Books with author Liam Stuart

Aidan, Maggie, Nana, Beebop, and their elven friends have recovered the first two of four gemstones stolen from the Elven Bow. With the second stone - the Amethyst - protected by the Elven Scouts Alatariel and Lotheth and on its way to Keeper for safekeeping, the rest of group heads deeper into Celahir to rescue Aidan and Maggie’s father, Mike, from the clutches of the witch Maeva and to recover the third gemstone - the Emerald.After a fateful encounter at Maeva’s house, the witch turns everyone, except Aidan and Maggie, into stone statues to decorate her lawn. With the help of Dylan - a ghost boy they met in the village of Fearn - the children have to muster all of the courage and ingenuity they possess to find a way to retrieve the witch’s heart from its hiding place and trade it for their family and friend’s freedom. If they can do that, then they might be able to find the third gemstone by defeating the cockatrice...

A B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree and Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal WinnerElves, magic, stolen gemstones, a quest to restore the balance between good and evil, and who is the mysterious Keeper?When Aidan and Maggie find a fairy cross while rock hunting with their grandfather, it’s just an oddity. When they discover an elf imprisoned in the stone and free him, Dark Elves attack the siblings and their grandparents, forcing them to flee to Celahir, magical home of the Elves. The family, with the help of their Elven friends, embarks on a dangerous adventure to find the first of the four stolen gems, the Carnelian. Without restoration of the stones, the balance between good and evil is slipping toward evil - in both Celahir and the human world…

Engaging story lines and relatable contexts assist readers in understanding the fundamentals of numbers and operations in base ten. Students will learn how to extend the count sequence and gain an understanding of place value in order to apply that understanding to addition and subtraction equations. Age-appropriate text and eye-catching visuals make these concepts easy to understand for beginning math students. A town's parade is the backdrop for this narrative, which teaches readers about place value and understanding tens and ones. This volume satisfies CCSS Math Standard 1.NBT.B.2.

A B.R.A.G Medallion HonoreeAidan and Maggie’s father kidnapped, a giant guards the Amethyst, and the human world and Celahir tip ever closer to evil! In Celahir, the magical land where the Light Elves and the Dark Elves live, the four gemstones of the Elven Bow have been stolen by the Dark Elves. Without those gemstones, the barrier between the human world and Celahir is deteriorating and the balance between good and evil in both worlds is tipping toward evil.Aidan, Maggie, Nana, and Beebop recovered the first of the gemstones, the Carnelian, with help from their Light Elf friends during their first trip to Celahir. Now, the stakes are even higher when the elves return to the human world to ask for help recovering the second gemstone, the Amethyst, and the humans discover that the evil elf Naesse kidnapped Mike – Aidan and Maggie’s father!The humans, accompanied by Aidan and Maggie’s mother, Laura, return to Celahir to rescue Mike and recover the Amethyst. All they have to do is defeat the giant that guards the gemstone…

Coming of age teen detective suspense thriller ... Webs is the first book in the bestseller Lily S: Teen Detective series of mysteries and thrillers.Part spy, part PI, sixteen-year-old Lily’s policeman Dad is trying to untangle a particularly nasty death and Lily’s intrigued. She’s even more intrigued when she proves to him it’s actually murder. Perhaps she’d make a detective too? If only she could work out what would get Dad to dump awful Ange, grovel, and patch things up with Mum. Irritating isn’t the word!In retaliation, for awful Ange, Lily’s mum resorts to the web for romance; the world-wide-web. Convinced she can get her parents back together, Lily resorts to her own bit of web-weaving to trip up the candidates for replacement daddy. Whilst her school friends are up to their usual tricks; Matt is alternately ignoring and chasing her and Melezz is being the worst best friend, Lily is up to her own. The trouble is, whilst Lily thinks she’s playing private investigator and being a clever little spider, weaving clever little traps, one of her prey is smarter still; and deadly. “You have got to read this book. It is awesome!” “I fell in love with Lily, her humor and snarkiness ”" and her bravery.”“Sets the bar high for YA Literature...”“...stands out from all the others....”˃˃˃ Interview with the AuthorQ - So, what makes the Webs special? A - Its completely different. And if you're a fan of Veronica Mars, Nancy Drew, Janet Evanovich's books on Stephanie Plum or Meg Cabot's Size 12 books featuring Heather Wells and want more fly-on-the-wall teenage realism than fictional fantasy, you’ll love it. The characters are based on real life, and as teenagers are the wittiest, craziest people I know; and the most interesting. Who needs fantasy? Laughter mixed with tricky plot twists and a dark, dark mind waiting quietly to catch Lily in his own web...Q - What order should I read the Lily S: Teenage Detective series books in? A - The series runs in a sequence, with the second book due out this year, but the stories are complete in themselves. To get the most out of them, though, I think the best order to read in is: - Webs - Magpies (out Autumn 2015) - Gone (out Summer 2016)Then you’ll get all the gags, including the long-running ones, and all the back stories.Q - So, why should readers give these books a try? A - When I wrote Webs it started out really dark; noir, and I added Lily to create light within the shade. But everyone who read the book before its publication loved Lily so much, in the end she took over, and they loved it even more. But Webs isn’t just the first in another teenage detective series. This is Lily’s life, loves, fixes and dilemmas as well as her private investigation work. Lily is real ”" sharp, witty, cool; and vulnerable. She’s potentially me at sixteen, or you; and the humour will keep you laughing even as you’re desperately flipping the pages to find out what happens next. Q - Can readers collect the whole series in one go? A - Hop over to my author page here at Amazon to find out how to be the first in the know, and a full list of my available titles as I also write psychological thrillers and literary fiction under other pen names. And thanks for reading!

THE teen detective is back, and looking for trouble…or rather trouble’s looking for her. They find each other in the series of little mysteries that start cropping up as soon as Lily’s back at school after her brush with death, and meets the new boy, Si. He’s different, like Lily is now, with her occasional narcolepsy and frequent inclination to be a private investigator about everything – but different never featured in the teen girl’s guide to growing up.And whereas Lily watches and works things out, Si blurts it all out at the wrong time and in the wrong way. He has Tourettes. He also has a way with rhymes; one in particular that increasingly makes sense to Lily as the mysteries mount up, including one which might mean murder. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for -But joy is no longer a girl’s name nor the opposite of sad, and the magpies the rhyme is about are not just black and white birds that like stealing treasure. They’re far more deadly than that. As Lily plays girl sleuth and figures out just what they really are, justice looks like the last thing she can hope for – along with coming of age, if they have anything to do with it… Magpies is the second book in the Lily S: Teenage Detective series of suspense thrillers. Interview with the AuthorQ - So, what makes Magpies special? A - It’s completely different. And if you're a fan of Veronica Mars, Nancy Drew, Janet Evanovich's books on Stephanie Plum or Meg Cabot's Size 12 books featuring Heather Wells and want more fly-on-the-wall teenage realism than fictional fantasy, you’ll love it. The characters are based on real life, and as teenagers are the wittiest, craziest people I know; and the most interesting. Who needs fantasy? But there are real life issues involved too, like love, frenemies, being different and fitting in despite that. It’s a coming of age mix of finding themselves and losing themselves too.Q - What order should I read the Lily S: Teenage Detective series books in? A - The series runs in a sequence, with the second book due out shortly, but the stories are complete in themselves. To get the most out of them, though, I think the best order to read in is: - Webs - Magpies - Gone (out Summer 2016)Then you’ll get all the gags, including the long-running ones, and all the back stories.Q - So, why should readers give these books a try? A - When I wrote Webs it started out really dark; noir, and I added Lily to create light within the shade. But everyone who read the book before its publication loved Lily so much, in the end she took over, and they loved it even more. Magpies is less dark, but equally tricky. Even though a teenage detective may be smarter than the average nerd, it doesn’t mean she ”" or her friends ”" can work it all out right first time round. And being a teenage detective definitely makes you NOT one of the crowd; different. That’s a difficult concept for anyone to come to terms with, let alone someone also dealing with emotions, sex, standing by your principles, working out who you can rely on and who you can’t ”" and growing up. Appearances are still deceptive, even when you think there’s nothing else they can hide. This isn’t just a teenage detective series. This is Lily’s life, loves, fixes and dilemmas as well as her private investigation work. Lily is real; sharp, witty, cool, and vulnerable. She’s potentially me at sixteen, or you; and the humour will keep you laughing even as you’re desperately flipping the pages to find out what happens next. Q - Can readers collect the whole series in one go? A - Hop over to my author page here at Amazon to find out how to be the first in the know, and see a full list of my available titles under other pen names. And thanks for reading!

Henry discovers a horse with a scar on his forehead in his front yard. He will discover later this is a hornless unicorn, the victim of a brutal attack that happened over a hundred years ago in a land called Altara. The horse carries him to Altara where the first person he meets is an old man called Papo. After traveling for two days with Papo his suspicions are confirmed, Papo is plotting to use Henry for his own purposes and then to “be rid of him and the other boy.” Henry sets off alone, struggling with whether or not he can be hurt or even killed in this alternate world. At the end of each day in Altara Henry falls asleep only to wake up in his own bed in his own suburban life. At home he has two friends, Jamal and Fred and a little brother named Larry. While Henry is struggling to understand his alternate world he is also struggling with the challenges of his middle school life. A great deal hangs on a chess match against the coach. Also, Jamal falls in love but needs Henry and Fred to go to the dance with his girlfriend’s best friends. This is Henry’s first middle school relationship and his stomach is tied in knots. He also must face his anger issues and his fear that dweebdom is an inescapable black hole. Back in Altara Henry meets Anree who in a few days will be raised up as the Tara, the leader of the land of Altara. They are identical, this was the fact Papo and his friends planned to use to unseat the new Tara.Henry and Anree decide they must find the lost key to the Gates of Altara and heal the ancient wrong done to the unicorn in order to fully establish the true Tara. The horn that was brutally taken from the unicorn a hundred years ago has been hidden in plain sight in the apartment of one of Papo’s co-conspirators, and amazingly Henry’s grandfather has the key to the Gates. Henry not Anree, is the true heir to the role of the Tara. Through all this Henry discovers he can accept his assigned place in school as a dweeb with a chessboard or decide he will be something more. He realizes the reason he doesn’t have many friends is he is a lousy friend. He learns he must take responsibility for Henry. In the final pages Henry wakes up in his bed at home to find his mother reading his journal. She wants to know if this is fact or fiction and whether Henry or Anree has come home to her.

Henry thinks he is the King of Dweebs. He wants to escape. He wants to be?Well maybe that's the problem he doesn't know what else to be or how to get there. A hornless unicorn takes him to a land called Altara. In Altara, Henry will meet his identical other, discover he is the real heir to rule Altara and try not to get killed. He also finds a fire in his gut. He finds out what it is to be alive. His greatest challenge is to sustain that fire in middle school where he feels he is suffocating. Where he will play coach in two chess matches, go to his first dance, have his first middle school romance (and break up) and face the impossible challenge of climbing the rope hanging from the gym ceiling. Stuart weaves together the two worlds and the life of Henry and his identical other into 12 days of very realistic living. By the end Henry knows who he is. He knows what it means to be Henry on Fire living in suburbia.

Henry thinks he is the King of Dweebs. He wants to escape. He wants to be?Well maybe that's the problem he doesn't know what else to be or how to get there. A hornless unicorn takes him to a land called Altara. In Altara, Henry will meet his identical other, discover he is the real heir to rule Altara and try not to get killed. He also finds a fire in his gut. He finds out what it is to be alive. His greatest challenge is to sustain that fire in middle school where he feels he is suffocating. Where he will play coach in two chess matches, go to his first dance, have his first middle school romance (and break up) and face the impossible challenge of climbing the rope hanging from the gym ceiling. Stuart weaves together the two worlds and the life of Henry and his identical other into 12 days of very realistic living. By the end Henry knows who he is. He knows what it means to be Henry on Fire living in suburbia.

In Celahir, the magical land where the Light Elves and the Dark Elves live, the four gemstones of the Elven Bow have been stolen by the Dark Elves. Without those gemstones, the barrier between the human world and Celahir is deteriorating and the balance between good and evil in both worlds is tipping toward evil. The first of the gemstones, the Carnelian, was recovered by Aidan, Maggie, Nana, and Beebop with help from their Light Elf friends during their first trip to Celahir. Now, the stakes are even higher when the elves return to the human world to ask for help recovering the second gemstone, the Amethyst, and the humans discover that Mike – Aidan and Maggie’s father – has been kidnapped by the evil elf Naesse! The humans, accompanied by Aidan and Maggie’s mother, Laura, return to Celahir to rescue Mike and recover the Amethyst. All they have to do is defeat the giant that guards the gemstone…