Books with author Dungworth

Richard has written over forty books for children and began his writing career as an in-house author, working on non-fiction, first at Usborne Publishing, and later at Ladybird Books. Since going freelance, he has created original stories to support a wide range of exciting licensed properties such as Doctor Who; Wallace and Gromit; Transformers; MI High; Captain Scarlet and The Incredibles. Richard lives in Leicestershire with his wife and two young children. Richard's rather unfortunate surname comes from a village in South Yorkshire, where his ancestors lived. It means 'a dwelling with dried cow pats for roofing'. Lovely.

THE ARMOURONElite warriors who banded together centuries ago to fight for justice and for freedom.PLANET EARTHUnder the control of a huge corporation, led by the power-mad Chairman.THE CADETSTrainee gladiators at the Nu-Topian Academy - where something is very, very wrong.SALTThe grizzled old master of the armour workshop, with a secret in his past.THE STORYA non-conformist group living an outlaw existence just outside the perimeter of the city has become a thorn in the Chairman's side. He decides to act but reckons without the groups' unexpected allies, the Amouron. Through secret tunnels the Armouron put up a desperate fight to help the outlaws. But as the Chairman's military chief captures the outlaws under an electromagnectic shield, time looks to be running out...

Genie Street is a magical place where anything can happen. This is an ideal ebook for children who are gaining in reading confidence and want to progress to reading a proper chapter book. Each book is split into two stories, with large type and plenty of pictures, so that children can read it for themselves, with a sense of achievement. Ideal for Key Stage 1 children.When Daisy and Tom move to Genie Street, they are worried they might be bored. But before long they meet a talking cat called Jinx, and find out that nobody who lives on the street is quite what they seem! Old Mrs Kramer looks like an ordinary old lady, but in fact she is a dragon tamer! What will happens when Daisy and Tom join her for an adventure?Book 1 in the Genie Street series.

THE ARMOURONElite warriors who banded together centuries ago to fight for justice and for freedom.PLANET EARTHUnder the control of a huge corporation, led by the power-mad Chairman.THE CADETSTrainee gladiators at the Nu-Topian Academy - where something is very, very wrong.SALTThe grizzled old master of the armour workshop, with a secret in his past.THE STORYSet out of the reaches of Earth on planet Kasteesh, home to the lizard creatures. Every generation of the Armouron has a lizard rider in their group, a knight who has a very special relationship with the lizards on Kasteesh.When Snow, one of the orphan cadets, is drawn by an insistent voice in her head to a interplanetary freighter she is overcome and collapses. When she wakes up she finds herself on Kasteesh and right in the middle of a mission to rescue the lizards that are being experimented on by the Perfect Corporation for their amazing telepathic powers.