Chloe Daykin

Maya has to escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? A book about light, about magic and belief, and about unlocking your own potential, from the critically acclaimed author of Fish Boy.

Fire Girl, Forest Boy

Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness, his dad has been forced to work extra hours to make ends meet, so Billy locks himself away with David Attenborough films, and ponders the magic of nature. Meanwhile at school, bullies mercilessly seize on Billy's 'otherness' and make his life as miserable as possible - but then new boy Patrick Green, with "fingers like steel, strength of a bear", joins Billy's class. And when a mackerel swims up to Billy's face, blows bubbles into his Vista Clear Mask goggles and says: Fish Boy - Billy's whole world changes.

Fish Boy

'It's time,' I say. 'For ... It. Me. You. Us. The bench. The zoo. The question. Why?' The only thing that Elvis Crampton Lucas knows about where he's from is that he was found on the bench at a zoo. And that his now father took him home in a Stetson hat, and named him after the first three vinyl he picked off his shelf. But now, on his twelfth "discovery day", it's time for Elvis to find out who left him at the zoo, and why? On an epic adventure that takes Elvis to an island off the coast of Norway, he will finally discover the truth about his past...

The Boy Who Hit Play

Billy Shiel è un dodicenne sveglio e spiritoso, ma molto, molto introverso. L’unico amico che ha è il suo mentore invisibile, il naturalista Sir David Attenborough, di cui conosce a memoria tutti i documentari. Fortuna che ci sono il nuoto e il mare, il solo posto al mondo dove si sente al sicuro e può lasciare andare alla deriva i problemi. Ma quando, alle difficoltà ad ambientarsi a scuola e ai bulli che gli danno il tormento, si aggiungono la misteriosa malattia della madre e un padre che ha sempre meno tempo per lui, tutto per Billy sembra trasformarsi in un gorgo marino pronto a inghiottirlo. Finché non arriva Patrick, il nuovo compagno di scuola. E finché, durante un’immersione, un piccolo pesce non va a sbattergli sugli occhialini e inizia a parlargli...

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