Books with author Jot Davies

Mattie can hear her mother crying. Wondering if this is because her stepfather's office keys are missing she decides that she must try and find them before he returns from a business trip. She discovers that though she cannot do this in the real world it may be possible to do so in a fantasy one.A white feather guides her through a magical world where the five holders of the keys live. Not only does she have to find these people but also persuade them to give her their keys. Her quest takes her up a mountain, into caverns, a maze, a wood and a castle. But nothing is what it seems and lots of obstacles are put in her path.

In the late 1800’s, a Sailor named John Tillet had fought for his life when the ship he was working on capsized in a freak storm near a small island in the Indian Ocean.For nearly 5 years, since her husband John’s disappearance, Emma had worked hard scrubbing shop front steps to make enough money to pay the landlords rent and feed Sam, her small son.Christmas was drawing near and Emma wanted so very much to buy a wooden toy train with the letters S.A.M. on the side for her little boy. Sam would be 6 years old on Christmas day but somehow she never had enough money left over at the end of the week to put by for the toy train. What was she to do?

Fiona Malone is worried. Where is Granny? She was supposed to be looking after Fiona’s young brother Adie. And why can’t she get hold of Mum on her phone? Does it have something to do with the unfriendly Mrs Harris and the mysterious visitors to the house next door? Does Adie know something which he cannot tell her? What is the connection between Granny’s disappearance and the town of Parford’s historic potteries? Fiona sets out to solve the mystery. She is helped by her friends Frankie and Marty, Marty’s dog , Snapper, as well as Marty’s friend Jermaine with his skateboard, canary yellow baseball cap and pink head phones. She also receives dubious help from PC ‘Barmy’ Babstock, who is better at performing on a bouncy castle than he is at solving crime, and his long-suffering colleague Cliff Nesbit. The sleuths soon begin to realise that they have stumbled on something bigger… something which leads to a race against time and an exciting confrontation on the railway line…

The king had consulted the sage of the hills, Who said ending a drought was beyond his small skills. But if someone could spread some snow in the sky, The rain would return — they would see by and by! There has been no rain for months. The crops are failing and the people and animals are thirsty. Only Darren can help, so he sets out on a journey to find a special snow that will return water to the land. Can Darren succeed in his quest to break this dreadful drought?