils, Penny is stretched to the limit to prevent her arch enemy Black Texta destroying Ralph's chances.' (Source: WorldCat website)

'It is Health Awareness Month in Ralph's school. The new arrival in the pencil case, Baron de Couberpen, is whipping the pencils into shape for the inaugural Pencilympics. But even before the Pencilympic flame is lit, the competition takes a terrible turn when Cheetah the Cheater almost drowns during training for the rowing race. Penny has her suspicions of who is behind the sinister sabotage.' (Source: WorldCat website)

'Penny can't believe her luck. She had told everyone she was going to become a TV star and now it was actually happening. Officer Cool is Ralph's favourite TV show and she is the new Officer Lead, his trusted pencil. With her new friends Clapper, the clapperboard, Ruby the make-up brush and Meg, the megaphone, Penny has to save the show from being taken off the air. Someone is tampering with the scripts and Penny has a feeling that the evil Black Texta might be back. Penny's idea to run a competition to appear on the show might just save it, but when Bert the Bully wins the competition, she begins to get suspicious of foul play.' (Source: WorldCat website)

'Having overthrown Black Texta and his evil sidekick Rubber, Penny and her friends can get on with helping Ralph with his schoolwork. But someone is writing graffiti on Ralph's school books, vandalising Sarah's entry in the school colouring competition. With help from Sarah's pencil Polly, Penny finds out who is committing these dastardly deeds.' (Source: WorldCat website)

'Penny is a clever little pencil who helps her friend Ralph to cope with school work, bullies and the evil Black Texta.' (Source: Faber-Castell)