Tom and his companions have arrived in a strange new land - Tavania. Wizard Malvel's evil magic has enraged six terrifying new Beasts. To restore harmony, Tom must first face Convol the Cold-blooded Brute in a deadly desert duel...
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An extraordinary novel for anyone who's ever been curious from award-winning author Christopher Edge.
""A writer of genuine originality"" - Guardian
""Proves the theory that novels about science can be enormous fun. Give the man his own element on the periodic table of children's authors"" - The Times, Children's Book of the Week
When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. His parents are both scientists and they usually have all the answers. Dad mutters something about Albie's mum being alive and with them in a parallel universe.
So Albie finds a box, his mum's computer and a rotting banana, and sends himself through time and space to find her...
""A book with a big brain, big laughs and a big, big heart."" - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
""I have one complaint about this book. I wanted it to be longer"" - Samira Ahmed
Check out these other brilliant books from Christopher Edge:
Black Hole Cinema Club
Escape Room
Twelve Minutes to Midnight
The Jamie Drake Equation
The Matrix meets Oliver Twist, WARP: The Reluctant Assassin is the first of a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl.
It all began with the FBI and WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future - until now . . .
Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century and on the run from his evil master . . .
Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with . . .
Chevie Savano, the FBI's youngest and most impulsive special agent.
As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley and Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive and stop Garrick from returning to his own time - armed with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.
Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, and again at the energy of the humour - Sunday Times
Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart: this first book in the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast. - Publishers Weekly
From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK &
STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding
your way home ...
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
YOUNG QUILLS AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK
AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER
BOOK AWARD
'The Island at the End of Everything is such a fiercely
kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full
of light ... brilliant.' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children’s
fiction ... This is an enchanting book by a writer who fully
deserves the fuss that’s being made of her.' TELEGRAPH
'Beautiful' FRANCES HARDINGE
Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants –
including her mother – have leprosy.
Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests,
Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious
government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders
untouched by sickness are forced to leave.
Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and finds
a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead
her home before it's too late?
The fourth children’s novel by Times number
one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Awards
Children’s Book of the Year
From the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone,
The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark and
The Mercies – chosen for the Richard & Judy
Book Club
An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreaking
tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother
Old refurbished theatre, the Beryl, is re-opening. Days before opening
night, the ghost light - left on at night to appease the ghosts
of actors - is extinguished. Alice digs into the Beryl's past,
sleuthing in a network of dark backstage corridors and cobwebby
storage rooms. Gradually, she starts to uncover the hundred-year-old
secret of the theatre: a stolen diamond. Is the Beryl haunted
by a ghost - or a living thief?
BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND.
BEFORE THE BOY BECAME THE MAN.
James is back in Steve Cole's fourth and final blistering Young Bond adventure . . .
James is on home soil when he receives a package with a message from beyond the grave. The package’s mysterious contents put James at the heart of a long-running plot that, if it runs its course, will paint London’s streets red with blood. Not only will James have to fight to stay alive and save the country he loves, but to clear the Bond family name, which he holds so dear. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and James doesn’t know who he can trust . . .
Books in the series:
1. SHOOT TO KILL
2. HEADS YOU DIE
3. STRIKE LIGHTNING
4. RED NEMESIS
An amazing adventure featuring the World’s Finest Heroes, BATMAN and SUPERMAN! Fighting side by side, these super heroes have the power to defend Earth, while also building a great friendship. However, when the shape-shifting Clayface ignites a feud between SUPERMAN, BATMAN and THE FLASH, can anything stop The Battle of the Super Heroes? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for young readers.
It's James Bond's first day at Eton, and already he's met his first enemy. This is the start of an adventure that will take him from the school playing fields to the remote shores of Loch Silverfin and a terrifying discovery that threatens to unleash a new breed of warfare.
Spangles McNasty is a right horrid scallywag who likes to do yucky things like eat cold chips out of bins and fart in libraries. So it's no surprise that when the legendarily famous and very sparkly Diamond Skull pirate hat comes to Bitterly Bay Museum, Spangles and his best mate Sausage-face Pete want to get their thieving fingers on it. But they haven't reckoned on local boy and all-round good egg Freddie Taylor and his cunning plan to mix things up with a clever hat trick...
Laugh-out-loud silliness with zany pictures from Chris Mould make this story perfect for fans of Mr Gum and Tom Gates!
Alistair Fury can't possibly be forced to spend the summer cooped up in a caravan, and subject to the vagaries of his granny's bowels and the tortures of his big brother and sister, can he? Major revenge must be unleashed.
