L.D. Lapinski

'Assured, witty and inventive. This debut has "future classic" written all over it.' - The Guardian Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure! Perfect for fans of The Train to Impossible Places and Pages & Co. At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside . . . When 12-year-old Flick Hudson accidentally ends up in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, she uncovers a fantastic secret: there are hundreds of other worlds just steps away from ours. All you have to do to visit them is jump into the right suitcase. Then Flick gets the invitation of a lifetime: join Strangeworlds' magical travel society and explore other worlds. But, unknown to Flick, the world at the very centre of it all, a city called Five Lights, is in danger. Buildings and even streets are mysteriously disappearing. Once Flick realizes what's happening she must race against time, travelling through unchartered worlds, seeking a way to fix Five Lights before it collapses into nothingness - and takes our world with it. A magical adventure for 9+ readers that will take you to whole new worlds.

Book 1

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

The Edge of the Ocean

'FABULOUS, HOPEFUL, IMPORTANT' - Emma Carroll A beautiful and uplifting story from L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, about how to make your own place when the world doesn't think you fit anywhere. For fans of Me, My Dad and The End of The Rainbow. Jamie Rambeau is a happy 11-year-old non-binary kid who likes nothing better than hanging out with their two best friends Daisy and Ash. But when the trio find out that in Year Seven they will be separated into one school for boys and another for girls, their friendship suddenly seems at risk. And when Jamie realises no one has thought about where they are going to go, they decide to take matters into their own hands, and sort it all out once and for all. As the friends' efforts to raise awareness eventually become a rooftop protest against the binary rules for the local schools, Jamie realises that if they don't figure out a way forwards, they might be at risk of losing both their friends forever...

Jamie

Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure! At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside... Flick is now a badge-wearing member of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency so when an urgent summons arrives at Strangeworlds from Pirate Queen Nyfe, she and Strangeworlds Society guardian Jonathan immediately pack their bags for an adventure to Queen Nyfe's world: The Break, a place of magic and piracy. Nyfe's world is falling apart. The Break is used to having ships vanish without a trace, but there has been a sudden increase that can't be explained by giant squid or mer-people. The edge of their flat world is coming ever closer to them and they need to escape before it collapses entirely. But how do you sail a ship through a suitcase? How do you fit a mer-queen the size of a whale into something small enough to carry in your hand? Will Flick and Jonathan be able to find a way to transport the inhabitants of the Break to another world before theirs disappears forever? A magical adventure for 9+ readers that will take you to whole new worlds, perfect for fans of The Train to Impossible Places and The Polar Bear Explorers' Club.

Book 2

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency: The Edge of the Ocean

Pack your suitcase for a magical CHRISTMAS adventure! Twelve-year-old Flick is a proud member of the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, where every suitcase leads to a new world. Travelling to different worlds through schisms trapped in suitcases is already a pretty miraculous thing but this year, Flick is about to learn that something extra magical happens in Strangeworlds on Christmas Eve... A magical and joy-filled Christmas novella set in the Strangeworlds multi-verse, for 9+ readers.

A Strangeworlds Novella

A Very Strangeworlds Christmas

Pack your suitcase for the final magical adventure at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency! Flick and Jonathan have faced countless dangers in their roles as part of the Strangeworlds Society and come out alive on the other side. But what do they really know about the Society they are risking their lives for? Why does it exist? Who is Strangeworlds there to protect? And what in the worlds is happening to the multiverse now? With worlds everywhere under threat of collapse and mysteries abounding, it's up to Flick and Jonathan to discover the answers to these questions. And only if they can uncover the secrets of Strangeworlds and the secrets of a new mysterious world called 'The Stormforest', will they have any hope of defending their world - and others - from the threat that is facing them all. A magical adventure for 9+ readers that will take you to whole new worlds, perfect for fans of The Train to Impossible Places and Pages & Co. 'A fabulous fantastical adventure' The Sunday Express

Book 3

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency: The Secrets of the Stormforest

Reisbureau Wereldvreemd is een raadselachtig reisbureau. Alleen Flick ziet de magie kan met Jonathan in het multiversum reizen. Maar, er lekt magie weg. Dat bedreigt heel veel werelden. Reisbureau Wereldvreemd is deel 1 in de magisch-realistische serie Wereldvreemd van L.D. Lapinski. Voor onbevreesde en reislustige lezers vanaf 10 jaar. Wanneer de twaalfjarige Flick reisbureau Wereldvreemd ontdekt, krijgt ze de kans van haar leven. Ze treedt toe tot het Wereldvreemdgenootschap en daarmee liggen er honderden magische werelden aan haar voeten! Het enige wat ze hoeft te doen is in de juiste koffer springen. Maar wat Flick niet weet is dat het middel punt van alle werelden, Vijflichtenstad, op het punt staat te verdwijnen. Het wordt een race tegen de klok, dwars door het multiversum, op zoek naar een manier om Vijflichten te repareren voor het wordt opgeslokt... en het onze wereld met zich meeneemt.

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