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Series
Publisher
Sunbird Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
13-year-old Richard 'Trick' Hope is used to getting into trouble, but not like this. After an argument with his dad about him hanging out with the wrong crowd, Trick is furious. He sees his friends that night, but they get into trouble with the police and are chased across London. Trick hides in the vaults of the British Museum, where the pendant he always wears - the only memory he has of his mother - starts to pull him in further. A blinding flash...
Author
Series
Blackwell pages volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Matt Thorsen, and Laurie and Fen Brekke have managed to assemble as many of the descendents of the Norse gods as possible. They've found Thor's hammer, and his shield. Together, they're ready to face down the monsters bringing the end of the world. Only when Fen is pulled to be the head of the pack of wulfenkind, and they find out that only Matt can enter the arena to fight the Midgaard serpent, the friends realise they can't take...
4) Physik
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a queen who lived 500 years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This is an enchanting tale of courage and sacrifice for young readers and adults by the wildly popular George R.R. Martin, author of 'A Song of Ice and Fire', the series that inspired HBO's Emmy Award-winning 'Game of Thrones'. Illustrations by acclaimed artist Luis Royo enrich this captivating and heartwarming story of a young girl and her dragon.
7) The lost
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Series
Appears on list
Description
James Patterson brings the fifth and final book in the 'Witch & Wizard' saga to a head by exposing the nature of power - and what it means for the heroes that have it. Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's greatest threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is The One, as well as his wicked father and son. But just as the heroic witch and wizard start to settle into their new roles in governance, a deadly crime wave grips their...
9) Mirrorstorm
Author
Publisher
Clipper [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Mel, Ludo and Wren are battling a new enemy - the sinister order of Ters, who have created storms over the city of Vlam. After a cry for help from a land in the Mirrorscape, the three friends go back into that strange and unpredictable world.
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 9
Description
A collection of all the previous short stories and novellas published along with 10 new short stories.
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Series
Description
'The Secret Commonwealth' sees Lyra, now 20 years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right. Theirs is...
12) Mirrorscape
Author
Publisher
Clipper [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Enter the Mirrorscape - an amazing world limited only by the artist's imagination. This is a thrilling adventure with fantastical creatures in an incredibly visual secret world.
13) La Belle Sauvage
Author
Series
The Book of Dust volume 1
Description
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dm̆on, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua . . .
15) Spellbound
Author
Publisher
Chivers Children's Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Description
How far would you go to get rid of an annoying brother? Athene meets the Gloam, who cast a spell on everyone who knew her little brother so that they forget all about him. However, it is Athene who cannot forget her brother.
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Series
Discworld volume 41
Description
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land....
19) The wee free men
Author
Publisher
ISIS
Pub. Date
2010
Description
There's trouble on the Aching farm - a monster in the river,a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmare spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies. Tiffany's got to get him back.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Aileen was supposed to grow up magical - just like the other women in her family. Unfortunately, she's just found out that the magic seems to have skipped a generation. But that's not her biggest problem right now. In her world, there are four Islands of Chaldea. The largest and most magical island has been cut off from the other three for decades - and is slowly draining the magic from them. But now a prophecy has come to light. Someone from Aileen's...