Books with author Margot Thompson

Thirteen-year-old Ryan Hawthorn has spent his life on display as a human exhibit in the multi-eyed Pipe Men’s intergalactic zoo. When his father is accidentally poisoned, it’s up to Ryan and his seven-year-old sister, Becky, to scour the universe for the antidote. Along the way, they encounter many strange creatures—from the doglike Hottini to the spindly-legged, hairy Xaxor—and learn that the Pipe Men (or, as Becky calls them, “overgrown drainpipes”) are not kindly overlords, as they had been led to believe. It's not only the humans who are planning to rebel! A wildly imaginative middle grade space-travel adventure.

On a plaza at the edge of downtown San Francisco, Oz and Drew—Crown Princess of Pacifica and Crown Prince of Midlam—find Finn as he steps out of a broken down, burned out egg-shaped ship cloaked in the recesses of a portal. With no memory of who or from which When he is, Finn is a puzzle that time-traveler Oz wants to solve—with the help of Drew, a cat named Wick, and the extremely touch-phobic Emperor. As they come closer to assembling the puzzle, Oz realizes that the picture isn’t about Finn or When he's from, but about the Emperor she’s known all her life. As a teenager, he saved the life of six-year-old Crown Prince Jackson, but King Jackson is now forty-three and the Emperor a year younger, and no one knows where he came from or why he refuses to be touched—or his name. Oz describes him as an icon of the city and protector of all, but she’s beginning to wonder: who is the Emperor, really? With all of time at her beck and call, she’s determined to find out.

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless wars of modern times. Nearly 750,000 Italians and half as many Austro-Hungarian troops were killed. To maintain discipline in the face of desperation and low morale, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With great skill and pathos, Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front. A work of epic scale, The White War does justice to one of the most remarkable untold stories of the First World War.

Midlam is at war. The lives of the royal heirs are on the line. The First Minister of Florida wants Kansas, and wants Prince Andrew dead. The Queen of Pacifica’s deepest secret is revealed. Oz is abducted, and Drew will stop at nothing to find her. Fearing for the lives of the royal heirs, the Emperor takes them into hiding. He wants to protect them, but also wants to prepare them for battle. He trains them into finely honed athletes, not realizing that the time when they’ll need to test their strength is closing in on them. When Oz goes missing, Drew, Zed, and the Emperor set out to walk across Colorado and Kansas during winter and war, a journey that will propel the Emperor to become William Blackshear, and will bring him closer to the man who, if they get to Oz in time, will become the other half of Ozoo.

Midlam is at war. The lives of the royal heirs are on the line. The Queen of Pacifica's deepest secret is revealed. Oz is abducted, and Drew will stop at nothing to find her. During winter and war, the Emperor, Drew, Zed, and Wick, set out across Colorado and Kansas on foot in search of Oz. Drew wants nothing else but to find Oz; over the miles he becomes closer to the Emperor, learning who they are to each other, and becoming--if they find her in time--the other half of Ozoo.

Pacifica 2415 As told by Wick, Royal Cat, House of Blackshear On a plaza at the edge of downtown San Francisco, Finn—arriving with a broken down, burned out egg-shaped ship—steps out of a time portal and is found by teen royals Oz and Drew. With no memory of who or from which When he is, Finn becomes a puzzle that time-traveler Oz wants to solve, with the help of Drew, a cat named Wick, and the extremely touch-phobic Emperor. As they come closer to the answers Finn needs, Oz realizes that the question isn’t who Finn might be and When he’s from, but it’s about who the Emperor is—he saved her father’s life when he was a boy, but no one knows where he came from, or why he refuses to touch or be touched. Oz has described him as an icon of the city and protector of all, but now she wonders: where did he come from, and who is the Emperor, really?

Pacifica 2415 As told by Wick, Royal Cat, House of Blackshear On a plaza at the edge of downtown San Francisco, Finn—arriving with a broken down, burned out egg-shaped ship—steps out of a time portal and is found by teen royals Oz and Drew. With no memory of who or from which When he is, Finn becomes a puzzle that time-traveler Oz wants to solve, with the help of Drew, a cat named Wick, and the extremely touch-phobic Emperor. As they come closer to the answers Finn needs, Oz realizes that the question isn’t who Finn might be and When he’s from, but it’s about who the Emperor is—he saved her father’s life when he was a boy, but no one knows where he came from, or why he refuses to touch or be touched. Oz has described him as an icon of the city and protector of all, but now she wonders: where did he come from, and who is the Emperor, really?

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.