Synopsis: Ten-year-old Ayesha lives in the war-torn city of Beirut. After the disappearance of her father and the death of her mother, she and her two younger brothers are cared for by their grandmother. When granny runs out of the medicine that is keeping her alive, Ayesha sets off on a hazardous journey across no man’s land to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

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Synopsis: This is a collection of the three volumes of the trilogy in one book. They have been printed separately before. The story is a fantasy about a group of young people who become powerful in the world as a king, a fire wielder and the talking cat called Fleabag and a lady knight. There are an assortment of other characters that join the story in its different volumes including so ...

Synopsis: Born in the forest of the barn owls, Soren loves life’s little pleasures, like the feel of a centipede pattering down his throat. But evil lurks in the owl world, and threatens to change the course of Soren’s life forever.

Review: Kathryn Lasky successfully transports the reader into a world of owls in this novel. Her narrative and descriptions are so ...

Synopsis: Welcome to Castle Bones. A dead cool place to hang out.

Very, very loud rock star Eric Thrashmettle has just bought Castle Bones – the world’s coolest recording studio. Even by rock-star standards, it’s weird – as his kids Buddy and Lou are about to discover. Duels with vampires, cauldrons that turn to blood and evil curses are just some of the h ...

Synopsis:Molly and her best mate Rocky find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, when they are snatched by a power-crazed, time travelling maharajah. Jealous of Molly and fearful that she may become a great hypnotist the Maharajah time travels her away to nineteenth century India. There Molly experiences the trauma of coming face to face with four younger Mollys, fast forwar ...

Synopsis: Paint Me A Poem is a collection of poetry, inspired by paintings and sculptures at the Tate Gallery. Most of the poems are written by Grace Nichols, but there are also a number of poems composed by primary school children who visited the Tate during Nichols' year of residency there.

Review: This is an original book which provides lots of inspiration ...

Synopsis: Feedback Metal rock star Eric has just bought Castle Bones – the world’s coolest haunted recording studio! However, ghosts and ancient curses may be the least of his worries, as weird new arrivals to the castle threaten to destroy both his music and his recording contract. Buddy and Lou must act fast if they are to save their father’s band from disaster!

Synopsis: The Temple of the Oracle is supposed to be the place where those of all classes learn to serve their pushy and contentious gods as equals. As Bryn, a stonecutter's daughter, discovers, it is in fact a hotbed of corruption and privilege at the centre of a conspiracy to pervert the power of the Oracle to political ends.

Review: The Light of the Oracle has a gr ...

Synopsis: The lands of Bellandra and Sliviia face each other across the Minwenda Ocean. The one is a client kingdom to might Archeld, once conquered now joined by marriage; the other is a piratical empire where nobles are free to scar the face of any slave as they please. In Sliviia, the unmarked slave-girl Maeve flees from her terrifying and uncanny new owner in search of her father and ...

Synopsis: Corydon is a monster, afflicted with a goat's foot and outcast from his village. He lives a lonely life until he is captured by pirates for their freakshow and meets another monster, the gorgon Medusa. Leading a breakout from the freakshow, Corydon and Medusa flee into the mountains, but the release of so many monsters attracts an inevitable backlash - a crusade of the grea ...