Books with title Stranger

In a tiny village at the end of the world, the young misfit Burdock is summoned to the service of a great and distant emperor. On his journey, the boy is awakened to his own gift, the talent for understanding the speech of animals, and he comes into contact with many who would use his abilities for their own ends. Yet after arduous travel, Burdock arrives at the capital and the emperor's palace, only to find that the land is held together by a dark secret. How Burdock navigates this secret marks his passage from the powerlessness of childhood to adult realization, to the knowledge that, of all creatures, only people can choose what they become.

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR JACK CASTLE!!!""For nearly a decade, Jack Castle has been crafting thrilling adventures for my theme park and guiding millions of guests through them. So, it comes as no surprise his talent as a storyteller has expanded to delight readers worldwide through his Stranger World book series." -Gary NortonOwner of Silverwood Theme Park(The largest Theme Park in the Northwest)“Jack Castle-style’ is officially a thing! The lines of imagination and reality never have been so blurred as they are in the amazing yet sinister theme park so creatively envisioned by Jack Castle!” -Joe Butler, Spokesman Review Welcome To... STRANGER WORLD!!!No one really knows how the world became this way: Flying Steamships commandeered by snarky holograms, angry mechanized misfits stalking the crumbling cities in-between themed lands, and aquatic dinosaurs hunting underwater palaces in search of their next meal. Nor does anyone understand why people from different time periods keep showing up in this terrifying, upside-down world. Teenage Maddie doesn’t care about any of those things. Her only concern is to find her parents, who are lost somewhere within this frightening, mixed up universe. "Mum, Dad… where are you?"

When calamity looms on Earth, hundreds of settlers are sent to three habitable planets. Fifty years elapse before Earth is able to dispatch an emissary -- Strang -- to see if they have survived.On the first planet he finds an unspoiled paradise of great natural beauty where hardy settlers, among them Irish, American, Scandinavian and German colonies, have survived and flourished although threatened by prehistoric creatures and practitioners of the black arts as well as some of their own members who have proved to be "bad seed." Strang has two remarkable androids to help him enforce the law but he also has to draw on his own powers of telepathy and astral travel, aided by two young women who also have The Gift.They endure great trials, both physical and spiritual, in their struggle to tame this wild wonderful world so that other settlers might escape from.Earth before it becomes uninhabitable.

A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle.Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like a dream come true. She doesn’t even mind being the only black girl in the troupe—that is, until she is told she’ll never be a classical dancer. It’s then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp, the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he’s a grown man with a family, but she can’t stop wishing for more to their friendship than simply pastor and parishioner. Cynthia Voigt’s incomparable mastery of character and community shines forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.

A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love. 'What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky, for the first time, a secret assignation . . . and I met Meredith Robinson . . .' Max Jackson tells the story of his friendship with Westie, from its wild, head-smacking glory to its bitter misunderstandings. In just one tumultuous year, a volatile cocktail - two young men, two women, love and hate and the weight of the past - changes that friendship forever. Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Honour Book Prize at the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards