This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead - this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smithers' ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.
At the Wings & Co. Fairy Detective Agency, Emily Vole and her friends are beginning to worry. It's five months since their official opening and they still haven't had one case. Then local landowner Sir Walter Cross dies suddenly and mysteriously. The detectives suspect fairy meddling. And when Mr Rollo the tailor mysteriously loses everything and Pan Smith's wedding plans are ruined the night before her big day, they're convinced there must be magic at play. Now they have not one, but three pickled herrings to deal with! Can they solve the mystery of who is stealing people's luck before the meddling fairy goes too far?
""I've got you, and you've got me - so we'll be all right . . .""
One day, adventurous Mouse determines to set off to the bright lights of the spectacular city, accompanied by his friend Bear. But the city is full of distractions and dangers, and Mouse might need his steadfast friend more than he realises . . .
A follow-up to The Marvellous Moon Map, this is Teresa and David's second lyrical and atmospheric tale of Mouse, Bear, and their touching friendship.
Things in the town of Ashcrumb are getting weird. Or just weirder. Misty Gordon is a young teen girl, whose parents own the Dearly Departed Antiques store, complete with a business van (an old ice cream truck complete with trilling songs) that says ""D.E.A.D."" on the side of it: ""Deceased's Estate and Antique Dealer."" After her parents buy estates, they put up the deceased's valuables for sale in the store. One day when accompanying her father to an estate of a recently departed medium for ghosts, Misty discovers that, via a notebook and a pair of eyeglasses she discovers, she can see ghosts! And solve mysteries. With the help of her new powers and her best friend Yoshi, Misty learns that her hometown, a small village in New England, was settled not by respectable colonists, but by pirates! And that the ghosts of the pirates have returned to find the golden statues which they lost centuries ago. The statues give the owner mystical powers over nature's elements. Who will find them first - Misty or the pirates?
Wicked demon-boy Oba is raising an army of the dead to attack Egypt. Only one boy can stop him... Young Pharaoh Akori must venture into the dark and deadly Underworld to battle the fearsome Falcon God, and try to make it back out alive.
Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning and training horses one day. When she and her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence, they decide to follow Velvet's dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed to ride in the race?
