Books with author Andrea Mills

Help your child improve their reading skills while learning about myths, legends, fairytales, and folklore. These fantastic retellings feature great stories from mythology about terrifying dragons and monsters, magical unicorns, and shapeshifting werewolves.Mythical Beasts is a new title in the exciting and engaging four-level DK Readers series. Developing a lifelong love of reading, DK Readers cover a vast range of fascinating subjects featuring DK's stunning photography, to support children as they learn to read.Include fun facts for kids, this innovative series of levelled guided reading books combines a highly visual approach with engaging nonfiction narratives. Reading levels progress from brief, simple text in the early readers, to slightly longer, more detailed nonfiction chapter books, to challenging nonfiction containing rich vocabulary and more complex sentence structures. Fun quizzes boost reading comprehension.

Strange But True is an eye-popping compendium of extreme, bizarre and weird animals, places and strange phenomenaDid you know there's a plant that eats mice? That you can dip your toe in a rainbow-coloured river? Or peer into the Doorway to Hell? Find out the where, why and how in Strange But True. Ideal for those curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world. Stuffed full of strange animals, peculiar weather and odd places, Strange But True unravels all these astonishing strange phenomena, from fish that rain from the sky to huge sinkholes, through specially commissioned CGI artworks, jaw-dropping illustration and clear scientific explanations.

Discover the most unbelievable, mind-boggling facts with True or False?Do we only use 10% of our brains. Does lightning never strike twice. Was penicillin invented by mistake. True or False? Look inside DK's True or False? encyclopedia and find out whether these common sayings are true or false! Packed with amazing fun facts for kids, unbelievable statistics and common sayings True or False? reveals the truth!Covering lots of weird facts and fascinating topics, for example, did you know that you are taller in the morning than in the evening or that Sunflowers follow the Sun across the sky. From animals and people to space and science, each true or false question is proved right or wrong, and is full of colourful pictures, photographs and infographics that bring each subject to life! Plus you'll discover incredible facts and statistics to wow your family and friends too. The perfect gift for Christmas or birthdays this book is packed with fun facts for kids with inquisitive minds.Remember! Next time you're told Pluto is a planet or spinach makes you strong make sure you have True or False? handy!

The Earth’s lakes and oceans are mostly gone, and grass has been replaced with red sand. Humans survive their inhospitable environment by living together in huge cement compounds. Survive, that is, if they aren’t crippled by a degenerative disease that plagues the world.No longer welcome in her home compound of Nu, seventeen year old Nora Watson decides to make the long, slow journey to the Central Government Compound earlier than planned. Her partner Tomas Classen makes the trek too, and quickly finds himself a job and meets friends. Nora, however, is denied her life-long dream to become a scientist. How is she going to discover the true cause of the Disease now?Relationships and dreams become more complicated when Nora meets her estranged father, Norman Janner. Worse, he seems to be doing everything in his power to keep the real cause of the Disease a secret—and he’s enlisted an old acquaintance to help him. Now Nora has to choose between doing what’s right, and what her father wants her to do.

When a mysterious couple arrive in Alexandria, Virginia, the town comes alive with intruige and gossip. However, when dead animals are left in front of the doors of people's homes and a man is killed, it is up to Archibald Mercer to solve the case. Follow Mercer through the streets of Alexandria as he encounters murder, mystery, voodoo, and pirates!