Island of the Aunts
Title | Island of the Aunts PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Puffin Books |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2001-09-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780142300497 |
When the kindly old aunts decide that they need help caring for creatures who live on their hidden island, they know that adults can't be trusted. What they need are a few special children who can keep a secret-a secret as big as a magical island. And what better way to get children who can keep really big secrets, than to kidnap them! (After all, some children just plain need to be kidnapped.) Don't miss this wildly inventive and funny read from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson.
The Secret of Platform 13
Title | The Secret of Platform 13 PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0330477692 |
Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island . . . It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before. But the prince has become a horrible rich boy called Raymond Trottle, who doesn't understand magic and is determined not to be rescued. Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, The Secret of Platform 13 is an exciting magical adventure from Eva Ibbotson, the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea. 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' Philip Pullman
The Star of Kazan
Title | The Star of Kazan PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0330477404 |
Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .
Which Witch?
Title | Which Witch? PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0330477757 |
Which Witch? is a brilliantly witty tale of magic and marriage by Eva Ibbotson, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. 'Find me a witch!' cried Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North. Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers – but which witch will she be? To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition. Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats. The magic of gentle Belladonna, the white witch, goes hopelessly wrong. She produces perfumed flowers instead of snakes. And bats roost in her golden hair instead of becoming blood-sucking vampires. Poor Belladonna longs to be an evil enchantress – but how? 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' - Philip Pullman.
An Island of Our Own
Title | An Island of Our Own PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Nicholls |
Publisher | Scholastic Fiction |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2015-04-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407145312 |
From one of the brightest talents in teen fiction and the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship.
One Dog and His Boy
Title | One Dog and His Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2011-07-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407131605 |
All Hal ever wanted was a dog - but a dog would damage the expensive carpets in his parents' glamorous home, and they refuse to consider one. That's until they discover Easy Pets, a dog-rental agency. Fleck the terrier arrives on Hal's birthday, and Hal is overjoyed. But when Hal discovers to his horror that his dog is to be returned, he runs away... along with a bunch of pedigree hounds, all joyfully escaping from Easy Pets! Soon Hal and his dogs - including Otto the wise St Bernard, and the fierce and excitable Pekinese Li-Chee - are being chased across the country by ruthless pursuers. Helped by a travelling circus and some orphanage children, can they race to freedom? Written in the timeless tradition of 101 Dalmations, this is a tail-wagging grand adventure that every dog-lover will adore. Praise for Eva Ibbotson: "Readers of classic children's fiction will be familiar with the bliss that steals over one when a new Eva Ibbotson novel is published." Amanda Craig, The Times "Eva Ibbotson weaves a magic like no other. Once enchanted, always enchanted." Michael Morpurgo "This kind of fun will never fail to delight." Philip Pullman
Truman's Aunt Farm
Title | Truman's Aunt Farm PDF eBook |
Author | Jama Kim Rattigan |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780395816561 |
When Truman sends away for an ant farm, a birthday gift from his favorite aunt, he gets more than he bargained for. A School Library Journal Best Book of 1994. Full color.