If you're a fan of John Green, Michael Grant, Stephen King or Sally Green's Half Bad, get your pincers stuck into this.In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.Funny, intense, complex and brave, Grasshopper Jungle is a...
Brand new YA fiction from the extraordinary mind of New York Times bestselling author Andrew Smith …Cager has been transported to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship, to help him shake his Woz addiction. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. As the robots on board The Tennessee become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, Cager and his friends have to wonder if they’ll be stranded alone in space...
From the critically acclaimed author of cult teen novel Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith, comes a startlingly original tale of friendship and brotherhood, war and humanity, identity and existence.Ariel, the sole survivor of an attack on his village in the Middle East is ‘rescued’ from the horrific madness of war in his homeland by an American soldier and sent to live with a family in suburban Virginia. And yet, to Ariel, this new life with a genetic scientist father and resentful brother, Max,...
This book is a sort of “last will and testament” of a man who has spent his life trying to discern the fundamental questions of life. It is some speculation, some fact, and some biographical.
Romana has been recalled to Gallifrey by the Time Lords a summons that cannot be ignored, despite her extreme reluctance to give up the freedom and excitement life as the Doctor's companion has brought.The time traveller's course is set, the flight path is clear, estimated time of arrival on Gallifrey is in thirty-two minutes then the unexpected happens…The full significance of their temporary loss of control over the TARDIS is only gradually brought home to the Doctor. For it is not...
