This morning, I woke up on the ceiling …So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school....

The first in a series of scary tall tales from award-winning children’s novelist Philippa Dowding.Why is Grandpa acting so weird? And why are there so many giant flies?Jake spends every summer on his grandpa’s farm. But this year, things are a little weird. First, there are huge flies everywhere. Second, Grandpa is acting kind of funny. And third, Jake’s friend Kate keeps trying to scare him with creepy stories. Last year’s tale about the swamp cre...

Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature — TextWinner of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book AwardFirefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop.

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are six spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins...

This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well since his nemesis, the cruel The Collector, is lurking – he once owned Gargoth and wants him back. The story continues in The Gargoyle Overhead, in which Gargoth is reunited with his oldest friend, Ambergine. Finally, in The Gargoyle at the...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.IncludesJake and the Giant HandJake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s ...

2017 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book • 2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Diamond Willow Award — ShortlistedThe second instalment in a series of scary tall tales from acclaimed children’s novelist Philippa Dowding.I will never leave this car, the back seat reeks of everything my little brother has ever eaten, and that thing is still out there …Myles and his family have been driving for four day...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark.IncludesJake and the Giant HandJake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s f...

”I'm Mann, just Mann.”The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ...The children outside the dome of Oculum — Mann, Cranker and others raised by Grannie — live amo...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are five spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begin...

The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series.The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn GoldenGwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendol...

What do you do when a 400-year-old gargoyle moves into your backyard? Especially when no one else but you knows he's ALIVE? Twelve-year-old Katherine Newberry can tell you all about life with a gargoyle. Hes naughty. He gets people into trouble. He howls at the moon, breaks statues and tramples flowers to bits, all the while making it look like you did it! He likes to throw apple cores and stick his tongue out at people when they aren't looking. How do you get rid of a gargoyle? Do they he...