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The Witch of Clatteringshaws

Joan Aiken
The Witch of Clatteringshaws Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780804150897

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The Witch of Clatteringshaws by Joan Aiken Pdf

Dido Twite’s sharp wits are put to the test in this new adventure in the Wolves Chronicles. After King Richard dies, Dido’s good pal Simon is put on the English throne, but he hates being cooped up in drafty St. James Palace, and his crusty old advisors won’t let him have any fun at all. If only another descendent of the king could be found, Simon would gladly be replaced. Never short a solution, Dido discovers a lead to another member of the royal line. But no one knows exactly who—or where—the child is. The masterful storyteller Joan Aiken once again invites readers into a spellbinding world of magic, mystery, and mayhem—with a dose of “proper” English hilarity, of course.

Midwinter Nightingale

Joan Aiken
Midwinter Nightingale Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409012320

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Midwinter Nightingale by Joan Aiken Pdf

King Richard, son of James III lies gravely ill and there are rumours that the king's enemy, the Duchess of Burgundy, is preparing an imminent invasion. The ancient crown of Alfred must be found so King Richard can pass it on to his successor. Is Simon, Duke of Battersea and friend of the king, next in line to the throne or will the evil werewolf Baron Magnus Rudh succeed in his plot to make his son, Lot, king? To add further complications, Dido Twite, held prisoner by the Baron and the Duchess, does not know the whereabouts of either Simon or the dying king: can she escape in time to find and warn them of the treachery afoot? This adventure with a truly galloping plot and breath-taking situations will delight all fans of Joan Aiken's books

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448139897

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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Pdf

Can you go a little faster? Can you run? Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia discover, real danger often lies closer to home. Their new governess, Miss Slighcarp, doesn't seem at all nice. She shuts Bonnie in a cupboard, fires the faithful servants and sends the cousins far away from Willoughby Chase to a place they will never be found. Can Bonnie and Sylvia outwit the wicked Miss Slighcarp and her network of criminals, forgers and snitches? BACKSTORY: Find out a few things you didn't know about wolves and learn all about the wonderful world of the author.

Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547530710

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Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken Pdf

In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew’s fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “It’s a marvel!” —The New Yorker “A wild yarn, not to be put down once it is started.” —Washington Post “A riot of wildly improbable adventures happening to absurd and loveable characters with Dickensian names in a time that never was . . . Heartrending, hair-raising, rib-tickling, and delightful.” —New York Times

Night Birds On Nantucket

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409024682

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Night Birds On Nantucket by Joan Aiken Pdf

Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind.

Dangerous Games

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504018821

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Dangerous Games by Joan Aiken Pdf

Dido Twite, with the help of some sacred shaman healers, must foil a sinister plot to overthrow the king of a remote South Sea island healers Sailing the high seas in pursuit of Lord Herodsfoot, roving ambassador to the ageing King James III, Dido Twite’s search has led her to the remote South Sea island of Aratu. She arrives with a new friend she made en route, the enigmatic Dr. Talisman, who is returning to the isle after many years. Soon they discover that there’s something even more dangerous in the ancient rain forest than its poisonous pearl snakes, sting monkeys, and 30-foot-long crocodiles. Dido and Talisman are confronted by the Angrian invaders, who drove the Dilendi natives from their home 400 years earlier. Luckily, Dido befriends the gentle Forest People, who can heal with their magical touch. When she learns about a plot to overthrow the island’s suffering king, Dido enlists the Forest People to help her thwart the scheme, save the monarch, and reunite him with his long-lost daughter. Dangerous Games is the 5th book in the award-winning Wolves Chronicles, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Joan Aiken including rare images from the author’s estate.

Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books

Doris Gebel,United States Board on Books for Young People
Crossing Boundaries with Children s Books Book PDF

Author : Doris Gebel,United States Board on Books for Young People
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810852039

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Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books by Doris Gebel,United States Board on Books for Young People Pdf

This annotated bibliography-organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries-is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with annotations of both in and out of print books published between 1950 and 1996. Susan Stan's The World Through Children's Books (2002) was the second and it included books published between the years 1997 and 2000. Crossing Boundaries includes international children's books published between 2000 and 2004, as well as selected American books set in countries other than the United States. Editor Doris Gebel has compiled an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.

The Stolen Lake

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547529899

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The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken Pdf

In this fantasy adventure, a young girl visits a land where birds carry off men, fish eat human flesh, and she must rescue a pilfered lake. Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in her wildest escapade yet. Now back in print, The Cuckoo Tree and The Stolen Lake continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, The Stolen Lake is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. On her way back to London aboard the British man-of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite finds herself and the crew summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. A neighboring king has stolen the queen’s lake and is holding it for ransom, and it’s up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back—or else. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “Aiken lures us into historical fantasy . . . our interest never slows.” —School Library Journal “The adventure Miss Aiken has dished up . . . in The Stolen Lake is zanier and more devilishly fiendish than ever.” —New York Times

The Whispering Mountain (Prequel to the Wolves Chronicles series)

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141375540

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The Whispering Mountain (Prequel to the Wolves Chronicles series) by Joan Aiken Pdf

Prize winning WOLVES CHRONICLES PREQUEL reissued in A Puffin Book - All 12 Wolves books now in print for the first time ever. In THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN by Joan Aiken, the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again. For young Owen Hughes and his friend Arabis, it is the start of a hair-raising race to save the harp from sinister Lord Malyn. As they struggle to keep it out of his hands, they are plunged into a wild adventure involving murder, kidnapping, underground worlds, savage beasts, floods, avalanche, the mysterious children of the Pit - and above all, a man who will stop at nothing to get the harp back again. Winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Award.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror [17]

Stephen Jones
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 Book PDF

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780333748

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror [17] by Stephen Jones Pdf

The year's finest tales of terror Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including Peter Atkins, Cliver Barker, Glen Hirschberg, Joe Hill and Caitlin R. Kiernan. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Midnight Is a Place

Joan Aiken
Midnight Is a Place Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547561936

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Midnight Is a Place by Joan Aiken Pdf

The author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase presents a darkly humorous adventure starring two troubled orphans in a weird and wild world. Lucas Bell is lonely and miserable at Midnight Court, a vast, brooding house owned by his intolerable guardian, Sir Randolph Grimsby. When a mysterious carriage brings a visitor to the house, Lucas hopes he’s found a friend at last. But the newcomer, Anna Marie, is unfriendly and spoiled—and French. Just when Lucas thinks things can’t get any worse, disastrous circumstances force him and Anna Marie, parentless and penniless, into the dark and unfriendly streets of Blastburn . . . Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “There is nobody like Joan Aiken for creating chilling nightmares. In . . . Midnight is a Place we have machines which crush children to death, herds of man-eating hogs in subterranean sewers . . . . Aiken writes superbly, with a force, a color, and strength of imagination that one encounters all too rarely today.” —Daily Telegraph (UK) “An abundance of action, suspense, and melodrama . . . there is never a dull moment.” —School Library Journal “Aiken knows how to keep a kid on the edge of his seat.” —Book World “The author proves once again that she writes about children in distress better than anyone since Dickens.” —Time

Pardon This Intrusion

John Clute
Pardon This Intrusion Book PDF

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219793

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Pardon This Intrusion by John Clute Pdf

Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces - including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 - are unchanged.

Dido and Pa

Joan Aiken
Dido and Pa Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547562384

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Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken Pdf

A teenage adventurer gets wrapped up in her father’s dastardly schemes in this children’s novel by the author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Dido Twite is finally back in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the Duke of Battersea and a favorite of King Richard. But no sooner does Dido start to settle in than her rascally father, Abednago, appears and drags her off into the night. Soon Dido finds herself caught in the midst of another dastardly conspiracy: a Hanoverian plot involving a mysterious double for the king, the miraculous healing powers of music, and a spy network made up of abandoned street children called lollpoops. Meanwhile, out in the forest, starving wolves are closing in on the city . . . Dido and Pa is the seventh book in the award-winning Wolves Chronicles, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Cold Shoulder Road

Joan Aiken
Cold Shoulder Road Book PDF

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409024866

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Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken Pdf

Arun returns to his mother's house on Cold Shoulder Road, only to find it deserted and flood-ravaged. Some say she's run off with a Silent Sect, other whisper that she's a witch, and Mrs Boles mutters fearfully about the Emjee and the Handsel child, but dares say no more. With the help of his indomitable cousin, Is Twite, Arun sets off in search of Admiral Fishkin - their only key to discovering the real truth, whatever it may be...

The Cuckoo Tree

Joan Aiken
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Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015011320770

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The Cuckoo Tree by Joan Aiken Pdf

As a result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.