Books with title The Crystal Mural

Eleven-year-old Ava has a fantastic imagination, a goal to find her long lost father, and this summer, a full scholarship to Graham Alzondo’s Fantastical Camp—a camp bursting with surprises… 1. “Camp” is an exciting new adventure with espy dragons, candy stores in treetops, and magical axis dust. 2. Evil Solovar has cursed this place with everlasting misery. 3. The rare (and breakable) Crystal Egg—which can answer ONE question—is waiting to be found. Ava is really excited about #1. She wants to help fix #2, but then she learns her father is here, and without phones or internet, the only way to find him is with #3. The Crystal Egg is now the most sought after relic—authorities want the Egg to end the curse, Solovar wants it to become king, and Ava wants it to find her father. With a little help from her friends, Owen and William, Ava sets off on a quest to find the Egg. But if she finds it, Ava will have to choose: break the curse—for everyone, or … reunite herself with her father.

'Vivid, enthralling, absolutely first-class' -- Daily Mail 'Mary Stewart brilliantly recreates the Britain of the fifth century' -- Books And Bookmen 'Her style is simple yet vivid, displaying a love of words and the sounds they make, and her story is poetically imaginative' -- Daily Telegraph 'A deft colourful ... re-creation of Merlin's early life' -- Sunday Times 'A fascinating story which lays a firm hold on the imagination' -- The Scotsman 'Mary Stewart lightens the Dark Ages with legend, pure invention and a lively sense of history

Four young children find a hidden cave that houses a space/time warp. The four embark on a series of adventures, taking them back through time and space. They make three separate visits to the cave and have three distinctly different adventures. They become trapped in a Saturn V rocket on a journey into space. They also help to search for a prehistoric child who is in grave danger. Then finally, they try to save Queen Cleopatra from kidnappers in ancient Egypt.

Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great natural gift - the Sight. Against a background of invasion and imprisonment, wars and conquest, Merlin emerges into manhood, and accepts his dramatic role in the New Beginning - the coming of King Arthur.