Terence Blacker es un autor cuyas primeras aspiraciones de convertirse en jockey moldearon su perspectiva del mundo. Su obra a menudo transmite un sentido de aventura y determinación, reflejando una pasión por la velocidad y el movimiento. Aunque su camino profesional tomó un rumbo diferente, su estilo de escritura atractivo y su interés por las narrativas dinámicas permanecen.
Hasta el día en que su primo Sam llegó de Estados Unidos y vino a vivir con él, la vida de Matthew Burton era sencilla y agradable. Pero Sam resulta ser un chico rebelde, arrogante y maleducado que convierte su existencia en un verdadero infierno. ¿Por qué no darle un buen escarmiento? Una divertídisima historia que refleja las relaciones de grupo y la fuerza de la amistad.
A story of love, war and rats, pitting their world against their mortal enemy: humankind...
Matthew Burton's life has been fine until his American cousin crash-lands into it. Sam was only ever a distant rumour, a hippy kid who travels around the States with his wacky mother. Now he's an orphan, dumped suddenly on the Burtons' doorstep. According to Sam, everything in England sucks, and pretty soon he's making trouble for Matthew and his friends. They want revenge and Operation Samantha is born. For Sam small, long-haired and blond is the perfect secret weapon in the war at school between the boys and a gang of snooty girls. And when Sam sets about rewriting the rules for how boys and girls behave, he discovers an entirely new side to his personality. Soon it's not only Sam that is changing ...BOY2GIRL is one of the funniest comic novels you will ever read. A classic cross-dressing comedy like Some Like It Hot, set in a contemporary school.
Ms Wiz is Class Fives favourite teacher, who also happens to be a paranormal operative! Podge is learning an instrument but he's terrible. Then he meets a street singer playing the ukelele: it's Ms Wiz of course! And in joining her band, he finds himself in a TV talent competition! Rock on, Ms Wiz!
Following on from "Ms Wiz Spells Trouble" and "In Stitches with Ms Wiz", this book finds Ms Wiz faced with many challenging episodes involving kidnapped cats, strange criminals and a dimwitted copper. As usual, she's mad, good and has the children of Class 3 on her side.
Jack should never have played with Ms Wiz's new time machine—now he's vanished in a puff of smoke. To rescue him, Nabila takes off on a weird journey into history and discovers that even time flies when you're travelling with Ms Wiz.
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Tri, Jamie and Marko are outsiders - united by their love of music. Their band Eye Trouble uses the school's Old Music Room for band practice. Lately, however, weird stuff has been happening there... Things go missing, a phone's memory is wiped, papers are found scattered over the floor. And then someone trashes the whole room.
When Nicky Moms is sent to boarding school, his parents hope that he will make a success of his life. But a few weeks later he is on the run, his life in tatters. He meets sympathetic Carla, who agrees to let him stay in the squat she shares with a prostitute, thief and drug-dealer. The others worry that Nicky will attract police attention, but they are forced to tolerate him by Scag. Carla's boyfriend, who has other, more sinister plans for Nicky... A compelling teenage story with the appeal of bestselling, controversial novels like Melvyn Burgess' JUNK
The most popular magical character in fiction for younger readers appears in her sixteenth amazing adventure. In a special, double-length story, Ms Wiz's father, King Wisdom, demands that she take over his duties as Supreme Sovereign of the Kingdom of Paranormal Magic and Utter Eternal Mystery. But is Ms Wiz ready to become Queen . . . ?
Jeden kůň a jedna dívka proti celému světu…. Jay je ve škole za outsiderku, doma si připadá osamělá. Jediný čas, kdy se cítí být doopravdy šťastná, jsou chvíle strávené jízdou na koni. Potom co uteče z domova, aby pracovala v dostihové stáji, osud jí přivede do cesty nádhernou, ale nepochopenou klisnu Manhattan. Její dostihová kariéra skončila a život se ocitl v sázce. Jay i Manhattan potřebují dostat novou šanci. Společně se snaží obstát v nelítostném světě dostihů, kde výhra nebo prohra dokážou člověku i zvířeti nadobro změnit život.
