Books with title The Werewolf's Daughter

The thrilling third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense spy fiction at its very finest. Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longs for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different.Her gift for mathematics means overprotective parents and college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation. And now, aged nineteen, she is beginning to understand what her parents intend for her. The terrifying role she is to play. Her only hope of escape lies with two sidelined and discredited spies: Trish Patterson and Philip Mangan. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the biggest mission they'll ever undertake."Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal."Charles Cumming

On the Scottish island of Skua, friendship develops between the lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl, Janey. Both possess a kind of second sight - Janey's is the ability to hear, feel and remember more than others, and Perdita's is the ominous legacy of her being a witch's daughter. When Janey's brother, Tom, starts investigating a cluster of mysterious events and suspicious characters, all three become entwined in an adventure of hidden jewels, desperate criminals and dangerous detection.Written in 1963, The Witch's Daughter showcases Nina Bawden's innate regard for the integrity of her young characters. As she has said: 'I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.' Hugely admired on publication by both reviewers and readers, it was described as 'thrilling' by the Times Literary Supplement.

'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingThe stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longed for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she was different. Pearl had a gift for mathematics, a college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation, and a family riven with anger and dysfunction. And it's only now, at nineteen years old, that she has started to understand what role she is to play. What her parents intend for her. For Pearl Tao, any hope of escape lies with two British spies: Trish Patterson, sidelined in disgrace, and Philip Mangan, blown and discredited - and following his own trail of corruption. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the most urgent, the most dangerous mission they'll ever undertake.'The final instalment of Brookes' Mangan trilogy secures its status as a classic'Telegraph (50 Best Books of 2017)'Riveting and accomplished'Sunday Times

On her first day at St. Mary’s School for Particularly Difficult Children, an unwanted girl named Georgie Tanner, and her bruised and bullied friend, Thomas Finnegan, sink through a bottomless puddle into a bizarre new world.Join Georgie and Thomas in this quirky, hair-raising adventure, as they learn the dizzying spy code of Batty Latin; play the potentially lethal sport of combat croquet; face a Dark Star who is bent on revenge; and in so doing, discover a secret about themselves they never would have believed!A novel for boys & girls aged 10-14.Approx 88,000 words, or 288 paperback pages. (The paperback retails for $16.95!)“A quirky, action-charged adventure to capture the imagination!”“Fantasy, adventure and comedy all rolled into one!”“A very exciting and very funny story … anyone who enjoyed Harry Potter, this would be a fantastic alternative.”"A book that restores the meaning of healthy fantasy."

Remembering who she once was, Caryss begins a new journey as she enters the King's City with a dark mage and a trusted friend. Once god-touched, the healer no longer knows which path is hers to choose or which the High Lord created. For half her life, she trained as a healer and vowed to harm none, yet now she carries a sacred dagger forged of ancient magic. On a mission to save the dying king, Caryss struggles against those who would use her as a weapon in the fight for the Cordisian throne. But she bears a weapon stronger than all: an unborn daughter who will be like none before her.

Once there was a time when the people of the earth did not have to tend the fields, for the Sun's daughters—Maize, Pumpkin, and Red Bean—walked among them, leaving lush crops wherever they stepped. But then headstrong Maize disobeyed her mother and was trapped by cold, lonely Silver, and the Sun vowed not to touch the earth again until Maize was returned. How the tiny pewee bird saved Maize and kept the people from starving is eloquently told in this tale, which, though based on an Iroquois legend, parallels the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter. The lovely, unusual images in the text are dramatically complemented by R. Gregory Christie's masterful paintings. Afterword.