Books with title Change

Why are people in Josephine’s Arizona town dying of spontaneous combustion? Jo doesn’t know, but she’s worried she’s next. Her own temperature has been rising lately—really rising. Some nights running for miles is all she can do to extinguish the flame she feels blazing within her—and how does she not break a sweat? Jo feels like a major freak, but when death hits close to home, she realizes she’s less alone than she thinks. Before anyone else gets hurt, it’s up to Jo to uncover the source of a transformation that has made her powerful, strong…and dangerous. The pulse-quickening first book in a series by debut author Daphne Bristow will leave fans of Ally Condie, Scott Westerfield, and the X-Men wanting more.

Lucas and his father are not close. In fact they hardly see each other, which is just fine with Lucas. When he travels to the remote fishing lodge his father manages, Lucas is left once again, this time with a lodge worker, a girl named Sumi. She makes it pretty clear that Lucas is on his own. But she does take him fishing and seems to be warming up to him. Then, in a horrible sequence of misjudgments, Sumi is shot in the foot. With no radio and no phone, Lucas and Sumi are truly alone. Fog rolls over the islands and it's up to Lucas to get Sumi to medical help, a day's journey by boat up the inlet.

Seven-year-old Ben loves his teacher, Mrs Peacock. She lets the children eat their fruit in the playground, and go out to play early if they are good (admittedly not very often). But, best of all, she tells the most fantastic stories about magic conkers and carrots with legs. And the toys in the classroom come to life at night. Ben knows this is true as, each morning, Mrs Peacock shows the children the rubbish the toys have left behind.When Mrs Peacock starts to act rather strangely, Ben and his friends wonder what’s going to happen next. They can’t understand why they have to take their swimming things in for the second time that week, when they have been to the pool two days before. Ben’s mum already thinks that Mrs Peacock is a barmy old bat, and this latest instruction seems to confirm her suspicions.Mrs Peacock might seem barmy, but she is so fed up with a noisy class that she is willing to try anything to keep them quiet. She has noticed that the only time the children aren’t noisy is when they go for their swimming lessons, so she hatches a desperate plan to improve her life in school. A plan that involves a hosepipe, an open skylight, twenty-five children and an awful lot of water.

Set mostly in Cornwall, Sea Change is the story of a girl with a burning ambition which appears all set to realise itself until threatened by disruption in the family. Just when she thinks things will stay the same, life events change unpredictably. How is this reflected within the dynamics of a family?Peer relationships with schoolfriends, sporting ambitions and family trauma provide the backdrop to a dramatic seaside adventure and missing person mystery … with a strong hint of the supernatural. Events at the end of the novel are quite distant from those at the beginning; however, the sustaining element throughout is the ambition of the heroine which demonstrates that persistence and dedication can lead to achievement and fulfilment. Suitable for KS3, but can be enjoyed by readers aged 7 to adult.

Cateline has returned from the sea to find Albion in more danger than ever. Mordred and Morgana have been imprisoned and Arthur is falling into madness. An army threatens to invade from across the sea and enemies from the water are nothing compared to enemies that lurk on land. Cateline must discover who her enemies are and what they want from her and Albion before it's too late and everyone suffers.

Sea Change follows the adventures of Oriana Belle Tavey who runs away to sea disguised as a boy called Jack Savage. Belle falls in love with the ill-fated and incompetent Edwin Goodenough, the captain of her first ship, but he discovers her secret and rejects her. However, pirates seize the ship and hold Belle captive - still in disguise. From then on Belle's life is in the hands of the enigmatic pirate captain - Orpheus and his mate, the ex-slave, Rich. Sea Change is a book for older teens and adults and forms the first part of a trilogy of stories concerning Oriana Belle Tavey.