A Little Lower Than Angels

Gabriel takes refuge from his master's cruelty with a band of travelling mystery players. His name and appearance suggest to the play-master a hoax miracle scam, which could make him rich. But miracles have to be handled with care, and in a time of plague, miracle-workers face dangers, which are just not worth the risk...

Oxford University Press

  

...A compelling narrative appealing young characters,
superbly vivid detail and and
exciting plot'

Grow Point

   
 

 

A Pack of Lies

When MCC Berkshire moves into the antiques shop, he turns life upside down for Ailsa and her mother. He sleeps on the old bed in the shop, and button-holes every potential customer with a special story, told just for them. But just who is MCC? And why does he tell such awful lies? Ailsa has never met anyone like this, but MCC cannot afford to become too involved, because MCC has a story all of his own.

Oxford University Press
Scholastic Press (US)

  

..."One of the warmest, funniest,most touching,and
above all surprising books you may ever read"

Touchdown, New Souch Wales
       
 
 

Gold Dust

Inez and her brother Maro are amazed to see a big hole being dug outside their father's shop. Their amazement grows as other holes appear in the main street. Then the rumours begin to spread: there is gold under the little town of Sierra Vazia. But as gold-hunters descend on the town to try their luck, life in the little town becomes increasingly unbearable. Inez and Maro, with the help of their samba-singing school- teacher, set out to save their home from the terrible symptoms of gold-fever.

Oxford University Press

 

..."Spell-binding from start to finish...
hauntingly drawn"

Books for Keeps
       
 
 

Plundering Paradise

Nathan must leave school. Tamo White is leaving of his own accord. He suggests that Nathan go with him - back to Madagascar where Tamo's father ruled as a pirate king. But what will the island hold for a British boy from a staunchly Christian background, and is it any place to take his sister, the mousy Maud?

Oxford University Press
Published as "The Pirate's Son"
in U.S Scholastic Press

  

..."Has the gift of making remote times
and places unfold before the readers
very eyes... What a novelist"

Indepenent

       
 
 

Forever X

When the Shepherds' car breaks down on their way to their summer holiday, the only place they can find to stay is Forever X, the hotel where every day is Christmas Day. Mr and Mrs Shepherd would like to give the festivities a miss: four- year-old Mel wants to enter into them heart and soul. Joy is not sure how she should react, but when she makes friends with Holly, the resident elf, she can't help being drawn into the strange Partridge household. Then the mysterious Mr Angel arrives, who has the power to ruin everything and seems bent on using it. Can old F.C. and the children foil him keep the police at bay?

Oxford University Press

 

..."a superbly written novel, both funny and illuminating"

School Librarian
       
 
 
 Casting the Gods Adrift

When Tutmose and his family arrive in Pharaoh Akhenaten’s new city, they are delighted to be taken under the ruler’s wing. But this pharaoh’s strange ideas about religion will change life for them all….
  
 

‘The stories, told from the perspective of a child whose situation elicits genuine interest and concern, are full of excitement and surprise.’

Times Educational Supplement
       
 
 
 The Stones Are Hatching

Phelim knows he is nothing out of the ordinary. His sister is always telling him so. Why, then , is he suddenly beset by strangers calling him by the wrong name and telling him he must attempt the impossible - that everything depends on him? The countryside is overrun with monsters so old that the world has forgotten their names. The washerwoman at the river predicts that he will soon be dead. But the girl with no shadow, the leaping madman and the 'Obby 'Oss will not let him give up. Phelim Green must keep his rendezvous with the Stoor Worm whose warmth, in waking, is causing the very stones under her to hatch.

Oxford University Press
Harper Collins (US)

 
 

..."McCaughrean is a superb storyteller,
and her tale is irresistible".

Times Educational Supplement

       
 
 
 The Kite Rider

Haoyou sees his father killed 'testing the wind' for a ship about to set sail - hauled aloft on a hatch- cover, just as if he were a kite. Horrific a place as the sky now seems, Haoyou is obsessed by its vastness, its dangers, its population of spirits. Somehow, it has become his fate to fly on the wind like his father, to man a kite. And when the circus of the Great Miao comes to town, it seems it is Haoyou's fate to travel with them into the very presence of Khublai Khan, Mogul conqueror, the unimagineable enemy of every Chinese patriot

Oxford University Press
Harper Collins (US)

  
  "....a wonderful saga, detail is
phenomenal but unobtrusive, the
narrative warm, sometimes humorous,
and consistently compelling"

Guardian Education
       
 
     
 
     
 
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