Iain Lawrence: 16 books

A modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay, by award-winning author Iain Lawrence. A Junior Library Guild Selection Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast...

Noch steht die Rache an Mr. Goodfellow aus, der Tom Tins Familie ins Verderben gestürzt hat. Aber Tom gibt nicht auf, obwohl sein Leben durch die Begegnung mit zwei Gestrandeten eine weitere grausame Wendung nimmt. - Furios führt Iain Lawrence seine Abenteuer-Trilogie über Tom Tin zu einem Ende, das eigentlich auch ein neuer Anfang ist.

After seeing his father hauled off to debtor’s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his family’s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasure—and...

As Tom Tin nears Australia, where he’s to serve a lengthy sentence for a murder he didn’t commit, he and his fellow convict, Midgely, plot their escape. No matter that the ship carrying them and the other juvenile criminals is captained by Tom’s father. Tom knows his father can’t help him...

ADRIFT AT SEA, Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing whether they've been saved or set on a course toward doom. But after rescuing two men stranded on a melting iceberg, Tom begins to suspect that these unsavory...

There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors'...

"There’s pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook you alive," says Mr. Spencer to his son. These words will come to haunt 17-year-old John as he embarks on his first voyage to foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his crew of the Dragon set off for waters...

Readers will relish this companion to the highly acclaimed adventure, The Wreckers: Young John is charmed by the Dragon, the schooner he is planning to sail to London and use for the honest wool trade.  But a mysterious gentleman delivers an ominous warning to "steer clear of that ship,"...

In the forests of Siberia, in the first years of the 20th century, a white pony runs free with his herd. But his life changes forever when he's captured by men. Years of hard work and cruelty wear him out. When he's chosen to be one of 20 ponies to accompany the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott on his...

A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world. The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn...

Harold Kline is an albino--an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. It's been that way all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold's loneliness. He's eager to meet...

London um 1825. Als sein Vater ins Schuldgefängnis kommt, beschließt Tom Tin, sich an dem Mann zu rächen, der seine Familie ins Unglück gestürzt hat. Doch in den nebligen Straßen der Großstadt wimmelt es von finsteren Gestalten: Tom stößt auf einen Blinden, der den Uferschlamm der Themse nach Schätzen absucht - und ihn bedroht, als er selbst einen aufregenden Fund macht.

Tom Tin und sein Freund Midge wagen die Flucht in die Inselwelt Neuguineas. Was sie dort erwartet, ist alles andere als das Paradies, das Midgeaus den Schilderungen des Pfarrers in seinem Lieblingsbuch kennt. Und alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Fluch des Jolly-Diamanten seine Finder Tom Tin in weitere grausige Abenteuer stürzen wird.

Laurie ist eine geniale Geschichtenerfinderin, und mit ihrer besonderen Begabung entführt sie die Kinder einer Polio-Station in eine fantastische Welt. Was als Fabulieren beginnt, wird schließlich so wichtig wie das Leben selbst. In der Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Krankheit entwickeln die Kinder...