Books with author Chris Brooks

“Now the lunch monster was twice the size it was before and had taken to eating my pillow! It had to be stopped before it ate my bedspread and mattress! But how? Mom was going to be so mad. She just bought that bedspread.”Lurking in the depths of Joey’s backpack is a neglected and ravenous monster: his uneaten lunch. It is restless. It is hungry. And it has it’s eyes on Joey’s neighborhood.

The venerable Adena Tor has lost a relic. Not just any relic but one which will change the course of the war. As the casualties rise and the armies are beaten back, the Elders agree to the formation of a group of adventurers who will attempt to regain the relic against overwhelming odds. The most promising recruits are chosen, each of them having special abilities not seen in decades and the search is on. Follow Sarian and the others as they battle against the forces of the Defiler. New skills are taught to them along the way but will all of this be enough? Can the quest group find and hold the relic which they seek long enough to return it? Will betrayals from within damage the New World Alliance beyond recovery? Can the League of Sarian triumph over evil?

Welcome to the real seventies, where the hair is shaved, the music is funky and the football is violent. Chris Brown was right there in the thick of the action. With his regulation haircut, clip on braces, shrunk Levis and bovver boots, he had the look every self-respecting bovver boy could not be seen without. This is the most amazing story of the most maligned decade in British history. It tells of adrenaline-packed Saturday outings, Tonik suits, aggro on the terraces, funk on the dancefloor and Johnny Rotten inside your head.

Lucia discovers evidence that dragons may not be as extinct as historians and scholars would have people believe, and so sets out to prove them wrong. When she discovers a preserved egg high in the mountains, she returns home with her evidence to prove the point.The only trouble with bringing back such a coveted prize is there are others in seats of office that have the power to confiscate it without having to offer an explanation.What follows are an unfortunate chain of events that sees Lucia forced from her home, find new friends, as well as develop a conscience regarding the fate of the egg. But will her plans prove to be all too late as the real egg’s owner turns up so as to reclaim that which had been stolen?The Tale of the Dragon’s Egg is Lucia’s first adventure as she sets out on her adventures as a not so ordinary Vampire.

A depressed yuppie living the big-city life meets a woman and falls in love with her over a series of dates. They attend the theater together, discuss modern events and see one of the greatest blues legends in concert together. Through their whirlwind romance, he discovers that he’s more in love with her than she is him. He does not understand the divide between them. There is a distinct secret separating them both, but what does it ultimately mean for their relationship?

Follow the adventures of the Navvydids as they battle to plug a hole in the bottom of the canal that is leaking water all over the farmers field. The Navvydids also must protect their pots of gold from being stolen by a gang of little men from Yorkshire, called the Bygumbies, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the gold. The Navvydids gold is hidden in a cave in the woods at the bottom of Mrs Pickersgills garden and is guarded by the Navvydids faithful friend, the Snigglebogart.

The venerable Adena Tor has lost a relic. Not just any relic but one which will change the course of the war. As the casualties rise and the armies are beaten back, the Elders agree to the formation of a group of adventurers who will attempt to regain the relic against overwhelming odds. The most promising recruits are chosen, each of them having special abilities not seen in decades and the search is on. Follow Sarian and the others as they battle against the forces of the Defiler. New skills are taught to them along the way but will all of this be enough? Can the quest group find and hold the relic which they seek long enough to return it? Will betrayals from within damage the New World Alliance beyond recovery? Can the League of Sarian triumph over evil?