The ship’s setting of the third book in the Geomancer series creates the ideal space for camaraderie among the women who crew it. As the author observes; ‘perhaps a shared year aboard a ship was as good as a shared childhood on land’. In The Ship of Strays, more than its predecessors two protagonists have equal presence, and the focus on Ysolda, the trilogy’s heroine is widened to give parity to Eira; the Wolf Queen’s daughter.
When planet Earth faces an attack from an alien galaxy, a species called the Onni seeks help from the Global Council of Earth. To fight this common enemy, children are recruited to become space champions by completing trials. Kola is keen to take part as he has always been interested in space and believes this will help progress treatment for his sister who has Sickle Cell Disease.
Aaand we’re back live on Clipper FM with Kofi, Kelvin and their gang, for our third installation of cooking up raps and manning a secret radio station. Only, it’s not so secret anymore! EVERYONE knows Clipper FM – but what the audience doesn’t know is that thirteen-year-old Kofi is orchestrating everything!
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Thirteen-year-old Gwen Clayton-Fenn moves into her late grandmother’s old house with her younger siblings after their mother’s death. The old house is situated on Gloam Island and is being looked after by their stepfather. The house – once a place of summer memories, has fallen into decay, filled with strange noises and creeping mouldy walls. The island itself is reachable only by causeway, its weather is damp and oppressive. If that’s not enough of creepiness, an arrival of the new babysitter, Esme brings something sinister to the siblings’ lives …
This book is the third in the Goldfish Boy series which revisits the homes of Matthew, Melody and Jake from Chestnut Close.
Bea, her older sister Hannah and her younger brother Dom are forced to flee from home when they find themselves in dangerous war zones having to make important decisions about where to go and who to trust. Their goal is to safely get to the embassy and reunite with their father, but will they be able to follow their plan?
Grieving the death of her father, Ava moves with her mum to Crawford, her grandparents’ home. The town is edged by forest and beset by crows, messengers who straddle the physical and spirit worlds. In return for guiding the dead to the afterlife, the birds demand payment in the form of memories, the life stories of those who are passing. When Ava’s grandmother begins to forget things, and Ava meets a strange, otherworldly boy who performs rituals with the crows, she must choose how far she will go to retrieve her beloved Nana’s memories.
Escape from Amritsar is a gripping adventure set during the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar, India. Amritsar is a city brimming with tension as the people revolt against the brutality of British rule. Against this backdrop of fear and civil unrest, twelve-year-old Arjan Singh learns that his father has been falsely charged with serious crimes and faces a perilous quest if he is to rescue him.
This quirky fact-filled book is packed with endless possibilities and describes instances of rarely heard historic events in fascinating detail. Exploring everything from epic fails, which resulted in disasters, it also describes surprising and extraordinary opportunities stumbled upon accidently, which have benefited the world in which we live.
