Philip Reeve
Author
Series
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 2
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Hunstmen of Arkangel find them.
Author
Series
Larklight volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Young Arthur Mumby, his sister Myrtle, and their mother accept an invitation to take a holiday at an up-and-coming resort in the asteroid belt, where they become involved in a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing.
3) Goblins
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Young Skarper has always been a different sort of goblin, more interested in knowledge and information than eating and throwing rocks, and it gets him into trouble--but it may also be the key to saving Clovenstone from a dark sorcerer.
Author
Series
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
Author
Series
Larklight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Author
Series
Language
English
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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Author
Series
Not-so-impossible tales volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race--in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs--in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish.
Author
Series
Not-so-impossible tales volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Funfair Moon, the outer space amusement park where Emily lives, has the highest roller coasters, the most dizzying Tilt-A-Whirls, and the scariest ghost train in the galaxy. Normally, Emily's heroes Jinks and O'Hare keep it in tip-top shape. But the day the funfair inspector comes, everything goes wrong. Peeploid's Merry-Go-Round and Fudge Shoppe is spinning out of control, gravity has reversed on the biggest slide, and there are strange little spiny...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to probability they don't teach at school. Readers will learn why coins have no memory, and whether Urgum the Axeman is likely to lose his head and join Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler in a mathematical tangle with swamp snake.
11) The Phantom X
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Using a host of characters, this title presents the tricks, tips and shortcuts to algebra.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Suitable for readers floundering with their formulas, this title reveals how to make the perfect fried egg, get your fair share of the gangster's leftover pizza and what makes money really interesting. Using a host of characters, it presents various tricks, tips and shortcuts to maths.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? Easy Questions, Evil Answers provides the answers to these questions and more. It's the perfect read for anyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths save your life? Can you make a piece of one-sided paper? How can you be famous for ever? Find out in "More Murderous Maths"--All the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.