Books with author Jo Edwards

When a little girl can't fall asleep, she tries to close her eyes and count some sheep, but her flock of counting sheep was nowhere to be found. Join her as she searches for her missing flock, who are out having adventures of their own. She finds them flying into outer space and diving in the sea and she realizes counting sheep could be hard work, but also a lot of fun.

What can you do when your closest friend lives hundreds of years away?Joe Hopkins is staying in York for October half-term. He hasn’t seen Lucy since the beginning of September and he’s really missing her. But when at last he slips through time again, he’s alarmed to find himself in a different world altogether. This isn’t Roman Britain. It’s Jorvik, in the age of the Vikings.“Saving the Unicorn’s Horn” is the second book in The Scar Gatherer Series, seven time-travel adventures for 8 to 12 year olds. The first book is “The Leopard in the Golden Cage”.For more information about the series, or to sign up for updates, please go to www.scargatherer.co.uk.

1586 - London, EnglandSixteen-year-old Mercy Hart is the daughter of one of London's richest - and strictest - cloth merchants.Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son of the late Earl of Dorset. A chance encounter finds Kit falling for the beautiful Mercy's charms, but their love is forbidden. A merchant's daughter and a vagabond - it simply cannot be.If Mercy chooses Kit she must renounce her family name and leave her home. Will she favour duty over true love, or will she give Kit his heart's desire?

Can the latest Victorian invention give Joe what he really wants?When Joe Hopkins boards a ferry to go on holiday, he doesn't expect to find himself shipwrecked. But by the time he washes up on a Cornish beach, he knows he has slipped into the past again.Victorian England is quite different to how he imagined: few of the great inventions of the age have reached the fishing village where Lucy lives. But when Joe has the chance to try out the latest technology – photography – he jumps at it. Can it give him the thing he has desired for so long, a picture of his dearest friend that he can keep? And will the camera prove once and for all that he was there beside her?"The Shimmer on the Glass" is the sixth book in The Scar Gatherer Series, seven adventures for 8 to 12 year olds which have seen Joe riding with Vikings, trying to save London from the Great Fire, and facing one of the great evils of British history. Now, he finally has the chance to prove that he has been to the past. But will it work?

In the year 2519, people on Earth don’t grow old and die any longer, their bodies are frozen and they start a new life in the virtual reality of the Game. Jex is almost eighteen, working twelve-hour shifts, and dreaming of when she’ll be legally adult and begin her long-planned idyllic life in Game. When a bomber attacks a Game server complex, one of the virtual worlds of Game crashes, and eleven thousand immortal players die during emergency defrost. Death has struck Game for the first time in centuries, and Jex is questioned as a suspect in the bombing. With this on her record, Jex will never be allowed to enter the Game, but then one of the legendary founder players of Game offers her the chance to join his investigation into the bombing. Jex must help Hawk catch the true bomber to protect the worlds of Game and save her own future, but the bomber is far more dangerous than anyone realizes.

When a spunky, curious little kitten narrowly escapes being dropped in the river by an unsympathetic butler, she finds herself at the beginning of an adventurous new life. It isn't long before Bo is paired up with a young sailor who promises to show her the world, and she is off. Bo is a good luck charm to her new master, Billy, but more than that, this beautiful amethyst-eyed bundle of fur offers a peek at the world from an innocent, childlike perspective. Permeated with excitement and adventure and capturing the sweetness of friendship, Little Bo is the kind of timeless children's literature one would expect from a beloved icon of family entertainment.

In this book, Baby Elephant learns how to mix primary colours. As Baby Elephant paints, his parents show him how to make new colours. This book may assist in developing a young child's understanding of colour. There are colouring pages at the end of the book for children to complete.This book follows on from "Baby Elephant wants gumboots", another book in the Baby Elephant series. Additionally, the colouring pages can be downloaded from Julie's website www.julie-edwards.com.

When the Sonics catch the Smashers cheating on the basketball court, they report it to the referee. The ref isn’t convinced, but the Sonics have proof—Bryan O’Malley caught the Smashers on video! Only, now the tape is missing. Somebody switched it, but who? The only clues the Sonics have are:An orange hair clip.A puddle of grape drink.A few seconds of the Halloween party video. They have to find the missing video and stop the Smashers’ dirty playing—or they might lose the rematch. Will the Sonics be able to solve The Case of the Basketball Video before the final buzzer?

The key that unlocks Lucy's world has a dangerous power.It's Easter Saturday, and Joe Hopkins is out riding with his brother. When his horse throws him off, he lands, quite literally, in Tudor England.Joe has learned about the Tudors at school. But if he thinks that will help him, he soon discovers that he knows both too little and too much.He doesn't realise that by giving Lucy his St. Christopher, he is putting her in danger. And when it is taken from her, he faces even greater peril to get it back."The Falconer's Quarry" is the third book in The Scar Gatherer series. For more information or to sign up for updates, please go to www.scargatherer.co.uk.