Spook. Usually it means a ghost, but in this book it means an exorcist -
someone who searches out evil,and binds it, so that the ordinary people can live in peace, unmolested.
Can you imagine being an apprentice exorcist? It’s a lonely and frightening job.
Take Thomas Ward, for instance. He travels the county with his Master, in [...]
Michel was happy living with his family on a remote island off the coast of France. Even if he sometimes dreamt of sailing the ocean on a wonderful ship like the Captain′s White Ship, his days were too full of fishing and chores to think about it much. But one day disaster strikes the island. [...]
“Bake me a brazzle, Felix, you’re looking good!” said Snakeweed. “Archie and I have had a Ripping time over here – but now we want to go back. And I’m afraid we need You.”
Snakeweed – the villainous japegrin who followed Felix home – is at large in the real world.
He has failed to set up [...]
While visiting Costa Rica with his parents, 13-year-old Felix, who has a life-threatening heart condition, passes out.
When he comes to, he finds himself in a magical world populated by griffins, unicorns, dragons, pixies, and elves.
Humans, their science, and their culture are considered mythical, totally nonexistent.
When he meets Betony, an elf about his age, Felix proves [...]
Amelia Dee lives in the green house on Marburg Street, where a rare bronze lamp hangs outside her bedroom door. No one knows where it came from or how it got there. Only she, Amelia thinks, knows the secret that the lamp contains. Bu she’s wrong.
When Mr Vishwanath introduces Amelia to the Princess Parvin Kha-Douri, [...]
Imagine sitting on the back of a snow-white unicorn.
Imagine riding it high into the sky with the wind in your hair.
Imagine owning it, loving and cherishing it forever.
This dream comes true for Lauren Foster.
By day she rides Twilight, her rather scruffy little grey pony,
but as night draws in and Lauren recites a secret spell,
Twilight becomes [...]
Egged on by a mate,
a teenager steals an electrical gizmo
from a market stall and is besieged with feelings of guilt,
but no matter how he tries to get rid of the
incriminating evidence it will not leave until it has had its revenge.
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Bracing for a final clash with the evil warlord Morgarath, the Rangers rally the kingdom’s allies, and Will is chosen, along with his friend Horace, as special envoys to nearby Celtica.
But the simple mission soon takes an unsettling turn – the Celticans have disappeared, their town abandoned.
The scheming hand of Morgarath, it seems, has been [...]