![]() Everyone in the Underland has been taking great pains to keep The Prophecy of Time from Gregor. The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series. Though Gregor's family receives frequent updates on her condition, they all know Gregor must return to fulfill his role as the warrior who is key to the Underlanders' survival. It's only a few months since Gregor and Boots returned from the Underland, leaving their mother behind to heal from the plague. Gregor must summon all his power to end the biological wrfare that threatens the fate of every warmblooded creature. It is spreading fast, and when it claims one of Gregor's family, he begins to truly understand his role in the Prophecy of Blood. Gregor and Boots must return to the Underland to help ward off a plague. ![]() Recognizable by its tremendous size and snow-white coat, the Rat King is destined to bring a World War to the Underland. ![]() ![]() Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King in the Underland, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. When eleven-year-old Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats and giant cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. ![]()
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![]() "He did not rise above the rank of assistant professor, and few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses." Why do you think the author begins the novel by summarising Stoner’s life and telling us how little he is remembered after his death? Having already had a summary of Stoner’s life, what did you think the book would be about and did you find it irritating to know, upfront, that nothing sensational would happen?ģ. "Stoner’s colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers." Having read the whole book, do you think the summary of Stoner’s life, as described on the first page of the novel, is a fair assessment?Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. Her other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award. Her books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University, freelance editor and screenwriter. Lauren James is the thrice Carnegie-nominated British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. ![]() ![]() **I don't respond to messages on here - email me at laurenjamesauthorgmailcom or send an ask on Tumblr instead*** ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See the complete Embassy Row series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down. The Embassy Row book series by Ally Carter includes books All Fall Down, See How They Run, and Take the Key and Lock Her Up. and if she doesn't stop it, Grace isn't the only one who will get hurt. But they can't control Grace - no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door, who is keeping his eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands.Everybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her - so there's no one she can completely trust. Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:1. A new series of global proportions - from master of intrigue, New York Times. ![]() She grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and has never caused an international incident (to her knowledge). Her books have been published all over the world, in over 20 languages. A new series of global proportions - from master of intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter. Buy All Fall Down (Embassy Row, Book 1) by Ally Carter at Mighty Ape NZ. Ally Carter is the New York Times bestselling author of the Gallagher Girls, Heist Society, and Embassy Row series.Not If I Save You First is her first stand-alone novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Browne sets up the tension by starting off with Charles's stylishly dressed mother, who lets her "pedigree Labrador," Victoria, off the leash and then scoffs at "some scruffy mongrel"(Smudge's dog). Yet Browne reinvents and overlays the scene as each parent and child in turn describes their version of the events, altering light, colors and words. What transpires factually is simple: the two children play together, their dogs do the same, the adults keep to themselves. ![]() ![]() The author of King Kong and the Willy stories again features anthropomorphic chimps, who provide four unique perspectives: an uppity, overbearing mother and her glum son, Charles and an unemployed fellow and his cheerful daughter, Smudge. Browne again proves himself an artist of inventive voice and vision as he creates perhaps his most psychologically complex work to date via a commonplace experienceAa brief sojourn to a city park. ![]() |