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Ali Sparkes meant to be a superstar singer and actress by now, but that never quite happened, and, since THE SHAPESHIFTER: FINDING THE FOX came out in 2006, she’s found her groove as a children’s author instead. Her first stand alone novel, FROZEN IN TIME, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in 2010 and her subsequent children’s adventure, WISHFUL THINKING, was longlisted for the Carnegie Prize as well as shortlisted for the Portsmouth Children’s Book Award and several others. UNLEASHED: A LIFE & DEATH JOB was shortlisted for the Northern Ireland Children’s Book Award and the West Virginia Children’s Book Award. She won the East Lothian Author Award in 2012. Hampshire-born and bred, Ali has one husband, two teenage sons and an imaginary dog – Pilot – who goes out running with her. She also visits schools and festivals all over the UK, Ireland and France.
Dangerous Metal
Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 15 fluency levels aimed at children in Years 2-4. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading.
Fluency 13 books have a word count of 6720 words with an expected reading rate of 140 words per minute.
In the midst of the Second World War, there is a call for all boys to help collect scrap metal for the war effort. Peggy decides it shouldn’t just be boys, so she and her friend Jed head off as well. However, when they discover some hidden treasure that’s well-protected, things take an unexpected turn.
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Night after night Elena, Matt, and Tima wake at exactly the same time, with no idea why. It’s messing them up and fracturing their lives . . . until they venture out into the dark and find each other. And then the sleepless trio realize their astounding power – they can speak any language; they can even communicate with animals.
But something is happening over on the industrial estate-something which is emitting sounds that only they can hear, and killing any winged thing that crosses its path.
There’s nobody to fight it but themselves, for only they can possibly understand it and what it means to do . . .
A new edge-of-your-seat series from award-winning author, Ali Sparkes, with huge appeal for both boys and girls. Fast-paced action adventure about contemporary children with mysterious powers, told with Ali’s classic humour and lightness of touch.
Adventure, conspiracy and shapeshifting – X-Men meets Alex Rider.
Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy . . . until something extraordinary happens. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox! He is offered a place at a secret government school where he can develop, and learn to control, his powers. But if Dax accepts, on no account can he tell anybody.
Dax jumps at the chance of getting away from his unhappy home. But before long he begins to wonder who exactly is behind the school, and what they want from the pupils there. Suddenly Dax’s fox senses are on high alert . . .
1956
Freddy and Polly are used to helping their father with his experiments. So they don’t mind being put into cryonic suspension – having their hearts frozen until their father wakes them up again. They know it will only be for an hour or two, so there’s nothing to worry about . . .
Present Day
Ben and Rachel have resigned themselves to a long, boring summer. Then they find a hidden underground vault in the garden containing two frozen figures, a boy and a girl. And when Rachel accidentally presses a button, something unbelievable happens . . .
Can Polly and Freddy adapt to the twenty-first century? Will their bodies survive having been in suspension for so long? And most important of all, what happened to their father – and why did he leave them frozen in time?
