Books with author Jon Jacks

As wendy houses go, Sis’s isn’t anything special. But all her friends have vanished and, last time I saw them, they were all heading towards that weird little house. Now it’s full of dolls, dolls with her missing friends’ names. And I’m sure I still hear them singing that irritating skipping song! So how about I just take a peek in here and – oh oh, maybe that wasn’t such a great idea…

Carey believes that the legendary Porcelain Princess is as real as she is.Believes that if she reads all the fairy tales and myths, she’ll find clues leading to the Porcelain Princess’s kingdom.Even so, she can’t believe it when she finds the Porcelain Princess. Because she also finds that everything else she believed in might not be real after all.

She can’t be older than seven; and yet she’s calling the children of our lands together, telling us we must prevent our king’s coronation.An ancient mosaic has been uncovered, its patterns of whirling spheres containing prophecies of the coming of the Most High.But rulers of the underworld have their own interpretation of the prophecies; and soon, a Palace of Lace will be rising on Glastonbury Tor

First Tim Hollet’s parents mysteriously disappear, then his aunts – his Aunt Lizzy vanishing in mid-air aboard the AutogyroBus, his Aunt Jean from a locked room.The only person offering help is Detective Manahan, a dachshund who becomes a tough-talking doberman as soon as he dons his trademark trench coat. But as Tim enters a world of treachery, involving deep-sea diving off Alexandria, evading capture by the French Foreign Legion, and attempting to prevent the forthcoming war between Britain and France, he finds he can no longer trust anyone – including Manahan, his aunts, and even his parents.

I meet a dream boy on holiday, accept his invite to his dream mountaintop castle; but when I get here, it’s a nightmare of invisible staff (apart from old, sour-faced Lisa) and gardens of either freezing white snow or sheer darkness. Oh, and magpies who appear out of nowhere.Now I’ve found a book for ‘young wytches’; but will it help me survive the castle, or is it just another trap?

Everyone has a guardian angel: an angel who regularly offers you sound advice, and soothes you when you’re angry. Chrissy’s angel Jial, however, is more like a little sister to her.She’s lots of fun to have hanging around, to watch movies with: but she’s also way too lenient.Chrissy loves her. And when the angels start inexplicably disappearing, it’s Chrissy’s turn to guard her angel.

For a crust to keep her alive, Prytani will tell your future: for when she merges with her little vixen Tamesis, she can journey into the underworld.Her own world is one of towers on glass hills, ships who steer themselves, swords that sing, mermaids and werewolves, all of it about to be shattered by the arrival of a boy hardly older than herself.Worse still, others seek to utilise her talents to control the Dead Legions – who are already encroaching on the world of the living.