
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.
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Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.
When a strange white sand invades the harbor town of Wellow and land begins shifting, Verity Gallant finds clues in ancient books and, with her friends, tries to stop the Earth Witch’s evil plan to deprive the world of happiness as she was once robbed of her true love .
The day Finn Maguire discovers his dad bludgeoned to death in a pool of blood, his dreary life is turned upside down. Prime suspect in his father’s murder, Finn must race against time to clear his name and find out who hated his dad enough to kill him.
Scouring the sordid, brutal London underworld for answers, exposing dark family secrets, and facing danger at every turn, Finn is about to learn that it’s the people you trust who can hit you the hardest. . .
Crusher is this year’s most talked-about debut thriller.
When sixteen-year-old Billie Paradise unexpectedly inherits her grandmother’s seaside house she gains not only the opportunity to move with her mother and half brother from their cramped London apartment but, perhaps, also to uncover family secrets, including the identity of her father.
When Wilma Tenderfoot, the feisty and determined assistant to the world’s greatest living detective, and her beagle Pickle, find a mummified body buried on the grounds of the gothic mansion Blackheart Hoo, they seek to identify the body and solve the mysteries of a key, some buried treasure, and a kidnapping.
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family’s estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
The Game of Triumphs lies in ruins, but Cat and her friends must enter the Arcanum once again to oust the Master of Misrule, a corrupt leader who threatens to unleash the power of the game into London and the world at large.
Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past? Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl – she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her job, she goes to live with the Plushes – a slightly Bohemian family who run a Confidential Inquiry Agency. Verity helps them solve cases and slowly becomes one of the family. But patches of the truth about her past begin to surface, along with the special talent that Professor Plush is helping her explore. Who were her real parents? Is she the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter? Who is sending poison pen letters about Verity to the Plushes? Who doesn’t want them to learn the truth about Verity Sparks?
The Chosen, Tormod, aided by Aine and Bertrand, returns to France seeking other Gifted members of the Templar Order and striving to recover the relics he is bound to protect, while also hoping to find and rescue his brother, Torquil.
Bullied and despised for being human-sized, a young giant demonstrates his bravery and cleverness in a series of adventures.