Horrid Henry Rocks
By Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
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Henry is up to his usual mischief: annoying his younger brother, ruining Moody Margaret's sleepover, and irritating his teacher, Mrs. Battleaxe—not to mention trying to manipulate his family into seeing his favorite band—the Killer Boy Rats.
"Kids will love reading the laugh-out-loud funny stories about someone whose behavior is even worse than their own." —School Library Journal
"Not since 'Nate the Great' has an early reader series created such a buzz." —Los Angeles Times
"Will engage even the most reluctant readers."
—Publishers Weekly
Francesca Simon
Francesca Simon is universally known for the staggeringly popular Horrid Henry series. These books and CDs have sold over 20 million copies in the UK alone and are published in 27 countries. Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman won the Children's Book of the Year award in 2008 at the British Book Awards. She lives in North London with her family.
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Horrid Henry Rocks - Francesca Simon
Copyright
Text © Francesca Simon 2010
Cover and internal illustrations © Tony Ross 2010
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Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Orion Children’s Books.
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Source of Production: East Peoria, Illinois, USA
Date of Production: March 2011
Run Number: 14632
For Jesse Nunn, a major-league Horrid Henry fan, and for Imogen Stubbs
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
1. Horrid Henry’s Invasion
2. Moody Margaret’s Sleepover
3. Horrid Henry’s Autobiography
4. Horrid Henry Rocks
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover
Baa! Baa! Baa!
Perfect Peter baaed happily at his sheep collection. There they were, his ten lovely little sheepies, all beautifully lined up from biggest to smallest, heads facing forward, fluffy tails against the wall, all five centimeters apart from one another, all—
Perfect Peter gasped. Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong. But what? What? Peter scanned the mantelpiece. Then he saw…
Nooooo!
Fluff Puff, his favorite sheep, the one with the pink and yellow nose, was facing the wrong way around. His nose was shoved against the wall. His tail was facing forward. And he was…he was…crooked!
This could only mean…this could only mean…
Mom!
screamed Peter. Mom! Henry was in my room again!
Henry!
shouted Mom. Keep out of Peter’s room.
I’m not in Peter’s room,
yelled Horrid Henry. I’m in mine.
But he was,
wailed Peter.
Was not!
bellowed Horrid Henry.
Tee-hee.
Horrid Henry was strictly forbidden to go into Peter’s bedroom without Peter’s permission. But sometimes, thought Horrid Henry, when Peter was being even