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When Jacqueline Hyde finds the little glass bottle in Grandma's attic her life suddenly changes. Goodbye clean, good Jacqueline. Hello cheeky, loud Jacqueline Bad. It's fun at first. Exciting. But then Jacqueline Bad gets into serious trouble. And although she keeps trying to be her old self, the bad side just won't let go... A darkly addictive fable, truly absorbing.

Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever. Isn't it? Not anymore, as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the present. It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine has a horrifying potential.

Kirsty has suffered from a terrifying nightmare since childhood and she comes to realise that her grandmother did not just fall downstairs, she was pushed. Kirsty's suspicions focus on her unfriendly aunt and she starts a campaign to find out the truth.

In this science-fiction thriller, from the award-winning author of Room 13 and Stone Cold, a mysterious planet appears in the sky. The world's scientists are baffled, but 11-year-old Orville has a nasty suspicion that he knows its secret.

A 12-year-old boy and his friends make a grisly discovery while rooting about in a disused railway tunnel. They are plunged into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel unfolds its sinister secret.

The Outfit have a new project - raising money for a sick girl. A sponsored walk across the Yorkshire moors seems like the ideal solution. Then The Outfit get separated from the main party and find themselves on the moors, in the mist...alone. Could this be a danger even The Outfit can't beat? Another fantastic story starring The Outfit, from best-selling author Robert Swindells.

Something moved at an upstairs window.... Nothing ever happens in the tiny village of Coney Cley. At least, that's what eleven-year-old Josh and his sister, Jinty, think. Until their trip down Shadows Lane. For there, within the walls of an isolated, crumbling cottage, something - someone - is hiding. Josh and Jinty are about to discover a shocking secret, which they must keep hidden at all costs.... A tense, fantastically gripping tale from Carnegie Award-winning author Robert Swindells.

Market Fulford er en søvnig engelsk landsby som hundredvis andre. Børnene Tan, Simon og Diane lever ganske almindelige liv, indtil byen en dag bliver angrebet af rumvæsner, der ligner små hvide mus. De voksne lader ikke til at vide, hvordan byen skal forsvares, så sammen tager de tre børn kampen op mod det ukendte. Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom.

"Flyderen bevægede sig ud i laden. Øjeløs følte den stjerneskærets svage tiltrækning og fulgte den, gled ud gennem den store åbne dør og bort i mørket..." Der sker noget meget mærkeligt på Cansfield gård. Mystiske korncirkler dukker hele tiden op på markerne - og den hidsige gårdejer nægter alle adgang til sin jord. Hvordan kommer cirklerne? Hvem laver dem? Hvorfor virker Barry Cansfield så bange? Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter.