Books with author HUGHES

It looked like a paper cut, but sixteen-year-old Dylan Lord is discovering just how painful lies can be. Every lie she tells or hears causes physical pain. It isn't coincidence this started with Jack. He’s there to teach her to be a “Fide”; to feel and heal lies. She wants to believe nothing is happening. A letter opener sliced her hand, not her mother’s “I love you.” The cuts opening on her arms as she walks through her high school were already there, but it’s not working. Every wound she suffers Jack does too. When a lie rips open across Dylan’s stomach, she must admit she isn't fine. She never asked for this. She doesn't want to be a walking lie detector, but not all lies can be covered with Band-Aids. The lies she hasn't fixed are spreading across her body, and she isn't the only one suffering. Jack is growing weaker. She has to hear the truth to heal. If she doesn't hear the truth soon, someone is going to die.

'What Happened to the Dinosaurs' investigates why these huge creatures disappeared. The important question, 'How do we know they existed?' is answered with a clear timeline of images. Various theories are suggested, which support knowledge and understanding of climate change, volcanoes, asteroids and evolution of the animals which did survive.•Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.• Text type - An information book.• The response page summarises the main theories and could support a presented talk.• Curriculum links - Science: Living things in their environment.• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader

When Jack Stormway receives the chance to apply for the Arete Scholarship he jumps at the opportunity. After all, there isn’t anything keeping him in Arius. Jack feels completely disconnected from his family and former friends. Life just hasn’t been the same since his father disappeared five years ago amid allegations of treason. Winning the Arete Scholarship would give Jack a chance at a new life far away in Sea City. Everything changes with the arrival of three new classmates. Oin is friendly and open and doesn’t care about the fact that Jack is the son of a traitor. Zev is cold and aloof, but not a bully like his other classmates. Tos, beautiful and brilliant, is a puzzle that he can’t seem to solve. As the four kids grow closer together Jack is drawn deeper into the mysterious world of Keslar Labs. The Keslar Corporation has effectively dominated the planet; producing everything from food and clothes to the latest advancements in medicine and machinery-every part of daily life in Arius is supplied by Keslar Corporation. As wards of the Labs, Jack’s three new classmates have grown up among extraordinary technology and unbelievably powerful people. People like Janus Richards. Janus Richards, owner and CEO of Keslar Corp., is the most powerful man in the world. He takes a sudden inexplicable interest in his wards and their new friend. Charming yet devious, the man offers Jack an amazing opportunity at his Labs, but the more Jack becomes embroiled in life at the Labs the more questions he has. Why would a man with such connections and resources want the help of a Danarii? Why would he trust Jack with a classified project? What is the Infinity Matrix? Why is Janus so desperate to have it completed? And could it all somehow be linked to his father’s disappearance? Now, in a race against time, Jack may discover not only Janus Richards’ darkest secret, but the secret to his father’s past as well.

Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Previously unpublished poems appear with selections from Under the North Star and The Cat and the Cuckoo. Part of Hughes's Collected Animal Poems, The Iron Wolf is for the youngest readers, both to listen to and explore themselves. Chris Riddell's delightful line illustrations add to the journey of discovery.

SOME THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE THE HARD WAY!Private Lewis Freeman had a problem. The treasure map passed down through generations of family, from slavery to modern day, showed his legendary ancestral fortune was buried in the dead center of the war zone.Corporal Vince Masini had several problems. He struggled to keep a ragtag group of outcasts and misfits together as a military unit and to keep them out of the clutches of Captain Nikki Christopoulos, war regulation enforcement. He also had to make it look as though they were obeying the orders of a blood and guts veteran commander, Colonel Thaddeus T. Fattingham.Could there have been a better way to cause chaos and mayhem than to go on a treasure hunt in the middle of the war zone?With a decrepit old jeep named Beulah, they must dodge bombs and bullets – and sometimes each other – through 180 miles of African jungle to get to the “X” on the ancient treasure map. Will they make it alive? Or will they die trying?