Alex Bell
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Tiger Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
The much-anticipated prequel to the bestselling FROZEN CHARLOTTE, a Zoella Book Club title in Autumn 2016.
Following the death of her mother in a terrible fire, Jemima flees to the remote Isle of Skye, to take up a job at a school for girls. There she finds herself tormented by the mystery of what really happened that night.
Then Jemima receives a box of Frozen Charlotte dolls from a mystery sender and she begins to remember - a séance with the dolls,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Alex Bell serves up mystery and dark humour aplenty in this Roald Dahl-esque middle-grade tale of toys brought to life. Shadows of teddy bears flit across windows. Dolls whisper behind closed doors. Something has gone very wrong at Hoggle's Happy Toys. But five years after shutting its doors, the toy factory is opening again, and Tess Pipps has found herself a job there. As she and her siblings start their first day of work, they...
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stella Starflake Pearl, Ethan, Shay, Beanie, and Percifal set out for Witch Mountain, where a fearsome witch has taken Stella's father, Felix.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the most perilous places and is full of spiky dangers. Most participants seek out unicorns and dragons to help them on their conquest. But not Eli. He embarks on this journey with his trusted pet and friend, Humphrey,...
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl just wants to be part of the Polar Bear Explorers Club. But Stella's a girl, and everyone knows that girls aren't allowed to be explorers. Stella's ready to prove everyone wrong"--
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl has been expelled from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club. But that's not going to stop her and the rest of the junior explorers from embarking on another exceptionally perilous expedition. It hasn't been long since Shay was bitten by a witch wolf, but he's in danger of turning into one himself. Only an ice queen's long-lost spell book and Stella's ice princess magic has the power to break the curse. The one thing standing in...
8) Superior
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1969, Derek is weeks away from the Vietnam War and Charlie is weeks away from University. Before they grow up, the best friends leave Michigan on one final adventure: a 1,300 mile bike ride around the massive Lake Superior.
