New Releases by Ellen Potter

Her house is full of ghosts, there’s a wild beast in the garden and her best friend lives in a cave! All Olivia Kidney ever wanted was a nice, normal life. But that’s just not possible for a girl who can talk to spirits. Olivia’s mad world gets even madder when she begins to investigate a mysterious anthropologist who lives in an underground maze beneath the streets of New York. There she meets a gang of ghost kids who have been trapped for over a hundred years. Helping them out is one of her wildest challenges yet!

While preparing for her participation in the princepessa''s wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie.

Ultra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-year-old girl could want. She’s fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster, and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses and princesses, and decides who is important enough to stay and who she will kick to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara’s world is turned upside down when she discovers that a peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her upturned nose.With the help of a whip-smart twelveyear- old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-hundred-year-old secret.

Les parents de Clara Frankofile tiennent le Too Much, le plus chic des restaurants new-yorkais. Clara fait partie des Personnes Importantes, et, par conséquent, ne se mêle pas au commun des mortels. Chaque jour, derrière ses lunettes noires, elle scrute d''un œil expert les clients qui se pressent dans cet établissement à la mode : s''ils montrent la moindre pointe de vulgarité, elle les congédie sur-le-champ. Mais son petit monde est bientôt chamboulé par une étrange révélation. Aidée par Anabelle, une amie de fortune, dont l''occupation favorite est... le cambriolage, Clara s''embarque dans une dangereuse enquête, à travers la ville et à travers le temps, pour tenter de résoudre un secret vieux de plus de deux siècles...

Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.