CHILDREN · FICTION
Barbara Mitchelhill
Barbara Mitchelhill is a children's author of the popular Damian Drooth series for younger children. She is winner of Solihull Children's Book Award for her book Storm Runners and the Stockton Book of the Year for Run Rabbit Run.
By the sixth leg of the game, we have accumulated the following objects: a ski pole, a bishop from a crystal chess set, a sheet of rice paper, a trilobite fossil, an aviator's helmet, and a live parrot.
— from Lost and found
Most acclaimed
Envy
2001
"As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas 'Veck' DelVecchio, Jr, grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father - while fighting his inner demons. Assigned to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him is both professional and arousingly personal. And Veck and Sophia have another link: Jim Heron, a mysterious stranger with too many answers ..."--Provided by publisher.
Spiders
Une série de premiers documentaires servant d'initiation à la lecture. Le court texte, qui tient en une phrase par page, est rédigé dans une large typographie et est accompagné de photographies attrayantes et judicieusement choisies. Des "infobulles" s'insèrent à l'occasion dans ces dernières, apportant des notions complémentaires en lien avec la thématique abordée. -- Une collection agréable qui facilite la tâche de l'apprenti lecteur de par sa facture tout en réussissant à attiser sa curiosité en abordant des sujets pour lesquels il éprouve une attirance naturelle. [SDM].
Lost and found
Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunning originality has created an electrifying space epic set in a universe at once strangely familiar and starkly terrifying. Familiar because the universe is ours; terrifying because the human condition might soon be. . . .Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that's all in the past, part of a life half forgotten--a reality that vanished when he was attacked while camping and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space.Desperately, Walker searches for explanations, only to realize he's trapped in a horrifying nightmare that is all too real. Instead of being a rich hotshot at the top of the food chain, Walker discovers he's just another amusing novelty, part of a cargo of "cute" aliens from primitive planets--destined to be sold as pets to highly advanced populations in "civilized" regions of the galaxy.Even if he weren't constantly watched by his captors, Walker has few options. After all, there is no escape from a speeding starship. Another man might resign himself to the inevitable and hope to be sold to a kindly owner, but not Walker. This former college football star has plenty of American ingenuity and no intention of admitting defeat, now or ever. In fact, he's only just begun to fight.The adventure will continue with two more novelsFrom the Hardcover edition.