Synopsis: It has been twenty years since Eager lived with the Bell family and the world has moved on. Robots have been replaced by sophisticated, humaniform animats, but robots with free will - robots like Eager and his sister - have been declared illegal. On one of his occasional visits to the Bells, Eager discovers that his nephew, Jonquil, has tagged along. At first he is worried tha ...

Synopsis: The Nomana are the guardians of the one, true god; invincible warrior-monks blessed with mysterious powers and dedicated to the protection of the fortress known as the Nom. Seeker, Morning Star and the Wildman are three young people, each wishing to join the Nomana for their own reasons. Rejected by the order, they set out together to prove their worth by journeying into the h ...

Synopsis: Twig is not like the other woodtrolls; he is too tall, too skinny, he doesn't have hair all over his body and, unlike any other woodtroll, he strays from the path. When he learns that he is a foundling, he wanders further than ever before, and stumbles into a world of weird creatures and deadly danger. In all his travels, he finds himself always driven onwards, searching f ...

Synopsis: Seeker and his friends have been accepted to train at the Nom, but all is not well. The Wildman's desire for peace drives him away from his goals and Morning Star begins to question whether she has the makings of a Nomana at all. Seeker, meanwhile, discovers that he is all too suited, when he finds within himself the most terrible thing of all: a power without limit. But e ...

Synopsis: Matt Cruse is a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora. Born in the air, sailing the sky has been his life, and so it stings when his place as junior sailmaker is taken by a booksmart rookie. Then he meets Kate de Vries, a wealthy passenger with a quest. Kate takes Matt into her confidence and an unlikely friendship grows between them, but can Matt be sure that she sees him as a f ...

Synopsis: Malva, the Princess of Galnicia, has been raised by a tutor who has instilled in her a love of freedom, but her impending marriage to a neighbouring prince seems set to put paid to any chance of a life of her own. To escape from the destiny laid out before her, she flees her home, unwittingly walking into an ambush and plunging her homeland into turmoil. Orpheus McBott, a youn ...

Synopsis: 1920s rural Ireland - a country of unrest, poverty and few opportunities for girls beyond marriage. When Ellie's father drowns and she and her sister are sent to New York to join their uncle she thinks her chance of a career has arrived, but she soon finds that she is even more restricted. She takes matters into her own hands and begins to chase her dream.

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Fourteen-year-old Caz and her friend Lucy do the Creepy Thing. It’s a bizarre version of ‘chicken’. They break in to houses at the dead of night challenging each other to do a Creepy. You have to approach a sleeping person in the dark, and put your face one inch away from the sleeper’s face for a count of fifteen seconds. One night, Caz breaks into the house of a lonely ...

Synopsis: A giant mosquito – the Ganges Red – a creature of legend – who could resist the possibility of actually finding such an animal? It is a hint that this creature might actually exist, that tempts young Ashley Reeves, aspiring journalist, to travel to the Lake District to meet the mysterious Mathers. It all seems so innocuous – but by the end of his brief ...

Synopsis: A girl is found murdered. In just twenty-four hours Nathan’s world falls to bits and those closest to him become the focus of mistrust. A bloody scratch, a dead dog and a broken neck all point in one direction but can Nathan prove the police wrong? Time is running out and Nathan still can’t decide what to believe.

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