Books for 10-14 Year olds


1911. East Africa. The great golden age of hunting, when men came from all around the world to Africa for the opportunity to shoot animals in the wild. Charles Waverly-Alcott, however, hates hunting. But when one of their hunting party kills a hyena-witch, the consequences are devastating. Witches always have sisters, and this sister curses the hunters, including Sir Edmund. With his father’s life in the balance, Charles must traverse the African wilderness by himself in order to find the wise man who knows the cure. Charles fears he will fail. But with the magic of some friends, he just might make it. If the lions don’t get him first.
After a car accident twelve year old Lee wakes up in hospital in fifteen year old Gary's body. Gary is now in Lee's body and is critically ill. Lee is at once thrust into Gary's world of gangs and drugs. He has a new family and a well fit girlfriend called Rosie. Can Lee convince them who he really is? And can he get his body back before Gary dies? This is a gripping tale of love, hatred, revenge and disloyalty. A fantasy paranormal adventure for teens and adults.
Doodling is an engaging comic fantasy which relates the events that befall Neville after he finds himself abandoned by the world and adrift in the middle of an asteroid field. Douglas Adams meets Lewis Carroll (with just a touch of Gulliver's Travels) as Neville wanders through his new home, meeting a variety of eccentric characters and experiencing some most unexpected adventures.
As Kriffle the Flidderbug investigates why his fellow 'bugs find it impossible to agree on the pressing issue of how many points there are on the leaves of the tree on which they live, he finds that the truth is more complicated, and ultimately more terrifying, than he ever could have imagined. Flidderbugs is a political satire, a modern fable, or maybe just a funny little story about a bunch of insects with some very peculiar obsessions.