Books with author Iain Lawrence

Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino. Folks call him Ghost Boy. When the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. The circus seems like the answer to his loneliness. He's eager to meet a sideshow attraction who's an albino, too. Even at the circus, though, two groups exist--the freaks, and everyone else. Fitting in comes at a price, and Harold must recognize the truth beneath what seems apparent.

Magical blackouts, forest creatures in the walls, and people going missing.Ihale City isn’t safe anymore.It’s been months since the events in the tunnels and Heln can’t let his guard down. Something is out there, just waiting to spirit him away outside of the walls and into the domain of the forest god. He finally gives in.Bel and Rhyss follow.Out in the forest things are not what they expected. Heln is called on to help with the very thing that has been causing Ihalins to leave the city for a thousand years. Something dark that lurks in the heart of the old city.Will he be able to stop it? What could be at the center of it all?Will Bel and Rhyss’s friendship, driven by the danger they’re in, blossom into something more?The Abandoned City continues the story of Ihale - and the secrets hidden there.

Brilliant debut historical adventure from writer and comedian Iszi Lawrence, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, The Princess and the Suffragette, and Opal Plumstead. The story of the suffragettes with the Jiu Jitsu and roller skating left in... this impeccably researched debut novel from Iszi Lawrence shows the fight for women's suffrage as it really was. Lettice Pegg's father is a working-class policeman and her mother is a middle-class suffragette. Stuck between them (and her terrifying grandma) as they argue, Lettice mostly cares about trying to fit in at school and convincing her parents to let her have roller skates and go to the music hall. But, when Lettice sees her mother brutally thrown to the ground by a policeman while on a protest march, her life changes forever. Not all of the women on the march are vulnerable to attack. Some of them have a secret weapon: Jiu Jitsu.As the suffragettes welcome Lettice to the fight back, things at home go from bad to worse. Can Lettice bring her family back together and keep her new friends?

Taking a shortcut is never a good idea, but when his sister Bel insists as they head for the Festival of the Rising Stones, Heln listens anyway. Being caught by Rhyss, guard trainee and Bel's sworn enemy, is only the start of their problems.Those problems increase rapidly as ancient magic, in the form of clay golems, chases them down into a series of tunnels beneath the city. It soon becomes apparent that something larger is at work, driving them deeper and deeper into the unknown. The only clue they have is the symbol of the forest god, and their only chance of survival is their own wits.

Coming of age was a much anticipated time for Rass DeFeetle. Though he was in charge of his siblings, he left them to pursue his own interests and, from a distance, he was witness to the violent destruction of the family’s home.The devastating guilt he felt prompted his perilous wanderings which lead him to the discovery of his golden needle. With a newfound sense of self-worth and confidence, his further travels bring him to his smart and beautiful she-beetle friend, Jewell.After an encounter with a large and intimidating June bug, they learn that Rass is not the only one with a heartbreaking past. Plans develop that will require the employment of a legion of characters to overcome the often times dire consequences of being a bug in a man’s world.

A swashbuckling thriller, part one of THE HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES, set on the oceans of the eighteenth century -- drama, horror, adventure! It is 1799. John Spencer is fourteen when his father's ship, the ill-fated Isle of Skye, is shipwrecked on the coast of Cornwall as she makes for her home port. John survives the disaster, but soon learns to his horror that the villagers are not rescuers but wreckers -- pirates who lure ships ashore in order to plunder their cargo! When John discovers that his father is alive but being held prisoner, he must try and rescue him -- without knowing who can be trusted to help.