What would you do if a red button in your kitchen cupboard could transport you to a spaceship? Press it, of course! Created by the award-winning author and illustrator Neal Layton.
A captivating fantasy for middle grade readers - power,
corruption and friendship collide in this enthralling adventure!
'a captivating fantasy ... This enthralling adventure will
make readers yearn for their own masks and powers' GUARDIAN
'Hoghton's exciting premise is enriched by the Venetian setting,
where the deceptive cobbled streets, maze of rivers and idiosyncratic
islands make it easy to slip between a realist register
and fantasy' THE IRISH TIMES
Aribella lives in Venice, the daughter of an impoverished lacemaker.
But she has a secret: when angered, sparks shoot from her
fingertips. Afraid, Aribella leaves her old life behind, only to
discover the world of the Cannovacci: warriors with magical skills,
sworn to defeat the strange spectres menacing the city …
• A captivating fantasy by debut author Anna Hoghton,
a young and thrilling new voice for middle-grade readers.
• Original and arresting storytelling in
the captivating setting of historical Venice.
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Themes of power, corruption, friendship and celebrating
your true self.
Jack Mattingly is a genius.
He has an IQ of 170.
He speaks fluent Mandarin and Latin.
And he can calculate the square root of 1,673,549 in his head.
But when Jack's parents' car is hi-jacked, with him inside it, for once he's as clueless as the rest of us. The car-jacker doesn't know Jack's in the car - yet. But it's only a matter of time before he's discovered. And then anything could happen. Only one thing's for sure: Jack's in for the thrill-ride of his life . . .
A high-octane adventure from the winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.
What if your new best friend was a ghost?
Getting struck by lightning whilst huddling under a tree isn't exactly the way Alisha and Theo would have chosen to get out of sports day . . .
Surviving the strike makes them see life differently. It also makes them notice Doug and Lizzie. Struck by lightning under that same tree on the common in 1975, the two teenagers have been hanging out there ever since.
Doug and Lizzie are funny, clever, brave - and quite happy about making friends with a pair of ten-year-olds. OK, fair point, they are dead, and Doug's trousers are worryingly flared. But you can't have everything.
But something sinister is going on at school - although only Theo and Alisha seem to be able to see it. What can it mean when ragged faceless entities keep staring in through the windows? Not all ghosts are friendly like Doug and Lizzie . . . but are these phantoms really the harbingers of doom for all the kids at Beechwood Junior?
A fun and fast-paced ghostly mystery with lightning strikes, floating phantoms, and four fantastic friends just trying to get on with their everyday lives . . . or deaths . . .
From the prize-winning author of Frozen in Time, the Shapeshifter series, and many more!
Kids who love video games will love this new 5-book series about 12-year old Jesse Rigsby and the wild adventures he encounters getting sucked into different video games.
Jesse Rigsby doesn't even like video games, yet here he is trapped in the video game Full Blast. His dumb friend Eric probably has something to do with this, but Jesse doesn't have time to worry about that now because he's got a blaster stuck to his arm, a man-sized praying mantis thing chasing him and . . . it that the Statue of Liberty taking off like a rocket ship? Something weird is going on, and Jesse had better figure out what it is fast, because he's about to be trapped in the game for good!
The second dragon adventure from the legendary author
of Inkheart, Cornelia Funke - over 1 million English language
copies of DRAGON RIDER sold worldwide, and now a major movie
on Sky Cinema!
'A warm-hearted dream of a book.' THE GUARDIAN
on Dragon Rider
The last winged horses
are on the brink of extinction.
Three foals lie curled in their eggs in a sanctuary for threatened
creatures, where a young dragon rider lives with his silver
dragon. The foals are ill, and the pair volunteer to seek the only
cure: a Griffin's feather.
But Griffins, with the heads of eagles and the bodies of lions,
are a dragon's fiercest enemy, and live far across the world in
the sweltering jungle. A dangerous and exciting adventure begins
...
The second book in the bestselling Dragon Rider
series by the queen of middle-grade fantasy, Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider has now been adapted for the big
screen in a major animation with a stellar cast including Felicity
Jones and Patrick Stewart, now available on Sky Cinema
Features magical illustrations by Cornelia Funke herself
Continue the adventure with book 3, The Aurelia Curse
Scott, Jack and Emily are excited when they are invited to go and watch the testing of a top secret, super-advanced, prototype car. It's just like something out of a James Bond movie - and a secret agent is exactly what's required when the car mysteriously vanishes! Luckily, the friends are on hand to find the car, catch the culprits and save the day - with a little help from Drift the dog, of course!
