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Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
And to make matters worse, all sorts of people from the past begin to clamber through it. Now Billy - aided by his pet dog, Shakespeare - is in a race against time to close the wormhole and round up all the people who have slipped through it, before history is changed for ever! No pressure then?.
Author
Series
The Whale Road Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Aria
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
'A fast-paced, detailed and brilliantly written historical adventure which will appeal to fans of Bernard Cornwell, George R.R. Martin, and especially Theodore Brun' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY. The thrilling follow-up to Odin's Game.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen's jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Lily's already got plenty going on living with a moody teenage sister, two feral brothers and a messy baby sister. Mum and Gran are stressed to the max, both dads are out of the picture and the cats aren't exactly pulling their weight. But when she starts getting mixed-up warnings not to go on holiday to the tiny, safe Scottish island of Millport, her summer just gets weirder and weirder. The thing is, whoever's talking to Lily doesn't even seem to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Archie McBudge knows his lucky underpants must really work because when he and his mum are summoned to Honeystone Hall in the remote Scottish village of Dundoodle, they find Archie has inherited not only the enormous hall, but the whole of the world-famous McBudge Confectionery Company from Great-Uncle Archibald. That's a new home, a fortune and a lifetime's supply of treats rolled into one! But all is not well in Dundoodle, and when Archie reads...
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a world where superhero competition is fierce, Slugboy doesn't make the grade. No one wants help fighting bad guys from someone with a horrible habit of (quite literally) messing things up. He's so underrated, in fact, that when an evil mastermind devises a plan to capture all the other superheroes, Slugboy isn't even on his list. Now, Slug Boy has to use his not-so-super and oh-so-gross abilities to free the other superheroes and save the world....
Author
Series
The Fall Revolution volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists - and wants out. In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peace process" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives...
Author
Publisher
BC Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year, for as long as anyone can remember, the Mountain has moved a little northwards. But now it's moving in the opposite direction. And it's picking up speed. Pema is sent by his grandparents to consult the Sisters of the Snow, the Keepers of the Mountain, but his enquiries are met with stony denial. Singay, a rebellious apprentice Sister knows different and secretly shows Pema cracks in the rock. Then she invites him inside the Mountain where...
9) The sky road
Author
Series
The Fall Revolution volume 4
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past. A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age - her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenceless against the Sino-Soviet...
10) The stone canal
Author
Series
The Fall Revolution volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remember his life on Earth as Jonathan Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. This stranger also remembers one David Reid, who now serves as New Mars's leader. Long ago, it turns out, Wilde and Reid had shared ideals and fought over the same women. Moving from...
Author
Series
The Fall Revolution volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago. The post-humans' capacities are unknown? but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they punched a wormhole into Jovian space, and we know that the very surface of the...
12) Mog?s Christmas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Read by Geraldine Mcewan. It?s Christmas, and Mog?s house is full of strange noises and peculiar smells. Everyone is busy hanging holly and blowing up balloons, and where is that tree going??Mog is not happy. So she escapes to the roof, and there she stays?until, unexpectedly, she returns with a bump!Happy Christmas, Mog!This delightful audio recording is read by the Olivier and Tony award nominated, BAFTA winning actress Geraldine McEwan.
14) The secret ruby
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Rose and Rui are back with Bahula the monkey in tow, and a brand-new, action-packed mystery to solve? The pair must travel to Jaipur to return Mr Gupta?s ruby to his family. But unbeknownst to them, they are being followed by a member of the Brotherhood of the Black Sun, and dark secrets await them when they dock in India?.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Dina has inherited her mother's gift: she is a Shamer, able to see a person's most guilty secrets just by gazing in their eyes. But sometimes her gift feels more like a curse. Nobody seems to want a friend who can see their deepest shame. But when Dina's mother is called to Dunark Castle to uncover the truth about a terrible crime, Dina must come to terms with her power, and quickly - or let her mother fall prey to the vicious dragons of Dunark. An...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Dina has the Shamer's Gift - one look into her eyes, and none can mask their guilt or hide their shame. Now even her brother, Davin, no longer dares to meet her gaze. He burns with a desire to take up the sword and avenge the crimes committed against his family. But these are treacherous times and Dina's life is in terrible danger. Kidnapped by the corrupt Valdracu, she is forced to use her gift as a weapon. And Davin becomes her only hope of escape......
17) The shamer's war
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Lord of Dunark will stop at nothing in his persecution of Shamers, and he is determined to crush any community that shelters them. Those struggling to resist his cruel power have realised that hiding won't work any more. It's time to fight back. But as preparations for the rebellion begin, Dina starts to have doubts - can she really be part of a plan to unleash war? There must be another way, but can she find it before her world is torn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. When Chief Harald...
19) The silver hand
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Education
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This brand new, thrilling adventure from bestselling 'Horrible Histories' author Terry Deary brings the closing days of the First World War to life. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and John Boyne. It's 1918 and the Great War is entering its final phase. In northern France, young Aimee has just found out that her mother is part of a spy network working with the British. After reluctantly befriending Marius, a German boy who has been left behind...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. In the humid depths of the African jungle, a 30-foot python plots to rid himself of his rival, a wily old crocodile. And, amid the heat and dust of the Punjab, the snake-charmer Hussein escapes into the forest on the elephant that he trained when a mahout in his youth. Told with the dry wit and unsentimental precision Patrick O'Brian came to be...
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