Bøger af Catherine Jinks

Written by award-winning author Catherine Jinks and illustrated by Jennifer Goldsmith, Freckles is a gorgeous story about loving who you are âEUR" all the way down to the last freckle!My fabulous freckles are wonderful fun. A hundred and twenty! IâEUR(TM)ve counted each one. Celebrating body positivity and mother and daughter relationships; the rhyming text makes Freckles simple and accessible. For ages 3 and up

?This is top-notch storytelling, full of wit, a colorful cast of rogues, and delectable slang.? ?Publishers Weekly, starred review of How to Catch a BogleJem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles?until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London, needs a new apprentice. As more and more orphans disappear under mysterious circumstances, Alfred, Jem, and Birdie find themselves waging an underground war in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force. As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship that's nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he's fourteen and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart he's a lonely kid. When he falls for the mysterious and brilliant Kay-Lee, he begins to question the moral implications of his studies. But is it too late to stop Dr. Darkkon from carrying out his evil plot? An engrossing thriller with darkness and humor, freaks and geeks, Evil Genius explores the fine line between good and evil in a strange world of manipulations and subterfuge where nothing is as it seems.

When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the nightbefore, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At FeatherdaleWildlife Park. In a dingo pen.He assumes that his two best friends are somehow responsible, until the mysteriousReuben turns up, claiming that Toby has a rare and dangerous ?condition.? Next thinghe knows, Toby finds himself involved with a strange bunch of sickly insomniacs whoseem convinced that he needs their help. It's not until he's kidnapped and imprisonedthat he starts to believe them?and to understand what being a paranormal monsterreally means.

Meg lives alone: a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That''s one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who''s escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it''s like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know where they''ve come from, and she''s not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows it''s unnecessary. They''re safe now. Then she starts to wonder about some little things. A disturbed flyscreen. A tune playing on her windchimes. Has Nerine''s ex tracked them down? Has Meg''s husband turned up to torment her some more? By the time she finds out, it''ll be too late to do anything but run for her life.