Mostrando resultados por Editor "Quercus" en Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía

Winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award. Eves are designed, not made. The School trains them to be pretty. The School trains them to be good. The School trains them to Always be Willing. All their lives, the eves have been waiting. Now, they are ready for the outside world. Companion...concubine...or chastity. Only the best will be chosen. And only the Men decide.

To make some extra money for the Feral Zoo, Sammy, Red, and Donny decide to promote their cryptozoology business: investigating animals that don't exist. What could possibly go wrong? Everything! Hired to check out sightings of a ghost dog, the friends uncover the terrifying legend of the Hell Hound. Anyone who is seen by this terrible beast is struck with a death curse. So when Sammy's best friend, Mark, runs into the deadly dog, Sammy knows he doesn't have long to figure out how to save him!

Sammy couldn't be more excited when two pandas arrive at Feral Zoo all the way from China. But when he finds a mysterious golden egg hidden inside the panda crate, he knows things are about to get WEIRD - again. Soon the egg hatches, and Sammy comes face to face with a tiny golden dragon. And it seems to think he's its dad! Sammy needs answers, and he needs them fast - who sent the dragon, and why? It's not long before Sammy realizes he's in more danger than he could ever imagine.

When 10-year-old Liam's family moves to be near his grandmother, who is suffering from dementia, he's left to navigate his new neighborhood, school, and grandmother's illness all by himself. His mom regularly loses herself in a bottle of wine, and his sister sneaks out to who knows where shortly after "wine o'clock" - as they've come to call it - strikes. Life it isn't easy.

Within the boundaries of Oaktree Boarding School, Millie Hendrick is a privileged girl in a future world. A world where students can download their memories to tablets, and highly advanced robots are the servants of choice. With exams looming and the Look announcing daily-changing fashion trends, Millie has the same problems as every 13-year-old.... Well, there is one other thing troubling her. Millie's haunted by an accident she can't remember and a fear of the robots she can't explain.