Showing results by author "Gill Lewis"

Pip is friendly, patient and loyal - that’s why he’s training to be a service dog! The only thing standing in his way is his one weakness: if a ball is thrown, he has to chase it. So when Pip the Labrador puppy gets assigned to a young girl in a wheelchair, will he prove himself a worthy assistance pup? Puppies to the rescue! Murphy the leonberger puppy faces his biggest challenge when he is sent to the beach to try for his Surf Rescue Badge. Can he be brave when it matters most? 

When Callum and his friends find Lona on Callum's farm then try to chase her back into the village. But Lona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain gullies. Worried for Lona's safety, Callum follows to find her shivering with cold but refusing to leave. She is guarding a secret hidden in the forest above the dark waters of the loch.

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather - and Joe is stuck right in the middle, with a choice to make and a huge secret to keep. He can’t do what’s right for everyone. But can he find the strength to fight for what he really believes in? 

Puppies to the rescue! Scout is excited about the day ahead at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy because today she's taking an important test on her way to becoming a police dog, and there's a mysterious sausage thief at large in Little Barking. If only Scout could find a way of catching him.... Star wants to be a sheepdog like her mum. But everyone says she's much too fast and eager. One stormy night a lamb goes missing on the mountain. Star races off into the blizzard to find it.

The thrilling and inspirational new story from award-winning storyteller Gill Lewis. Deep in the heart of the African jungle, a baby gorilla is captured by a group of rebel soldiers. Imara and Bobo are two children also imprisoned in the rebels' camp. When they learn that the gorilla is destined to be sold into captivity, they swear to return it to the wild before it's too late. But the consequences of getting caught are too terrible to think about.

Scarlet’s used to looking after her brother, Red. He’s special - different. Every night she tells him his favourite story about the day they’ll fly far away to the Caroni Swamp in Trinidad, where thousands of birds fill the sky. But when Scarlet and Red are split up and sent to live with different foster families, Scarlet knows she’s got to do whatever it takes to get her brother back....

When 12-year-old Tam is sent to work at a bear farm he hates seeing the cruel way the bears are treated, but speaking up will mean losing his job. And if he can’t send money home, how will his family survive? When a sick cub arrives at the farm, Tam nurses it back to health and they develop an unbreakable bond. Tam swears to return his beloved cub to the wild, but how will they find a way to be free?

Bullied at school for her dyslexia and troubled by her mother’s unexplained disappearance, Kara seeks sanctuary sailing the ocean’s waves in her father’s boat. Meanwhile, Felix resents his well-meaning parents for dragging him to live by the coast and misses his old friends back in London. On their first encounter, Kara and Felix take an immediate dislike to each other. But then they discover a dolphin calf stranded on the beach.