You're in the middle of one of the most unpredictable natural disasters - an earthquake. Will you: experience an earthquake far from civilization in rural Alaska? Be trapped in a large city during an earthquake? Fight to survive during an earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that follows it?
One dawn, a fiery comet appears over the city. The Great Emperor Montezuma commands Chantico's uncle, the soothsayer, Ahcambal, to explain the meaning of it. When Ahcambal cannot come up with an answer, he is thrown into prison to be executed. What can Chantico do to save his uncle? Luckily, Chantico is not an ordinary boy - he has the gift of second sight. He uses his own skills to come up with a cunning plan to save his Uncle. But can he do it in time?
Before he wrote 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions. Four to be exact. This is the account of the second question.
In the fading town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl.
Is the girl a runaway? Or was she kidnapped? Was she seen last at the grocery store? Or could she have stopped at the diner? Is it really any of your business?
In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent. You’ll laugh only if you find humour in gothic and mysterious things involving detectives and crime solving.
Lemony’s other literary outings in, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ have sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey. And in the future things are poised to get much worse, thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. You have been warned.
Have you read all four mysterious titles in the Wrong Questions series?
‘Who Could That Be at the This Hour?’
‘When Did You See Her Last?’
‘Shouldn’t You Be in School?’
‘Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?'
Author Lemony Snicket was born before you were and is likely to die before you as well. He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot. He grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it. Until recently, he was living somewhere else. He is a broken man, wracked with misery and despair as a result of writing 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'. He spends his days wandering the countryside weeping and moaning and his evenings eating hastily-prepared meals.
Artist Seth has portrayed suspicious circumstances and shady characters in much of his work. He is a multi-award-winning cartoonist, author and artist, whose works include Palookaville and Clyde Fans.
This is a story about a group of children and their dogs on an outing. But what starts out as a peaceful Summer morning stroll, soon ends up as a slippery wild goose chase.
Princess Ellie is pony-mad! And she hates boring royal rules. She can't wait to go camping with her best friend, Kate, and her ponies, Moonbeam and Rainbow. There'll be no servants, no governess and - best of all - no rules! But when she hears strange noises in the night, Ellie starts to get scared. Will she solve the moonlight mystery?
Geronimo and his family are deep in the Amazon jungle, hunting for the legendary Ruby of Fire. But some dangerous mice are hot on their tails, and the quest soon becomes a race against time. Can the Stiltons prevent the stone from falling into the wrong hands?
Get ready to read! LITTLE RED ROBINS are ideal for sharing and reading together. Jonny and Tommy Atomic's dad is the world's most famous superhero, Captain Atomic. But while he is off saving the world, the boys have to stay home because they don't have superpowers. But soon the boys discover they have powers too!
When Candice finds a letter addressed to her grandmother in an old
attic in South Carolina, she isn't sure she should read it. But
the letter describes an injustice that happened decades ago, and
the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle.
Can Candice decipher the clues to find the fortune, before the answers
slip into the past?
When Beck Granger follows a mysterious clue to the town of Broome in Northern Australia, it is just the beginning of an adventure that will force him into some of his toughest survival challenges yet! The search for clues takes Beck into the heart of the Outback, where he must battle raging storms, ravenous crocodiles, cunning villains.
