Vashti Hardy

Critically acclaimed in the UK, Brightstorm is a fast-paced fantasy adventure novel that will set imaginations soaring.

Brightstorm

A mind-bending adventure from the author of Brightstorm! A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood'sfamily is still shattered by grief. But everything changes when a stranger arrives at the farm. A new, incredible technology has been discovered in the city of Medlock, where a secretive guild of inventorshave developed a way to capture spirits of the dead in animal-like machines, bringing them back to life. Prue knows that the "Ghost Guild" might hold the key to bringing her brother back, so she seizes the stranger's offer to join as an apprentice. But to find her brother, she needs to find a wayto get the ghost machines to rememberthe people they used to be. Yet if Prue succeeds, all of society could come apart...

Wildspark: A Ghost Machine Adventure

The Griffin Gate

The thrilling sequel to the acclaimed BRIGHTSTORM: A SKY SHIP ADVENTURE. The Brightstorm twins are back for another adventure! Eudora Vane has organized an explorer fleet to search the last known destination of missing adventurer Ermitage Wrigglesworth. Harriet Culpepper and the crew of the Aurora join the mission, but they don't believe that Eudora has good intentions. What is she really looking for? Arthur is determined to find out, and when disaster strikes and the Brightstorm twins are separated, will he and Maudie be able to find their way back to each other?

A Brightstorm Adventure

Darkwhispers

More high adventure and invention with an ecological twist from the Blue Peter Award winning author of Wildsparkand Brightstorm. Cast out from the clockwork island of Ironhold, where mechanical technology controls everything, Orin Crowfall wakes on a small boat in the middle of the ocean, with no idea of how he came to be there. Plagued by perilous seas and with a terrifying sea monster on his tail, Orin eventually washes up on island of Thray, which he is amazed to discover is a living, breathing organism that can communicate with its people. Orin is entranced by the island. But as he explores with his new friend Ferelith, he begins to realise that things on Thray aren't as perfect as they first seem, and he's also starting to remember the sinister revelation he made before he left Ironhold...

Crowfall

Firesong - a Brightstorm Adventure

Aufbruch nach Südpolaris

Das Wolkenschiff

Dans un monde imaginaire, Arthur et Maudie découvrent que leur père a disparu lors d'une expédition au pôle Sud. Les jumeaux embarquent alors dans un dirigeable piloté par la capitaine Harriet Coriander pour faire la lumière sur cette affaire. Leur périple les amène à rencontrer des animaux doués de parole, à vivre des événements fantastiques et à découvrir leurs origines.

L'expédition fantastique

Aurora

Join Harley, her robot dog Sprocket and best friend Cosmo for problem-solving adventures and mysteries in Inventia, a world where science rules and technology grows in the forest; and where exploding science projects, giant slugs and runaway robots are all part of a normal school day.

Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest

The Aurora crew are going on a mission to the volcanic north, where years before the Brightstorm twins' parents discovered the moth that is their family symbol. But scheming, ambitious Eudora Vane is still dedicated to destroying the Brightstorm family name, and the further the Aurora travels, the more long-buried secrets are revealed.

Firesong

The Raven Riddle

In this spirited third Brightstorm adventure, the twins journey north to protect the legendary earth-bear and to discover their family’s hidden history. Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are back home in Lontown and finally settling in after their exhilarating—and secret—adventures in Erythea. Maudie’s sky-ak invention is a hit, and Harriet has just announced that she will share her sky-ship’s hydroelectric technology. But tensions are brewing. Pitch is becoming more and more difficult to mine, and the existence of super-sapient creatures on other continents threatens how the Explorers see themselves in the natural order of the world. When Arthur and Maudie begin hearing a strange song summoning them north—a song only they can hear—they know there’s an adventure waiting for them that may change the lives of everyone in the Wide. As the crew of the Aurora prepares for their trip, they’re joined by new members and old friends. But they’re not the only sky-ship journeying northward to uncover the region’s secrets. . . . Return to Vashti Hardy’s “marvelously imagined” world (Publisher's Weekly) in this sweeping and propulsive new addition to the Brightstorm series.

Firesong: A Brightstorm Adventure (Brightstorm)

The Puffin Portal

Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest EBOOK

Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word that their father died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris. But a mysterious clue leads the twins to question the story they've been told, and they join the crew of a new exploration attempt in the hope of learning the truth. Will Arthur and Maudie find the answers they seek?

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