Ellora McGee has finally settled into her new school, yet the true excitement is only just beginning. In the series’ second instalment, Ellora and her friends embark on a new adventure and must learn to work together to overcome the challenges they face.
Ellora McGee has just moved to Ballyshee and is starting a new school. As though that isn't stressful enough, she also is just coming to terms with being a Trainee Banshee – the first banshee in her family since her great-great-granny Norah!
The stakes are high when Lola and her fairy friend Larch discover a planned eco-pod resort that threatens the forest and fairy clan magic itself. Jealous fairy Euphorbia Splurge has cast a nasty spell which has given human’s the idea for their greedy plan. Lola’s Mum, a forest ranger, and Grandma are concerned about the plants and animals but don’t know about Lola’s friendship with Larch – although Lola’s little brother, Noah nearly reveals her secret!
Ben and Finn have lived in North Dublin all their lives, gone to the same schools,
had the same friends and shared the same expectations. But the modern world being as unstable as it is, those lives are suddenly turned upside down when their parents lose their jobs, and the family has to up sticks and move.
For lovers of fairy stories, Lola and Larch Save the Sunshine Spell offers readers all the exciting elements of the classic fairytale, with a modern child protagonist, Lola, at its centre. Featuring an enchanting forest, a magical fairy village, classic good and evil characters and an adventure quest, the story structure is reassuringly familiar.
This first book in a new magical early- reader series is a beautiful tale of friendship, courage and belonging. Immediately, the prologue places the reader into the action. The threat in the story is gripping, enhanced further by the atmospheric illustrations. The mixture of the dark background illustrating night-time with the beams of light from torches and headlights pulls the reader into the world of the story immediately.
Rosaleen Darke has enough on her plate; her beloved Mamó has passed away, her parents are working all hours, her old friends have left her behind and her new classmates are being less than friendly. Into all of this lands an ice giant who wordlessly entrusts her with a powerful (possibly evil) stone. Very quickly, Rose realises that there might have been a lot more truth to her Mamó’s old stories of magic than she had realised.
Mara and her father, Gabriel, have lived a nomadic existence for as long as she can remember, moving from place to place in their van and struggling to make ends meet. This has always been Mara’s normal, and she’s never questioned it. Until she makes a discovery – a bundle of letters addressed to someone called the Time Tider, and that someone is her dad.
Tess de Sousa is no ordinary orphan. As a baby, she was left in the care of the kind and loving teachers of Ackerbee’s Home for Lost and Foundlings. Knowing nothing of her parentage or background, Tess yearns to learn more about her mysterious origins when a man claiming to be a distant relative comes to adopt her and take her away to a new life at Roedeer Lodge. But on discovering the truth of her past, she realizes she is the key to a terrible plan that may bring destruction to her own world and perhaps to worlds beyond…
Emmeline Widget has never left Widget Manor – and that’s the way she likes it. But when her scientist parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself being packed off on a ship to Paris. On board, she is befriended by an urchin stowaway called Thing. But before they can reach their destination they are kidnapped by the sinister Dr Siegfried Bauer and whisked away to the ice fields of Greenland, where Dr Bauer plans to summon a legendary monster from the deep.
