Books with author Ian Wood

Shortly before she ever became queen of all Egypt, Kleopatra was a middle-grader, and you know what? Nothing is known of what she got up to during that period of her life! Maybe the stories in here are true. Who was it who prevented her father building a new pyramid - the first in Egypt in a thousand years - by sabotaging the foundation? Who was it who put Nile Perch into the canopic jars in place of the organs of the deceased? Whatever happened to the effigy of Poseidon in the temple? And what exactly was it that prevented the marriage of Ptolemy the Twelfth to the daughter of the mighty Pompey of Rome? Maybe these stories are true, maybe they're not, but you'll have fun reading them and you'll learn a lot about ancient Egypt in the process. Maybe you'll even like Cleopatra by the end of it, but I'm not promising anything!

From the author of Femarine, comes another girl-power story. Bass Metal is a largely European girl band into alt metal, fusion, solid musicianship, and good fun, until they start a North American tour and are struck by lightning on the first day. From then on, things seem to change. Have they somehow developed super-powers, and if so, how did it happen? The lightning? The special formula drink their sponsor is promoting? A combination of things? Or are they just a kick-ass bunch of girls who need nothing added to stand up for who they are and what they believe in? This is a story of female friendship, unity, fearlessness and empowerment on a college tour where sexual assault and other abuses are all-too prevalent and justice is far too hard to find.