Patricia Bow: 7 books

When Jessie and her friend Pete sneak into August Erasmus’s lab, they mean to rescue his abused animals. Instead they find a boy in a cage. Only one thing to do: they set him free, and Jessie promises to hide him. The strange, pale boy is August’s son, Lucan. He knows he’s strange. He...

Something is poisoning the hidden gates linking Earth and Mythrin. And on Mythrin, dragons are being enslaved. When two dazed strangers appear in Dunstone, Amelia knows in her part-dragon bones that the boy is her dragon friend Ty. But who is the man with lilac eyes? Amelia and her cousin...

“Drumbeats in the empty forest. No drummer: just the drums. Night falls, and the drums beat, and a shadow comes creeping out of the woods... That’s how the killing always starts.” Linnet shrugs off the lurid stories about Lynx Leap. But she’s a guest in the huge, decaying house in...

Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes,...

Ever hear of Jenny Greenteeth? She’s a hag that lives in dangerous pools, so the folktales say. She grabs kids by the ankles and drags them down to drown. Of course, those stories were invented to keep kids from harm. “Don’t you play near that pool, or Jenny Greenteeth will get you!”...

It’s a dream job  — a chance to model the fabulous outfits designed by Jones & Hewens for their new Corduroy Rose label. For Sally, Tasha and Fay, it’s a way to end the summer on a high note before school begins. And it doesn’t hurt a bit that head designer Peter Hewens is...

WIB GET OUT NOW Letter by letter, scratched by an invisible hand, the warning formed across the back of the piano before Wib’s eyes. People in Amstey say the old Morphy house is haunted, “has been for years. Everybody knows that.” Wib, who once lived there, knows only...