Cass Green

When Bel moves to the seaside town of Slumpton with her mother she isn't happy. She didn't want to leave her friends behind but worse of all her father hasn't come with them. Bel doesn't like her new home, she finds the cold, grey and run down town depressing and she is incredibly lonely. That is until she meets Luka and follows him to the old fairground. But is Luka really all he seems and what caused the mysterious disappearance of his mother? As they begin to investigate they are drawn into a dark and dangerous world.

What happens when drugs stop working? How do bacteria mutate? Do antibiotics contribute to the rise in resistant bugs? Packed with pictures and first-hand accounts, this book explores the science of drug resistance and what it means in the world today.

Her dream home will become her worst nightmare… A strange encounter Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve’s hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. An unexpected gift Two weeks later, as Neve’s wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap – a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems. A twisted secret But when Neve arrives, alone in the dark woods late one night, she finds a sinister-looking bungalow with bars across its windows. And her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare – a house hiding a twisted secret that will change her life forever…

"Cal's world splinters apart when he finds out he's been in a deliberately induced coma state for most of his life, and what he thought was real was only an illusion. Escaping his captors, Cal goes on the run, determined to fight the forces behind the nightmare he finds waiting for him in the real world, and to discover this true identity"--Publisher's website.