For the past year, Aneka's spells have backfired, and her wand licence suspended, so she can't rely on magic. The problem is that she needs to stop the evil Lord NoAir from destroying Earth.An elf and a werewolf pose as allies, but Aneka is wary. With such an important quest, she needs help and must decide who to trust.

'This book is so good you won't blunking believe it!' Tom Fletcher'Hilariously funny and inventive, and I love the extraordinary creatures and the one thirty-sixth troll protagonist...' Cressida Cowell'A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, amazerous magical adventure. Comedy Gold.' Francesca Simon‘This hotel gets five stars from me’ Liz Pichon'A splundishly swashbungling tale of trolls, goblin...

Nin had never liked Wednesdays, but this one took the biscuit. On this Wednesday she woke up to find that it was raining buckets and that her brother had ceased to exist.Nin realizes she is the only person to remember Toby because whoever took him is about to make her disappear too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr. Strood. With his spindle, he draws all memories of Nin out of her mother's head. She escapes to the Drift, a land filled with the fabulous and the d...

A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games'? You'll love this.A Game of War so far:Ally flies and dad shoots. She’s got a gift for flying, always has, even before she joined the Game.The Game?A weekly contest between slaves, winner takes all, losers get to walk home, assuming they survive that i...

A wonderfully strange yet poignant tale of accepting the truth about oneself.Magrit lives in an abandoned cemetery. She is as forgotten as the tiny graveyard that surrounds her. One night a passing stork drops a strange bundle into the graveyard. Master Puppet, her friend and advisor, tells her it is an awful, ugly, terrible thing and that she should get rid of it. But Magrit has other ideas.

Moving from Stockholm to an isolated pine plantation in northern Sweden is bad enough, but when the snows come early and all links between the Strombergs and the outside world are cut off, it gets worse. With only a grudging housekeeper and increasingly withdrawn parents for company, there is nothing to do but to explore the old plantation house. Anything to stay out of the endless pine trees pressing in on them. But soon it becomes clear that the danger within the old plantation house is ...

The first book in the hilarious epic Witches at War! series."Seriously funny!" The IndependentThe headline in The Cackler is grim. Old Biddy Vicious, the Most Superior High and Wicked Witch and owner of the Black Wand of Ohh Please Don't Turn Me Into Aaaaarghhh…Ribbett is dead. But witches like their news on the dark side and there is great anticipation in the witching world. After all, there will need to be a new leader and a diabolical competition to find out who is to be...

Part six of A Game of War blows Ally’s world right open as she realises just how big the universe is and wonders whether she’ll live to see it.Just when Ally thought she’d escaped the Atrile…Ally and Stem have broken out of Station Nephal and are on their way to Earth, but a brief stop at Gateway brings them face to face with their greatest enemies. The Atrile have long memories and big ships and won’t stop until Ally and her friends are dead.Gatewa...

When Will finds himself in hospital, but unable to make anyone see or hear him, he realises that he never made it home from his first date with the school hottie. Knocked off his bike in a road traffic accident, Will is now officially dead - and a ghost. But somehow his best mate, Dougie, can still see him, and, once they've exhausted all the comic possibilities of being invisible, they decide to delve into the truth behind a school rumour - whether there really is an unhappy spirit haunti...

Kenssie is a demon who feeds from secrets. Lately pickings have been slim, and she has grown so weak that her shield of invisibility is slipping. As the servant of a demon who eats embarrassment she already feels like she's the laughing stock of the demonic world. But the scorn of someone who thinks that Hawaiian shirts are the height of cool is the least of her worries.A powerful fear demon is dead set on making her his slave, a position that carries seriously short life expectanc...

Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice.'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power that will reward adult as well as teenage readers.' Adelaide Advertiser'Ten more compelling stories from the author of the much-lauded Black Juice. Taut, vivid, original: another winner.' The Horn Book, USA'I haven't read su...

In a world where magic is believed to no longer exist, Leah secretly wishes she was free to choose the course of her own life and not tied to royal duties. Her constant wishing draws the attention of the Demon Lord, Belosh; he gifts her with magic. But, instead of longed-for freedom, she finds she is now an instrument of revenge against Belosh's half-mortal son.With the lives of her beloved family under threat, Leah has no choice but to do Belosh's bidding. Conscious o...