Books with title Such a Dangerous Game

This eagerly awaited addition to Joan Aiken's award-winning Wolves series takes us on Dido's most imaginative adventure yet!Dido Twite has been sailing the high seas, chasing after Lord Herodsfoot, who is scouring the globe for new and interesting games. Now he's needed back in London, in the hope that his games will help King James, who is lying ill and wretched with a mysterious disease no doctor can cure. Dido's search has taken her to Aratu, a mysterious spice island where foreigners seldom venture--maybe because of the deadly pearl snakes and sting monkeys there.When Dido lands at Aratu, she realizes that there is something even more dangerous than poisonous snakes on the island. She soon makes friends among the Forest People and learns of a plot to overthrow the island's king, who lives--deaf and sick--at his palace on the Cliffs of Death. Will Dido and her friends be able to reach him in time?

The Battle Continues!This is a struggle that has been waged since the beginning of time. Now it is your turn to defend the world against evil molecules and elements. The third book in the Adventures of the Elements book series forces Catherine and her brothers and sisters to confront their greatest fears.When does a game become a dangerous battle for life? When the forces of the element world collide in a struggle for control, games are no longer safe. An ordinary football scrimmage forces two brothers into a nightmarish flight for survival. A simple pool party leaves three sisters and their friends swimming for their lives. In a desperate attempt to save humanity, the five brothers and sisters join the powers of the Rings of Enlightenment with the forces of the element guardians to destroy the cunning, villainous Ozzie Ozone and Clifton Chlorine. Yet, this monstrous molecule and element prove to be deadly, continuously using the secrets of the chemical realm to strike at the five siblings and element guardians.Injured and confused, the human guardians seek refuge in a hospital only to stumble onto a murder and an evil doctor’s lethal scheme. Rapidly, their refuge disintegrates into a hospital of horrors. Only the bravest and most cunning human guardians dare venture into the terrifying evils lurking within Dangerous Games. This is education through entertainment. Knowledge is power.

'Larry Writer has delivered a gem in Dangerous Games' - Roland Perry, author of Bill the Bastard'Writer has faithfully recreated the 1936 Olympics - the most controversial in history... Hitler, the host, represented the darkest evil...those Australians, the purest innocence.' - Harry Gordon, author of Australia and the Olympic GamesThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in Berlin. Believing sporting competition was the best antidote to tyranny, they put their qualms on hold. Anything to be part of the greatest show on earth.Dangerous Games drops us into a front row seat at the 100,000-capacity Olympic stadium to witness some of the finest sporting performances of all time - most famously the African American runner Jesse Owens, who eclipsed the best athletes the Nazis could pit against him in every event he entered. The Australians, with their antiquated training regimes and amateur ethos, valiantly confronted the intensely focused athletes of Germany, the United States and Japan. Behind the scenes was cut-throat wheeling and dealing, defiance of Hitler, and warm friendships among athletes.What they did and saw in Berlin that hot, rainy summer influenced all that came after until their dying days.

When I was in high school I and a few friends did séances.I was the one doing the talking and sometimes they replied.I have always been fascinated by paranormal activities and I used to take a lot of notes on what had just happened.I recently found my notes after over fifteen years and I found out some of those experiences were astonishing: when I was young I felt involved and I didn't really think too much about what was going on, but after so many years and knowing what happened next, it still gives me the chillsFrom those notes this short novel was born...

Kennedy Thatcher is leaving Piney Bluff, Texas. In September, she wanted nothing more than to go back home to California, but things have changed. Two weeks ago Kennedy broke Rule #1. She used her gift to save a life. Her secret is no longer secret. Her mother once tried to warn her – using her ability was dangerous. No one could know what she could do. Now Kennedy is paying the price. Two days ago Tanner Shields helped Kennedy rescue a friend by skipping school and driving to New Orleans. His entire future is at risk when he’s benched during the most important football game of his life. He’s lost the chance for a scholarship and a way out of town. Two hours ago Kennedy made a bargain to save Tanner’s future. When she agrees to return home with her father, she’s forced to ask herself the most important question of all – who can she trust?

This eagerly awaited addition to Joan Aiken's award-winning Wolves series takes us on Dido's most imaginative adventure yet!Dido Twite has been sailing the high seas, chasing after Lord Herodsfoot, who is scouring the globe for new and interesting games. Now he's needed back in London, in the hope that his games will help King James, who is lying ill and wretched with a mysterious disease no doctor can cure. Dido's search has taken her to Aratu, a mysterious spice island where foreigners seldom venture--maybe because of the deadly pearl snakes and sting monkeys there.When Dido lands at Aratu, she realizes that there is something even more dangerous than poisonous snakes on the island. She soon makes friends among the Forest People and learns of a plot to overthrow the island's king, who lives--deaf and sick--at his palace on the Cliffs of Death. Will Dido and her friends be able to reach him in time?

Kevin's older brother, Adam, is a bad lot. Adam and his mates burn out a car they've stolen, trash the local community centre, and to cap it all, Kevin discovers a gun under the floorboards in his room. And then there's Uncle Davey, even more of a bad lot than Adam, who's just out of prison and already back to his old habits. Kevin makes friends with Conor, who lives in a swanky house with his mother, a bank manager. When Kevin discovers that Adam and Uncle Davey are planning a tiger kidnapping, and that the victims are going to be Conor and his mother, he comes up with an ingenious plan to foil the plot, rescue his friend and dispatch no-good Uncle Davey for good. A tightly plotted and absorbing realistic novel with a serious-minded and likeable teenage protagonist, who gets himself caught in a web of crime and deception - and, both cleverly and bravely, solves one problem after another to come out triumphant at the end.