Books with title Soul Catcher

A delightfully imaginative and wonderfully illustrated children’s story filled with colourful description and pictures aplenty. A reading aloud children’s tale for parents and family alike peopled with a wonderful cast of unusual characters. Once a sound is made it does not simply disappear, as most people think. It becomes a stray sound, floating through the atmosphere before popping up in a variety of places, usually with alarming consequences. Since Chloe banged her head she's been seeing strange coloured clouds, which happen to be stray sounds. She's also met the Sound Catcher, whose job it is to gather up stray sounds so that can't go round scaring people. Seated on the Sound Machine, Chloe and the Sound Catcher zoom around the country capturing as many stray sounds as they can, including that of a dangerous dog that snarls and growls and frightens lots of children. At first Chloe finds it exciting. But things take a turn for the worse when she hears the stray sound of a mystery voice planning something diabolical. To discover what the plan entails they need to capture more stray sounds of the mystery voice. Back at the Sound Catcher's laboratory they listen to the stray sounds that they've captured and try to piece together all the clues. It soon becomes apparent that the crime of the century is about to be committed...the theft of the Crown Jewels. And to stop it happening Chloe and the Sound Catcher will have to pit their wits against Locksmith Larry, a criminal mastermind. But how can a twelve year old girl and the Sound Catcher, who no one but Chloe knows exists, possibly succeed in catching Locksmith Larry when every police force in the country has failed? All stray sounds are stored in test tubes. When one of the test tubes breaks the unexpected noise of the escaping stray sound it contains gives the Sound Catcher a nasty fright, and gives Chloe an idea…

We were delinquents, addicts, mental cases, orphans, and kids from broken homes." Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970s, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks. Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict. In the loosening of family ties, and faced with an inscrutable headmaster, uncommunicative parents, and a doomed first love, Kate makes a shadowy passage through her questioning adolescence... finding solace in a 'soul catcher' dangling inside a geodesic dome built by a quirky boy who surprises her with an unexpected friendship.