Download or read book Legion of the Dead written by Paul Stewart and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messenger Barnaby Grimes is delivering packages when a local gang "encourages" him to attend a funeral where he begins to face his deadliest challenges.
Download or read book Legion of the Dead written by Paul Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2008.
Download or read book Barnaby Grimes written by Paul Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Grimes is pitted against an army of Victorian-era zombies. The funeral of a master criminal brings a dozen squabbling gangs together for a moment of peace, but when Barnaby shortcuts through the graveyard and sees the body rise from the earth, a terrifying mystery is born.
Download or read book Barnaby Grimes Legion of the Dead written by Paul Stewart and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The corpses swayed where they stood, their bony arms outstretched before them and tattered sleeves hanging limply in the foggy air. I smelled the sourness of the sewers about them; that, and the sweet whiff of death. Their sunken eyes bored into mine. I was surrounded. . . .” Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but when the graveyards begin to give up their dead, this tick-tock lad is faced with his deadliest challenge yet. . . . A blood-curdling tale of greed and betrayal. Will Barnaby be defeated by the Legion of the Dead? Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell’s incomparable Barnaby Grimes returns for another adventure in the third installment of the brilliantly exciting horrorthriller series set in Dickensian London.
Download or read book Curse of the Night Wolf written by Paul Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
Download or read book Barnaby Grimes written by Paul Stewart and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muddle Earth written by and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When magic strikes and Joe Jefferson is transformed from an ordinary schoolboy into a powerful warrior, his simple life is greatly altered as dangerous tasks to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and confront villains are bestowed upon him by the residents of Muddle Earth who are in desperate need of a hero such as he.
Download or read book Fergus Crane written by Paul Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklinstein Lives written by Matthew McElligott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Godwin, a serious-minded boy genius living in Philadelphia, discovers that Ben Franklin never died - he was put into suspended animation, and was hidden away for more than 200 years in Victor's basement! An accident re-awakens Ben centuries before he was supposed to be, and there's a problem - when Ben runs low on energy, he turns into a rampaging monster desperately hungry for electricity! All this while Victor is trying to take first place in the school science fair. But with one of history's preeminent scientists helping out, what could go wrong? "Victor is one of the funniest nerds in children's literature." - School Library Journal "A welcome diversion to pass the hours between scoring science-fair ribbons and exploding . . . home chemistry sets." - Booklist
Download or read book The Curse of the Gloamglozer written by Paul Stewart and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a sky pirate captain is plunged into a terrifying adventure when he accidentally invokes an ancient curse.
Download or read book Far Flung Adventures Corby Flood written by Paul Stewart and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles. Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is wrong, but Corby is highly observant and has a lot of time for note-taking and eavesdropping. Onboard, among the odd passengers and eccentric crew, there is a strange group of men in bowler-hats who call themselves The Brotherhood of Clowns. There's also a melancholy wailing sound coming from the hold. It's strictly out of bounds but Corby can't help investigating. What could be inside the crate she discovers down in the hold? As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help of some very well mustachioed locals to uncover the contents of the crate and the dark secrets of the menacing Clowns...
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Is Burning written by Kathleen V. Kudlinski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank thought that he'd found a new friend--but he never expected a war to come between them. It's 1941 , and Frank is miserable. If only his family had never moved to Hawaii. Everyone and everything on the island looks and sounds strange to him. Then Frank meets Kenji, a Japanese-American boy who just might become a friend. But the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is bombed , and by the Japanese! Can Frank and Kenji even be friends?
Download or read book Clash of the Sky Galleons written by Paul Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quint Is Travelling With His Father, Wind Jackal, On A Mission To Track Down And Bring To Justice Turbot Smeal, The Man Who Started The Fire That Killed Their Family. Having Left Behind His Studies At The Knights Academy, Quint Is Now Eager To Learn What It Really Means To Be A Sky Pirate And To Learn From His Father. But Wind Jackal Is Consumed By His Desire To Capture Smeal - And His Judgement Is Flawed. His Actions Endangers The Lives Of His Crew - And His Son. As They Travel From The Taverns And Backstreets Of Undertown And The Wonders Of The Shipbuilders' Yards, To The Dark Dangers Of The Deepwoods, Where Quint And Maris Become Separated From The Rest Of The Crew And Encounter Some Terrifying Creatures - And Finally To The Mysterious, Ghostly Sky-Wreck In Open Sky, Where They Discover The Truth About Smeal - And Face A New Terror. . .
Download or read book Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders written by Mike Townsend and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel "for fans of either comic books or Percy Jackson, or both.”—School Library Journal From Hercules' snake assassin slippers to Arachne's wicked weaver rap songs, these are the mythic monsters and Hellenic heroes that have captured Western culture for centuries--but a whole lot more fun. Each story showcases the wondrous and blunderful antics of gods and mortals in bright graphics that rival the super-heroic action of The Lightning Thief, burst with the knock-yoursocks- off humor of Jeff Kinney, and still remain unerringly faithful to the original myth. Kids won't be able to resist the bickering sheep, unruly rulers, and undercover details of Amazing Greek Myths--while teachers, librarians, and parents can relish this new way to share moral messages that remain as relevant today as they were a thousand years ago.
Download or read book Barnaby Grimes written by Paul Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby Grimes thinks he's earned a moment to sit on the rooftops and eat his favourite pasty. But soon he realises that all is not well at the school - but is the problem quite as he expects it?
Download or read book Lionboy written by Zizou Corder and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of LIONBOY: THE CHASE Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not where. All is not lost, however. Eventually the entire cast of the LIONBOY trilogy find themselves on a Caribbean island, the home of the sinister Corporacy. Can Charlie bring the story to a triumphant conclusion by vanquishing the Corporacy and ridding the world of its nefarious schemes?
Download or read book Edge Chronicles Clash of the Sky Galleons written by Paul Stewart and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE QUINT TRILOGY, Book III Quint is traveling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now eager to learn what it really means to be a sky pirate and to learn from his father. But Wind Jackal is consumed by his desire to capture Smeal, amd his judgment is flawed. His actions endanger the lives of his crew and his son. As they travel from the taverns and the backstreets of Undertown and the wonders of the shipbuilders' yards to the dark dangers of the Deepwoods, Quint and Maris become separated from the rest of the crew. Finally, at the mysterious, ghostly sky-wreck in Open Sky, they discover the truth about Smeal.
