Books with title The Whispering Swarm

Joe and his little sister Annie escape from a farm where they are treated like slaves to make their way to Manchester in hopes of reuniting with their mother. They get help from a kind stranger and a mysterious dog-woman before finding a place with a traveling fair. Trouble is, Annie fits in with the fair—especially once they learn she can speak to the dead—but Joe doesn’t. He leaves her behind to join a street gang, but living rough is more dangerous than he thought, and he ends up being taken in by a rich man as a social experiment on educating the poor. The food and housing aren’t enough to contain Joe, though, and he flees to the employ of a reformist newspaperman, vowing to find Annie again. In true Victorian fashion, this epic novel is sure to grip readers from the first page.

There is a ghost! shouts Jacob. "We have to help him before it's too late!"When Jacob is forced to stay with his aunt while his parents leave town, he discovers that he and Aunt Maggie are not the only two in the house. Teaming up with new friends Jessica and Zack, the three try to unlock the mystery surrounding Maggie's house and the tragedy of a young boy who lived there years ago.There's a reclusive man living down by the river at the infamous Hawk's Manor house, who may hold the key to solving the secrets from the past. But Jacob and the others are too afraid to go near it.Time is running out and they must help the young spirit before one of them suffers the same fate.

The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden. It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing boat can take them across the sound to neutral Sweden. The soldiers patrolling their street are growing suspicious, so Carl and his mama must make their way to the harbor despite a cloudy sky with no moon to guide them. Worried about their safety, Anett devises a clever and unusual plan for their safe passage to the harbor.

Take a relaxing walk through the beautiful, magical Whispering Wood in this tranquil Time to Sleep Story. It is written specifically to help your child drop off to sleep at bedtime. The story gives your child's imagination a landscape to explore as they enter the wood and follow the winding paths with leaves crunching beneath their feet. Hear the sound of birdsong in the air and the wind rustling through the tree tops. A gurgling, bubbling stream adds to the gentle ambience while a sea of bluebells covers the woodland floor. Their sweet fragrance fills the air as you imagine their tiny flowers tinkling with the sound of distant bells. As the walk progresses, the Whispering Wood reveals more secrets. The friendly wood gnomes come out to play. They lead the way beneath an ancient oak tree to their secret underground railway. The story ends with a ride on their steam train as it clickety-clacks its way through green tunnels beneath the woodland above, travelling off to the land of sweet dreams...

With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth. London has always been a central character in Moorcock's work, from the high-literary fiction of MOTHER LONDON to the roof gardens of Jerry Cornelius.Now return to London just after the war, a city desperately trying to get back on its feet. And one young boy, Michael Moorcock, who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood - a job on Fleet Street, the first stirrings of his interest in writing - and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar, we see a version of Moorcock's life that is simultaneously a biography and a story. Mixing elements of his real life with his adventures in a parallel London peopled with highwaywomen, musketeers and magicians, this is Moorcock at his dazzling, mercurial best.