Horrid Henry Rocks

By Francesca Simon and Tony Ross

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Apr 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781402256752

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon MBE spent her childhood on the beach in California and started writing stories at the age of eight. She wrote her first Horrid Henry book in 1994. Horrid Henry has gone on to conquer the globe; his adventures are published in 27 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Francesca has won the Children's Book of the Year Award and been a judge for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. In 2009, in one of the proudest moments of her career, Francesca was awarded a Gold Blue Peter badge. She was appointed MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours. Francesca is also a passionate ambassador for children's literacy and is a trustee of the World Book Day charity. She lives in North London with her family. Visit Francesca's website at www.francescasimon.com and keep up-to-date with Horrid Henry at www.horridhenry.co.uk. You can also follow her on Twitter @simon_francesca

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Copyright

Text © Francesca Simon 2010

Cover and internal illustrations © Tony Ross 2010

Cover and internal design © 2011 by Sourcebooks, Inc.

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc.

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Orion Children’s Books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file with the publisher.

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

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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

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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