CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the pastMission 4: BloodaxeDark Age England, 954.Bloodaxe was the Viking King of York – a fierce and uncompromising leader.BB005 jettisons into the Viking camp and, with the help of Viking FightRite 101, defends himself against Bloodaxe's son Haeric.? Mission objective: collect Bloodaxe's DNA and record his famous last battle.

The 11th and 12th titles in this gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing series – designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time travel, adventure, great stories, gadgets galore...Mission 11: Super Soldier-Book no. 66: Battle of Thermopylae, 380 BC. Persian King Xerxes I fights Greek forces led by the Spartans-Mission objective: Professor Perdu wants to try out her latest creation – the 2.2 metre tall super soldier, Tex. However, an accident in the Tome Tower means that a Battle Book has been sucked into another Battle Book! Together, BB005 and Tex must retrieve the missing Battle Book, before it falls into the wrong hands!

Thirteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Smythe (Battle Boy 005) is now Battle Agent 005.Along with BA004 (a super smart boy but a real smarty pants too), BA009 (a girl with attitude and no time for a smarty pants) and super soldier TEX, he is a member of the Omega Squad, an elite team of Time Troopers sent back into history for Operation Battle Book.Time is running out for Omega Squad - literally! Operation Battle Book has been suspended and Professor Perdu is being watched closely by her superiors. Alpha Agent One has uncovered MANIC's terrible plan - a plan that will endanger the whole planet. Can Omega Squad decipher the clues and thwart MANIC before it's too late? It's a race through time in the final book in this thrilling series.

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years old Assignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the past Mission 16: Warrior QueenBook no. 145: Boudicea's Uprising – AD 60-61Mission objective: In this special Verge Volume – containing multiple battles – BB005 must navigate his way through time and space to locate Queen Boadicea of the Iceni tribe, who led an uprising against the occupying Roman Empire. BB005 must return the Great Torc to Boudicea before the final battle so that history remains on course!

Anything can happen in a Metabook Battle Boy 005 is heading into one of the biggest Metabooks of all – MB7. It's the battle of the Atlantic – the longest battle of the Second World War, fought between German U-boats and Allied ships. BB005 will be in and above the water as he zooms from ship to submarine. His mission objective: try to survive.

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the pastMission 7: Vampire Virus• BB005 is going back to the Battle of Cannae, 216 BC.• Mission objective: Stop the Vampire Virus that has contaminated this book and is spreading through the Battle Books. He needs a virus expert for this mission: meet BG01 - Battle Girl

Thirteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Smythe (Battle Boy 005) is now Battle Agent 005. Along with BA004, BA009 and super soldier TEX, he is a member of Omega Squad - an elite team of Time Troopers sent back into history for Operation Battle Book.But Professor Perdu, their mission controller, is worried. Someone is stealing TIME and ENERGY bundles from the Battle Books. Someone is determined to sabotage Operation Battle Book. But who? And why?

Operation Battle Book is under attack! In a mysterious case of high-tech body snatching, Battle Books have been secretly hacked into and robbed of their key historical figures. Great leaders from the past – generals, emperors, warriors, kings and queens – have been stolen! Omega Squad must find the culprits before the Battle Books are completely destroyed. But Professor Perdu is being watched by MANIC, and Alpha Agent One has gone underground. BA005, BA004 and BA009 can trust no one.

The 11th and 12th titles in this gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing series – designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time travel, adventure, great stories, gadgets galore...Mission 12: Sky Wars-MetaBook 3: Zeppelin war between Germany and Britain, 1915 – 1916.-Mission objective: This is BB005's first special MetaBook mission. MetaBooks contain multiple battles over long periods of time, and nobody has ever explored one before. In this mission, BB005 will be flying blind – no contact with the outside world, and no instruction manual!

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the pastMission 8: Chariot Charge• The Battle of Kadesh, 1400 BC – the most famous chariot battle between the Hittities and the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II.• Mission objectives:1) discover who wins the Battle of Kadesh.2) discover the location of the tomb of Prince Awutali – and the priceless treasure that was buried with him

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years old Assignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the past Book no. 44: Japan, 1281Mission objective: Napoleon is going back to 13th Century Japan, to the second Mongol invasion by Kublai Khan. But he is in for a huge shock – he is not going alone. His father Captain Smythe is going with him. In the most staggering revelation of the series, we discover that Captain Smythe was a Battle Boy almost 40 years ago!

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the pastMission 4: Battle Bust-up- The Battle of Issus, 322BC and the Battle of Kursk, 1943.- Mission objective: Two battles have become mixed up in one Battle Book! It's up to BB005 to break up the fight and put each army back in its right place.

CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years old Assignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the past* Book no. 17: The Battle of Crecy, France, 1336* Mission objective: The Battle of Crecy was one of the most decisive clashes of the Hundred Years War and BB005 is getting ready to meet the Black Prince – a mysterious figure from this war. But when he reaches the Special Reading Room Professor Perdu isn't there: Operation Overlord 09 is. And even worse, Battle Boy has a new SimulSkin.

The first two titles in a gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing new series – designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time travel, adventure, great stories, gadgets galore...(CLASSIFIED) MISSION 1: OPEN FIRE- Spain, 1587, Sir Francis Drake's ship- Mission objective: collect Drake's DNA for the Warrior Gene BankOPERATIVE PROFILE:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour)Mission motto: Spying on the past

The first two titles in a gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing new series – designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time travel, adventure, great stories, gadgets galore...(CLASSIFIED) MISSION 2: RED DEVIL DOWN- France, 1918, a field near the Somme River- Mission objective: Discover who shot down the World War One flying ace: Baron von Richthofen – the Red BaronOPERATIVE PROFILE:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour)Mission motto: Spying on the past