Books with author Nick Mann

on: "I have light brown hair. My eyes are dark brown. My favorite color is blue. I am great at playing computer games. I am great at doing jigsaw puzzles. Best of all, I like my dog, Buttercup! One more thing about me is, I have autism." This is how 8-year-old Danny introduces himself to the world. Danny attends a special education class for kids with autism and other special needs. When his teacher announces that they are going to be in a talent show, all of the kids are excited! But will they be able to pull it off? Siblings, friends and classmates of children with autism, as well as kids who are on the autism spectrum themselves, will enjoy this humorous story about a class full of super stars.

"I have light brown hair. My eyes are dark brown. My favorite color is blue. I am great at playing computer games. I am great at doing jigsaw puzzles. Best of all, I like my dog, Buttercup! One more thing about me is, I have autism." This is how 8-year-old Danny introduces himself to the world. Danny attends a special education class for kids with autism and other special needs. When his teacher announces that they are going to be in a talent show, all of the kids are excited! But will they be able to pull it off? Siblings, friends and classmates of children with autism, as well as kids who are on the autism spectrum themselves, will enjoy this humorous story about a class full of super stars.

To begin with he couldn't make out anything in the shadows thrown by the trees, but then he saw a black shape take form in the grey... It was Michael's idea. Excluded from school and reckless since the death of his father, he has refused to listen to Tony's protest. 'Time to pick up the past.' he said. They cycled to the heath on a Friday. Tony played truant, lying to his parents - trying not to think of their faces already stretched taut by threatening financial disaster. Michael drew it from the water - a long-buried treasure dripping slime and algae. And with it came new conflict and new hope...

They stare through the bars; each framed by the cross-patterning of the metal; each its own portrait. Behind, there's the square of a window; the light breaking up the bars like heat. And as you look at the picture, you see all the grids and squares of the composition: how the four guys are boxed and packaged and contained. Elliot's father was a war photographer, renowned for 'shooting the truth'. He died is strange circumstances in Paris. The mystery has never been solved. Jaspreet is Elliot's friend, target of the school bullies. He relies on Elliot's unstinting, loyal friendship. Now these two troubled threads of Elliot's life are drawing inexorably together.

In their new home in the country, Graham and his small sister, Matty, sense terrifying secrets are hidden there. Graham's father works on a state-of-the-art computer-guided weapons system for the future - shortly to be shown to the big players in the international weapons market. Troubled by the shifting presences and his small sister's conversations with an unseen young man she calls Paul, Graham looks for the key to the past. What he uncovers shakes the foundations of his existence: a secret First World War research establishment using British military prisoners as guinea-pigs, and a young man executed for speaking out. Past and future come together when his father is arrested for treason: the codes for the new weapons' operating system have been published on the Internet. By his father? Or, as Graham believes, the final act of the ghost of 'a young man who felt he'd failed in his own life and has seen the demons driven away in ours .

In their new home in the country, Graham and his small sister, Matty, sense terrifying secrets are hidden there. Graham's father works on a state-of-the-art computer-guided weapons system for the future - shortly to be shown to the big players in the international weapons market. Troubled by the shifting presences and his small sister's conversations with an unseen young man she calls Paul, Graham looks for the key to the past. What he uncovers shakes the foundations of his existence: a secret First World War research establishment using British military prisoners as guinea-pigs, and a young man executed for speaking out. Past and future come together when his father is arrested for treason: the codes for the new weapons' operating system have been published on the Internet. By his father? Or, as Graham believes, the final act of the ghost of 'a young man who felt he'd failed in his own life and has seen the demons driven away in ours ...'