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The Reformed Vampire Support Group

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Reformed Vampire Support Group

By: Catherine Jinks

Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves. Nina Harrison, fanged at fifteen and still living with her mother, hates the Reformed Vampire Support Group meetings every Tuesday night. Even if she does appreciate Dave, who was in a punk band when he was alive, nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until one of group members is mysteriously destroyed by a silver bullet. With Nina (determined to prove that vamps aren't useless or weak) and Dave (secretly in love with Nina) at the helm, the misfit vampires soon band together to track down the hunter, save a werewolf, and keep the world safe from the likes of themselves. The perfect anecdote to slick vampire novels, this murder-mystery comedy of errors will thrill fans of Evil Genius.

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HarperCollins

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0547394241

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9780547394244

Evil Genius

By: Catherine Jinks

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Evil Genius

By: Catherine Jinks

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he’s fourteen and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart he’s a lonely kid. When he falls for the mysterious and brilliant Kay-Lee, he begins to question the moral implications of his studies. But is it too late to stop Dr. Darkkon from carrying out his evil plot? This ebook includes a sample chapter of GENIUS SQUAD.

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HarperCollins

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054741613X

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9780547416137

Living Hell

By: Catherine Jinks

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Living Hell

By: Catherine Jinks

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force. As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship that’s nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.

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HarperCollins

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0547487878

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9780547487878

Genius Squad

By: Catherine Jinks

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Genius Squad

By: Catherine Jinks

Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon, has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel in the first place) is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round-the-clock surveillance so he'll be safe until he testifies against Prosper English. But nobody seems to want Cadel. Not Fiona, his social worker; not Saul Greeniaus, the detective assigned to protect him. When he is approached by the head of Genius Squad--a group formed to investigate GenoME, one of Darkkon's pet projects--Cadel is dubious Genius Squad can offer him a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But why can't he bring himself to tell Saul what the group is really up to? And how can Genius Squad protect Cadel once Prosper English breaks out of jail? This ebook includes a sample chapter of GENIUS WARS.

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HarperCollins

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0547416040

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9780547416045

The Attack

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Attack

By: Catherine Jinks

A boot camp for troubled young men, a hidden identity and murderous pursuit on a remote island: beloved author Catherine Jinks is back with another heart-pounding Australian thriller.

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1922459445

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9781922459442

Shepherd

By: Catherine Jinks

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Shepherd

By: Catherine Jinks

Compulsive and terrifying adult fiction from renowned Australian author Catherine Jinks

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1925774597

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9781925774597

To Die for

By: Catherine Jinks

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To Die for

By: Catherine Jinks

Twelves year old, Mercy adores 60's hearttthrob Hector McKerrow, thanks to re-runs of his zany TV series. Desperate to find out more about him, she creates an Internet message board asking for information. But what begins as an innocent search quickly escalates into a fierce competition.

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Macmillan Children's Books

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0330399187

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9780330399180

A Very Singular Guild

By: Catherine Jinks

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A Very Singular Guild

By: Catherine Jinks

Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler. Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. And this means spending a lot of time in the city's murky underground waterways - especially when Alfred is hired by the London Sewers Office to stamp out a deadly infestation. But times are changing. As magic and folklore give way to the machine age, Alfred begins to face an uncertain future - while Ned and his friends find themselves threatened by an enemy from their past who's even more dangerous than the bogles. Catherine Jinks captures the end of an era and the start of a technological revolution in her brilliant final instalment of the City of Orphans trilogy.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743431376

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9781743431375

A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans

By: Catherine Jinks

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A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans

By: Catherine Jinks

A clever adventure with feisty characters, set in a time where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in chimneys. Birdie, the singing bogler's apprentice, will win your heart in this fantastic beginning to an action-packed series. Ages 10+.

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1743313063

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9781743313060

Pagan's Crusade

By: Catherine Jinks

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Pagan's Crusade

By: Catherine Jinks

In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.

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Candlewick Press

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076362019X

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9780763620196

Saving Thanehaven

By: Catherine Jinks

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Saving Thanehaven

By: Catherine Jinks

Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way through a vicious, unfriendly landscape, sure (or at least, he thinks he's sure) that one day he'll defeat the bad guys (whoever they are) and win the heart (at least he guesses that's the idea) of a beautiful princess. Then one day Rufus comes along and turns his world upside down. Rufus has his own ideas about how to get ahead: don't fight, negotiate! Don't play by the rules! Suddenly, life is more interesting--and less painful--than ever before. But the new rules are harder to live by than the old ones, and suddenly, it appears possible that Rufus might have an ulterior motive--at the very least! With a slippery, ever twisting plot that is set inside a very confused computer, Catherine Jinks's latest novel will pull in fans of adventure, computer games, and just plain fun. Releases simultaneously in electronic book format (ISBN 978-1-60684-284-3)

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Egmont USA

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1606842846

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9781606842843

The Gentleman's Garden

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Gentleman's Garden

By: Catherine Jinks

In 1814, Dorothea Brande leaves the quiet harmony of her Devonshire home and accompanies her officer husband, Charles, to the colony of New South Wales. Here she endeavours to escape the harshness of the landscape - and the appalling brutality of common existence - by cultivating an English garden with the help of her convict manservant, Daniel. Together, in the creation of this garden, two bereft and disoriented people find a new strength and a special kind of refuge. But while Dorothea begins to adapt to the unforgiving environment, her husband is increasingly destroyed by it - until at last they stand on opposite sides of an unbridgeable gulf.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741141435

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A Very Peculiar Plague

By: Catherine Jinks

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A Very Peculiar Plague

By: Catherine Jinks

Bogles ain't like pigeons. They don't travel in flocks. So why is this corner o' London crawling with 'em?' Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler Alfred Bunce, who kills the child-eating monsters that lurk in the city's cellars and sewers. But Alfred is keen to give up bogling, since he almost lost his last apprentice, Birdie. When numerous children start disappearing around Newgate Prison, Alfred and Jem do join forces, waging an underground war. They even seek help from Birdie, dragging her away from the safe and comfortable home she's found with Miss Edith Eames. Together they learn that there's only one thing more terrifying than facing a whole plague of bogles - and that's facing some of the sinister people from Jem's past ...

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Allen & Unwin

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1743431368

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9781743431368

The Secret Familiar

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Secret Familiar

By: Catherine Jinks

Beautifully crafted historical fiction set in medieval France, "The Secret Familiar" is a page-turning murder mystery and a fascinating moral tale of betrayal, faith and ultimate truth.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741760828

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9781741760828

The Inquisitor

A Novel

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Inquisitor

A Novel

By: Catherine Jinks

I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Incarnate Word, 1318. So writes Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, following the discovery of his superior's dismembered corpse. At a time when heresy is a heinous offence, routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice. But as he attempts to make sense of this shocking crime, he himself becomes an object of persecution-thanks to his passionate involvement with a mysterious suspect and her beautiful daughter. Pursued as a heretic, implicated as a murderer, Bernard must now face his accusers. To fail such a task, in fourteenth century France, means certain death. Catherine Jinks has crafted a magnificent tale of murder, forbidden lust and betrayal.

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Minotaur Books

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1466882794

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9781466882799

Witch Bank

By: Catherine Jinks

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Witch Bank

By: Catherine Jinks

Quiet, unassuming Heather starts a job in the inner city and finds herself working with a coven of modern day witches__

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0140376968

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Pagan's Daughter

Book Five in the Pagan Chronicles

By: Catherine Jinks

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Pagan's Daughter

Book Five in the Pagan Chronicles

By: Catherine Jinks

The award-winning Pagan Chronicles are international bestsellers. And the action-packed epic continues with the adventures of Babylonne - as feisty, funny and irresistible as her famous father. 'The quality and pace of Jinks's writing is flawless ... a triumph.'- Sydney Morning Herald.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741762669

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9781741762662

Pagan's Vows

By: Catherine Jinks

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Pagan's Vows

By: Catherine Jinks

Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St. Martin and uncovers a dangerous blackmail plot.

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Candlewick Press

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0763620211

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9780763620219

The Rapture

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Rapture

By: Catherine Jinks

Novel for young adult and adult readers. Early in the 21st century, Joseph Peek turned into another person. Now, 80 years later, journalism student Aldo Frewin discovers who that person was - and why he's now living as Jarom Woodruff, aged 16, in a troubled Mormon cult in remote Tasmania. Author's previous titles include 'What's Hector McKerrow Doing These Days?' and 'Eye to Eye', which won the 1998 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award.

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Pan

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0330363069

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9780330363068

Traced

By: Catherine Jinks

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Traced

By: Catherine Jinks

Jane is a contact tracer. She has to call a lot of people and some of them don’t want to talk. Various reasons – tax or immigration issues, infidelity. Domestic abuse. Jane knows all about that. She and her daughter Tara have spent years in hiding from Tara’s manipulative and terrifying ex. Now, as Jane talks to a close contact, she realises the woman on the phone is scared of the same man – and he’s close. Too close. Suddenly the past comes slamming back into the present as Jane realises she and Tara can’t keep running forever. One day, they’re going to be found. Catherine Jinks’ books for adults, young adults and children have been published in a dozen countries and have won numerous awards, including a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the CBCA Book of the Year Award (four times). She lives in the Blue Mountains. ‘[Jinks] is a masterful storyteller, able to easily carry the narrative exigences of plot and character regardless of genre...[she] knows how to dole out the tension, letting the suspense slacken and then ramping up the terror lest you become complacent for a few minutes.’ Guardian on Shelter ‘Catherine Jinks cements herself as a must-read Aussie crime writer with this book. It’s atmospheric and hard-hitting; if you’re a fan of Australian crime thrillers, don’t miss this.’ Australian on The Attack

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Text Publishing

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1922791350

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9781922791351

The Future Trap

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The Future Trap

By: Catherine Jinks

Paula's life is fairly ordinary until she is kidnapped and transported to a space colony 5000 years into the future. She may save an entire species but will she ever be able to escape Gnosis-10 and return to Earth?

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1862912033

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9781862912038

Eye to Eye

By: Catherine Jinks

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Eye to Eye

By: Catherine Jinks

Science fiction novel for teenagers. A boy finds a damaged starship which can think and talk. They become friends and together face a destructive force. The author's other publications include 'Pagan's Vows' which was awarded the CBC Book of the Year Award (Older Readers) in 1996.

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Puffin Books

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0140384448

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9780140384444

The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

By: Catherine Jinks

When Tobias wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before, a mysterious man tells him he has a dangerous condition, and he finds himself involved with a group of werewolves convinced he needs their help.

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Harcourt Children's Books

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0152066152

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9780152066154

The Genius Wars

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Genius Wars

By: Catherine Jinks

Boy-genius Cadel Piggot has a new name (Cadel Greenaius), a new family, and a new life. No more illegal hacking, no more false identities, and most of all, no more Prosper English. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, it's up to him to figure out who was behind it. Before he knows it, Cadel is crossing oceans and continents, barrelling back into the depths of the criminal activity he thought he'd left behind, and coming face to face with Prosper English once again. Can Cadel track down Prosper before it's too late? And what rules will he have to break in the process?

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HarperCollins

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0547505450

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9780547505459

How to Catch a Bogle

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How to Catch a Bogle

By: Catherine Jinks

In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544087089

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9780544087088

Eloise

A Ghost Story

By: Catherine Jinks

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Eloise

A Ghost Story

By: Catherine Jinks

Who is the presence in the bedroom? I wasn't too keen on the Exorcists' Club at first. I mean, playing about with ghosts can be dangerous. But when Bettina begged me to help her aunt contact a dead relative, I gave in. That's what ghost hunters are for, right? If only I'd known what the seance would wake up. Full of suspense, mystery and humour, the books in this series follow Allie as she investigates a number of possibly paranormal events with a mix of logic, intelligence and teenage attitude. 'Cleverly creepy, well-written and well-researched, this is a delightful spine-tingler and a great read.' The Sunday Tasmanian (on Eglantine) 'With great, unexpected twists in the story. This is a very addictive book, and I recommend it to anyone who wants an original mystery story.' Ambrose, Year 8 (on Eloise)

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Allen & Unwin

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1743434227

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9781743434222

The Paradise Trap

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The Paradise Trap

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A boy . . . a witch . . . and a totally sinister paradise: that’s what Marcus gets when his mom rents a scuzzy trailer and parks it near a dirty, noisy beach. Some vacation! Marcus would rather play video games anyway, but when he discovers a staircase underneath the trailer, it looks as if he may be in for some kind of multilevel, multiplayer experience controlled by a complete nightmare of a witch. It’s just like a game—except it’s all too real. The author of Evil Genius spins a brilliantly compelling yarn of a journey into a dark and twisted land—because once you enter the Paradise Trap, there’s no guarantee that you’ll ever leave!

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Egmont USA

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1606842838

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9781606842836

The Last Bogler

By: Catherine Jinks

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The Last Bogler

By: Catherine Jinks

The hunt is on for child-eating monsters in Victorian England in the “wonderfully crafted fantasy series” (School Library Journal). With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a bogler’s apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. It’s dangerous work that takes Ned into mysterious and hidden parts of the city. But times in London are changing. As the machine age emerges, the very existence of bogles is questioned, and the future of bogling is in jeopardy. And the stakes get even higher for the team of boglers when an old enemy appears—a threat that may be deadlier than any bogle… “[A] richly atmospheric adventure trilogy.”—Booklist

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