Audience: Youth

Despite his immense powers, the Ropemaker alone could not control the chaos raging through the empire, so he chose 24 magicians to aid him in his task - the watchers. They pledged to use their magic only to protect the people, but the promise that bound them has now corrupted them. Only the Ropem...

Part of a fiction series for struggling teenage readers.

Much to the disapproval of his parents, Baljit is mad on football and dreams of playing for Liverpool. So when he is invited to trials at Leicester City, he has to lie about his whereabouts.

When Sally and Keith meet at a rock festival, there is a strong mutual attraction - but what will happen when Keith finds out that Sally isn't a famous stylist and Sally finds out that Keith isn't the lead singer of one of the bands playing at the festival?

When a band of gypsies comes to his village, Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by Sofia - a beautiful gypsy princess - and he finds himself drawn into her vampire-slaying world.

14-year-old twins Jamie and Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation, Nightrise, kidnaps Scott, Jamie is left alone - and wanted for murder.

Known as 'Stuff' - because he knows a lot of stuff - Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he wants also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine - without being beaten up by her psycho brother. How is a tee...

Tolkien's invention of strange people, curious incidents and miraculous doings, is poured out into this second volume of his trilogy. As the story goes on the world of the Rings grows more vast and mysterious and crowded with curious figures.