Murderous Maths: Desperate Measures

Wondering why your homework takes so long and why your maths books seem to take up all the room in your bag? Desperate Measures can help you work out why! This murderously funny book is packed with mathematical measures… and more chuckles than you can count! Find out how dense you are! See why a horse needs hands! And gasp as the Gollarks get to grips with Length, Area and Volume in the brave attempt to defeat an alien invasion from the planet Zog! Gulp!

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    Kjartan Poskitt

    Kjartan lives in York with his wife and four children. He regularly performs at venues all over the country.

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    Winner of the 2012 Sheffield Children’s Book Award for Agatha Parrot and the Floating Head.

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    Philip Reeve

    Philip Reeve is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the Mortal Engines books.

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    Philip has won many major awards, including the Nestle Smarties and Blue Peter prizes for Mortal Engines, the Guardian prize for A Darkling Plain and the Carnegie medal for Here Lies Arthur.

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