Books with author barber-shirley

Melanie, an English teenager, meets an Egyptian boy, Yusuf, while on holiday in Cairo. Soon she is caught up in his dangerous quest to the ancient city of Petra. With the help of Yusuf's eccentric camel, can they find the spell that will save Yusuf's people from an evil jinn?This is a fantasy adventure for ages nine plus.Shirley Harber was a finalist with this book in the Brit Writers' Awards and shortlisted in the Earlyworks Press Children's Book Competition.

IT’S KRYSTAL’S THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY —CAN HER LIFE GET ANY WORSE? It starts at one of her mum’s not-so-psychic sittings… and something unusual appears… “Jessie Parker, cowgirl and spirit guide—at your service.” Yep, a rootin’ tootin’ cowgirl from the Great Plains of the American Wild West. Turns out she has news just for Krystal—a mysterious inheritance from her great-great-great grandad, Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. Exciting, right? Except the news comes with a warning… “RED TOMAHAWK, A BAD SPIRIT—YOU’RE IN DANGER.” Danger? Krystal does not like the sound of that at all. Still, she wonders what Chief Sitting Bull left to her. When she discovers a mysterious key, her wonder grows—along with her own uncontrollable powers. At the end-of-year dance, her powers kick into high gear, and everyone sees—like dreamy Jason and horrible Donna. Even her best friend Lara thinks she’s gone crazy. Throw in a dangerous spirit hot on her trail, and it all makes for one bizarre birthday!

FROM INSIDE FLAP- "Here in Nottingham in the year 1628, John loves the orphan Joan, and does not wait for any man to say a prayer over their love....and promises that she shall follow him to the New World. Here is New Hampshire in America.....where men loyal to the king and his church build a happy land that honors both he spirit and the flesh, till the godly men of Massachusetts come with laws to still their neighbors laughter....where a strange little girl name Nan boasts that her mother was the first harlot in Portsmouth....and where Joan bears John a son and calls him Will. Here is London, when young Will returns to his father's England in the year of the plague....where a girl in a scarlet dress plays her luet and sings to keep her city gay, while the street-voices cray "Bring out your dead"...... historical novel; adventure; America; London; Massachusetts; England; New Hampshire.

This book was one of the author's most successful works, and became a Literary Guild selection. It is a story of the old world and the new, England and New Hampshire in the 1600s. John Scarlock came from a small farm near Sherwood Forest in England, traveling to build a home in the new world in a young New Hampshire. John's son Will promises him that he will return to England to decide whether the Scarlocks belong in the old world or the new. Will travels to England to attempt to get the commission for ships' masts. There he encounters the "Great Plague" and meets Doll, a girl singing in a tavern. Will and Doll are married at the Annual Goose Fair and later travel back to New Hampshire. Will realizes he has married the wrong girl, for there is Nan Knight. Who will keep Will Scarlock in the end?

This beautifully illustrated fairy book features the exquisitely detailed illustrations of Shirley Barber together with a stunning 3-D lenticular embedded in the front cover. It tells the story of a girl named Laura who believes there are fairies at the bottom of her garden—she has seen a little green door at the base of the willow tree, and thinks fairies might live on the other side. So she and her brother Daniel wait by the door, and sure enough, some fairies come out to greet them. Then they take them through to the other side, and so begin Laura and Daniel's adventures in Fairyland.