Catherine MacPhail Libri

Il mondo di Lissa è stato sconvolto per due volte: la prima quando suo padre è stato arrestato, e la seconda quanto è tornato a casa dopo alcuni anni di prigione. Non solo si sente tradita, ma non riesce a perdonare né lui, né la madre, "colpevole" di averlo di nuovo accolto in famiglia. E quando Lissa sorprende una conversazione tra il padre e l'uomo che l'ha spinto a trasgredire la legge, le cose peggiorano. Il suo solo conforto, l'unica persona con cui riesce a confidarsi, è Diane Connell, la nuova compagna di scuola, che ha sempre l'idea giusta per risolvere qualsiasi problema. Lissa è disposta a seguire ciecamente i consigli dell'amica, e farebbe qualunque cosa per lei. Ma che Diane meriti davvero tanta lealtà e devozione, è tutto un altro discorso...

Ram has cheated death - four times. Who is so desperate to kill him? And why? On the run, Ram finds himself on desolate moorland. He knows he is being stalked, but this time by something less than human ...Ram is rescued by the seemingly generous and kind William and Mary. But his relief fades to suspicion and fear when, on learning he has no memory, they insist on calling him Noel. Ram is full of doubt. He has no memory of who he is, but he knows he is not Noel - doesn't he? And odd memories start to surface. Memories of guns, rifles, explosions. Strange phrases seem to ring bells. Why does Ram feel in his gut that his secret past is not just vitally important to him, but could have even global significance? Macphail brilliantly sets the clues and racks up the tension in the second of this four-part instalment about Ram and his deadly opponent, the Dark Man. As the series evolves it will be revealed that there is a global terrorist coup being plotted and Ram - unknowingly - holds the secret and the ability to prevent it. Will he realise in time - or will the Dark Man get to him first?

It is a dark and stormy night......Nanny Sue is trying to get rid of Stephanie, Ewen and Baby Thomas so she can settle down to watch Star-Maker, her favourite TV programme. Nanny Sue's got ambitions to be a pop star, more fool her.Then comes a banging on the door. It's loud enough to wake the dead. "It's the Bogeyman, come to get you!" shrieks Nanny Sue. (She's good with kids.)But it is far worse than that. It is Granny Nothing, looking like a rhinoceros in a frock, dripping wet and complaining about her feet. And from this point on, things in the McAllister household will never be the same again...Anyone for a worm sandwich?

Ram has no memory of who he is, his background or where he has come from. He awakes in a darkened corridor of a block of flats with no idea of how he has got there. And then the lift doors nearby open and inside is a dying man...Ram is now the murder suspect and on the run. But there is something that draws him back - the dying man's last words. And as he discovers more about the murdered man, Ram becomes aware that somebody is following him, somebody with sinister intent ...Could it be something to do with his past? A tense thriller that is part of a 4-part series that will have Ram discovering more and more about his background and identity with each book.

An intensely thought-provoking and issue-raising novel about the terrible trade in baby organs, yet still retaining the trademark pace and compelling readability of Catherine MacPhail.

When Nick steals a special fossil, both the bad and good things he wishes for happen... with hilarious results. Can he repair all the damage he does?

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A school trip goes disastrously wrong when a visit to local caves turns into something far more sinister. Five teenagers find themselves trapped beneath the ground. Their best chance of escape is to stay together. Then a member of the group disappears, and their hopes of getting out alive start to fade. Does one of the remaining four know more than they are letting on, or perhaps there is something evil lurking in the caves?

Winner of a Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award.