Books with author Anne Macmillan

On a cold December night, three flashing lights are seen in the skies above Suffolk. In a local hospital, a man is introduced to his new baby daughter. An hour later he vanishes from the face of the earth, leaving a distraught family and a daughter who lives with the belief that somehow, she is responsible for his disappearance.Cassie Jones thinks that she is just an ordinary teenager, except for the fact that her mother doesn't let her out of her sight and that her father vanished an hour after she was born. Her older brother, Charlie, has been dragged in to watching her, never having a moment to himself. They have both had enough.Their first taste of freedom sets in motion a chain of extraordinary events that turns their world upside down. They learn that humans are not the only inhabitants of the universe and that Earth, their home, is home to beings from many other galaxies, not all of whom wish us well. But knowing who they are and which ones to trust proves to be more difficult than Cassie could have imagined. Friends and neighbours are not who you think they are and as Cassie discovers, neither is she.What begins as an ordinary school day becomes a nightmare in which Cassie and her friends find themselves at the mercy of a mercurial being, who enjoys games so much that he has created the greatest game of all – Creation. When Cassie fails to solve his first puzzle, he sends them to the farthest reaches of space and time, where they meet with surprisingly familiar people and creatures, who will help and hinder them in their quest to return to their families. They will be tested to their limits and the only way they will survive is if Cassie faces her darkest fear…

Christmas at Mole Run is a 25-chapter Advent story of the small animal community at Mole Run. Joel the mole’s father disappeared two years ago, and now Joel works feverishly to rebuild the family home, destroyed by a spring flood, before Christmas. With the help of his friends Othello the owl and Pocket the ground squirrel and encouragement from the entire community, Joel prepares for the return of his mother and younger siblings. But a letter from relatives in the east causes all of Mole Run to become a hubbub of activity! And who is the mysterious stowaway on the train whose heart is set on Mole Run?

Matzo’s Journey is a 25-chapter Advent story that retells the Christmas tale through the eyes of Matzo, Mary’s pet mouse. When he finds out that Mary is going to have a very special baby, he enlists the help of his friend, Tabitha the turtledove. Together, they do everything they can to see that Mary and Joseph are ready for this great event. But with the trouble that comes from the big, cruel Roman soldiers in Nazareth and two mean, ugly cats named Festus and Horatio, can the animals really believe that with God nothing is impossible?

Red Leech, is the second in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager – creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey – and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web – where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay . . .Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again.Continue the investigative adventures with Andrew Lane's Black Ice and Fire Storm.