For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom—ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone. Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded ...
Northern Lights&,nbsp,introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra''s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In&,nbsp,The ...
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn''t want that to happen, just the same.Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands ...
"Need it be said — the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." Times Literary Supplement "A brilliantly ingenious story." Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald "Ingenuity at its height ...
WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN''S BOOK PRIZE 2019 Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child''s perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn''t always make ...
Winner of the Children''s Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award Winner of the London Book Fair Children''s Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, Children''s category Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal ''I loved The Explorer'' Jacqueline ...
Kathy ist einunddreißig Jahre alt und arbeitet als Betreuerin. Wann immer sie durch England fährt und hinter Pappeln ein halb verborgenes Herrenhaus sieht, muss sie an Hailsham denken, das Internat, in dem sie ihre Kindheit und Jugend verbrachte. Unwillkürlich steigen dann in ihr Erinnerungen an Tommy ...
WARNING! Not suitable for children under 36 months because of small parts. Choking Hazard This book includes three fire-engine stories with a twist! Each story has a sturdy track embedded in the pages which the accompanying wind-up fire engine toy can then be placed upon to follow around and bring the ...
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman''s first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It''s special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Descr ibed by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline ...
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that sh ape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood ...
Delightful and witty, this is a simple story of mistaken identity! Peter and Paul are the best of friends, but when Peter gets lost in a terrible storm he can''t find Paul anywhere. With the help of a big blue whale Puffin Peter sets off to find him. They find all kinds of birds that match Peter''s description ...
A guide to the world of the Shadowhunters from the international bestselling series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. The essential guide for all young shadowhunters. Since the thirteenth century, the Shadowhunters’ Codex has been the one and only manual for Shadowhunters looking to brush ...
The final book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy, this new foiled edition of Mockingjay is available for a limited period of time. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she\''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she\''s still not safe. The ...
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of SHIVER (9781407115009), LINGER (9781407121086) and FOREVER (9781407121116) will love this new quartet! Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would have them bear.'''' Attributed to ...
