Books with author RJ Biggar

Welcome to The Magical Gypsy Forest When Lisa and her younger brother, Peter, move from central London to the country, they expect things are going to be different. They might even be the only teens in the tiny village. But they soon meet Molly and Fitch. These gypsy twins are very definitely different. More than that, they’re strange, perhaps even magical. And they aren’t from the village. Fitch rashly says they come from Foggy Fen, a village protected by a tiger. Tigers in England? Silly nonsense! Peter can’t find any village called Foggy Fen on his computer, even on the most detailed local maps. Challenged, Peter and Lisa follow the twins into an almost impenetrable forest behind their house. Together, they explore this forbidding wilderness, finding it to be full of life of the strangest kind, including that tiger, which turns out to be all too real — and very nearly deadly. Their discoveries make Lisa confront her own fears, while she navigates her foolhardy brother safely through the dangers of the Fen.If you like this book, check out the sequel, when Lisa and Peter join the circus the next summer. The Magical Circus Indigo Who hasn’t wanted to join the circus? Teenagers Lisa and her younger brother, Peter, get a chance to spend the summer with The Magical Circus Indigo, a small circus touring southeastern England. Joining acrobats and clowns, snake charmers and animal trainers from all over the world, Lisa and Peter quickly learn that the circus has moments of fun, but it is also work, from before dawn to late in the day. And it is a business. The circus is having money trouble because of declining audiences. Making things worse, someone in the circus is stealing jewelry from the spectators. The police are threatening to close the circus unless this stops. When the circus gets a chance to perform in central London, the manager jumps at it. If they can carry it off, the publicity it brings could save the circus. But the gypsy fortune teller warns them that she sees signs of a disaster in the making—and she is never wrong. It’s a summer when Lisa learns what it means to be a young woman, and cocky young Peter begins to understand that he doesn’t know everything.Other books by RJ Biggar: That Night: A baby is born in BethlehemThe Matilda Rose

Welcome to The Magical Circus Indigo Who hasn’t wanted to join the circus? Teenagers Lisa and her younger brother, Peter, get a chance to spend the summer with The Magical Circus Indigo, a small circus touring southeastern England. Joining acrobats and clowns, snake charmers and animal trainers from all over the world, Lisa and Peter quickly learn that the circus has moments of fun, but it is also work, from before dawn to late in the day. And it is a business. The circus is having money trouble because of declining audiences. Making things worse, someone in the circus is stealing jewelry from the spectators. The police are threatening to close the circus unless this stops. When the circus gets a chance to perform in central London, the manager jumps at it. If they can carry it off, the publicity it brings could save the circus. But the gypsy fortune teller warns them that she sees signs of a disaster in the making—and she is never wrong. It’s a summer when Lisa learns what it means to be a young woman, and cocky young Peter begins to understand that he doesn’t know everything.If you like this book, read about how Lisa and Peter found the circus hidden in a forest during the previous summer. The Magical Gypsy ForestWhen Lisa and her younger brother, Peter, move from central London to the country, they expect things are going to be different. They might even be the only teens in the tiny village. But they soon meet Molly and Fitch. These gypsy twins are very definitely different. More than that, they’re strange, perhaps even magical. And they aren’t from the village. Fitch rashly says they come from Foggy Fen, a village protected by a tiger. Tigers in England? Silly nonsense! Peter can’t find any village called Foggy Fen on his computer, even on the most detailed local maps. Challenged, Peter and Lisa follow the twins into an almost impenetrable forest behind their house. Together, they explore this forbidding wilderness, finding it to be full of life of the strangest kind, including that tiger, which turns out to be all too real — and very nearly deadly. Their discoveries make Lisa confront her own fears, while she navigates her foolhardy brother safely through the dangers of the Fen.

The empty spaces of the Australian Outback are magical. The land is sacred to the clans of both Man and the animals that explored Australia in the Dreamtime before history. Then, Earth is new, and Man and the animals can live in harmony with each other--if they will. Life is not easy. The ground is barren and water scarce. Animals eat each other. And evil does exist. Friends need to stay together to survive. Always looming nearby is that ultimate evil: the dreaded Goori Goori Bird… Meet Piddle, the playful platypus lass just looking for mates to have fun with, Lulu, a shy koala, Gru, the out-and-about young kangaroo, and Cookie, a crazy kookaburra. Then, there’s Crank—or Charles, as he prefers to be called—the biggest, meanest crocodile ever. He has a sense of humor second to none, so he thinks. Man befriends them, sharing his ancestral Dreamtime stories and learning their ways in return while the group does a walk-about in the Red Center of Australia. Along comes Burtie, a wombat who already knows everything that anyone should know. And tiny Winston, the eccentric echidna, following a spider web to find the Goori Goori Bird--and kill it. Come along for an adventure in Dreamtime.

The empty spaces of the Australian Outback are magical. In the isolation stands the Spirit Rock of Uluru, a sacred place to both the clans of Man and the animals that explore Australia in the Dreamtime before history. Then, Earth is new, and Man and the animals live in harmony with each other. Yet life is not easy. The ground is barren and water scarce. Animals eat each other. Friends need to stay together to survive. And always looming nearby is the dreaded evil...the Goori Goori Bird. Meet Piddle, the playful platypus lass just looking for mates to have fun with, Lulu, a shy koala, Gru, the out-and-about young kangaroo, and Cookie, the crazy kookaburra. Then, there’s Crank—or Charles, as he prefers to be called—the biggest, meanest, crocodile ever. He has a sense of humor second to none, so he thinks. Man befriends them all, sharing his ancestral Dreamtime stories and learning their ways in return while the group does a walk-about in the Red Center of Australia. Along comes Burtie, a wombat who already knows everything that anyone should know. And Winston, the eccentric echidna, following a spider web to kill the Goori Goori Bird. Come along for an adventure in Dreamtime.