New Releases by Marcus Sedgwick

An interactive activity title for 9-12-year-olds on the power of kindness You can choose to make the world a better place. The power is within you! Every one of us experiences the world differently – we have different worries and problems, and we all have unique hopes and dreams – but there’s one thing that can unite us and make the world a better place, and that’s KINDNESS! Kindness is cool! No, really! Kindness can create positive change in all our lives. Whether it’s being a friend to someone who seems lonely, or simply smiling or giving somebody a thumbs up. When we support each other, we can be our best selves. Be the Change: Be Kind is your handbook on how to use your own voice to empower yourself and others to spread kindness. Award-winning children’s author Marcus Sedgwick tells the story of kindness – where it comes from, what it feels like and perhaps most importantly why it matters – and asks YOU what you would do in different everyday scenarios. ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

"A mysterious narrator witnesses three change-making moments of rebellion and revolution, and one of them is now"--Back cover.

Marcus Sedgwick, autor bestseller internacional, escribe sobre los monstruos que hemos creado, tanto en la literatura, como en nuestras propias mentes, en esta reinterpretación del Frankenstein de Mary Shelley. ¿Los monstruos siempre se quedan en el libro en el que nacieron? ¿Están conectadas a la vida exterior sus vidas del papel y nunca ponen un pie en el mundo real? 1816, Villa Diodati, a las orillas del Lago Lemán: el Año sin Verano. Mientras Byron Polidori y el Sr. y la Sra. Shelley leen viejas historias e imaginan otras nuevas, todas ellas relacionadas con fantasmas. Nacido de la imaginación de los Shelley se encuentra Frankenstein, una de las historias de terror más influyentes de todos los tiempos. En una casa de una remota montaña, en lo más alto de los Alpes Franceses, un escritor se encuentra criando a la creación de los Shelley. La realidad y la percepción se unen, alimentadas por pensamientos envenenados. La humanidad crea monstruos; pero ¿quién crea a quién realmente? Este es un libro sobre la razón, la imaginación y sobre los actos relacionados con la lectura y la escritura. Una fantasmagórica novela de Marcus Sedgwick que constituye una celebración al legado de Mary Shelley. Reseñas: «Una fina y extraordinariamente bien escrita evocación sobre las fuentes más profundas del terror.» The Guardian «Una tensa y amenazadora historia de fantasmas.» The Bookseller «Ambiciosa y original.» T he Observer «El ritmo de la historia es constante y las imágenes que componen el libro ayudan a que te sientas casi tan angustiado como el propio escritor.» Alas de Sofía «Una historia diferente, original, que se adentra en el acto mismo de escribir, en la relación íntima del autor y su obra.» Anika entre libros

One long, hot summer, two children disappear on a school trip. One child is eventually found, but Porter is worried that no one is even looking for the other, Stephen, anymore. Why can no one remember who Stephen is? What happened on the school trip? And why does Porter get the feeling that supernatural forces from deep in the past are at play?

“A timely, sobering message about how humankind’s treatment of the environment impacts the environment’s treatment of humankind.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Ash arrives in Snowflake, Arizona, and finds a small community of people who are sick, including Ash’s stepbrother, Bly. But it isn’t any ordinary sickness: modern life is poisoning them, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor’s response is, “It’s all in your mind.” Meanwhile, the world beyond is succumbing to a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This humane and thoughtful novel explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.

''Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?'' The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the Shelleys is Frankenstein, one of the most influential tales of horror of all time. In a remote mountain house, high in the French Alps, an author broods on Shelley''s creation. Reality and perception merge, fuelled by poisoned thoughts. Humankind makes monsters; but who really creates who? This is a book about reason, the imagination, and the creative act of reading and writing. Marcus Sedgwick''s ghostly, menacing novel celebrates the legacy of Mary Shelley''s literary debut in its bicentenary year.

First published in Great Britain in 2007.

A potent, powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by PRINTZ MEDAL winning and CARNEGIE MEDAL, COSTA BOOK AWARD and GUARDIAN CHILDREN''S FICTION PRIZE shortlisted novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez - twenty metres outside town lies a fence, and beyond it, America - the dangerous goal of many a migrant. Faustino is one such trying to escape from the gang he''s been working for. He''s dipped into a pile of dollars he was supposed to be hiding and now he''s on the run. He and his friend, Arturo, have only 36 hours to replace the missing money, or they''re as good as dead. Watching over them is Saint Death. Saint Death (or Santissima Muerte) - she of pure bone and charcoal-black eye, she of absolute loyalty and neutral morality, holy patron to rich and poor, to prostitute and narco-lord, criminal and police-chief. A folk saint, a rebel angel, a sinister guardian.

Em 2073, na remota e fascinante ilha Bendita, há rumores de que ninguém envelhece e de que não há crianças.O jornalista Eric Sete desembarca na ilha para investigar esse mistério. Depara-se, então, com Merle, uma jovem e linda garota. E Eric tem a estranha sensação de que ela sempre habitou seu coração e de que estava destinado a encontrá-la. Mais uma vez. A ilha das sete luas é uma história de amor e mistério que ultrapassa o tempo, o espaço e a própria vida. Uma narrativa de horror e beleza, ternura e sacrifício.

Von Romantik bis Mystery über Grauen und Suspense Eric und Merle lernen sich auf der abgelegenen Insel Blessed kennen, aber fast scheint es beiden, als wären sie alte Bekannte. Sind sie sich früher schon einmal begegnet? Marcus Sedgwick entführt uns auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit durch sieben Zeitalter, und immer wieder treffen wir in jeder Epoche auf Eric und Merle, doch mal sehen wir sie als Mutter und Sohn, mal als alter Mann und Kind, dann als Geschwister, und schließlich begegnen wir ihnen wieder als Paar. Was verbindet diese zwei Menschen über den Tod hinaus? Was führt sie in jedem neuen Leben, in jedem neuen Zeitalter wieder zusammen? Der Flieger: Über der Insel Blessed stürzt im Jahr 1944 während des Krieges ein Flieger ab. Der Familienvater Erik rettet den Mann und bringt den Verletzten mit nach Hause, obwohl die Familie nichts mit dem Krieg zu tun haben will. Schließlich hat der Krieg ihnen eine Tochter genommen. Als dem Flieger später bei einer gefährlichen Aktion die Rettung gelingt und er zurück zu seiner Einheit kehrt, bleibt die Frage: Zu welchem Preis? Und was wird er Jahre danach seiner Tochter Merle davon erzählen?

Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.

Download the first 15 chapters of THE GHOSTS OF HEAVEN by award winning author, Marcus Sedgwick for FREE! Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of this mesmerizing novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place.

Originally published in Great Britain by Orion Children''s Books.

If life has taught me one thing, it is this: that the worst monsters are entirely human. It began in a hole in the ground, in Paris, in the days after the liberation. What I saw there I saw only for the time it takes a match to burn down, and yet it decided the rest of my life. I tried to forget it at first, to ignore it, but I could not. It came back to me; he came back to me. He hurt people I loved... And so I took the first step on a journey from which there would be no return; a path that led me to fear, to hatred and to revenge - but, above all else, to blood.

In the fifth laugh-out-loud adventure from BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-shortlisted Marcus Sedgwick and Pete Williamson, Elf Girl and Raven Boy head to Terror Town to save the world from the Goblin King.

Au château d''Autrepart, vit une famille bizarre : Lord Valvigne, le célèbre inventeur de la roue carrée ; Lady Menthalo, sorcière à la retraite, autrefois redoutée pour son terrible sort des verrues violettes. Solstice, leur fille, qui passe son temps à composer des poèmes tristes. Et leur fils, Hellébore, qui ne se déplace jamais sans son singe, Pote. Heureusement, Edgar, un corbeau centenaire, veille sur cette bande d''hurluberlus. Et depuis peu, il a fort à faire : une terrible créature à écailles erre autour du château tandis que les servantes disparaissent l''une après l''autre.

Elf Girl and Raven Boy get hot and bothered in the desert as they come a few steps (with sand in their shoes) closer to finding the Singing Sword and the Tears of the Moon. They bump into a grumpy camel, a grumpier genie, Sultanas, Sandpeople and scorpions as they try to save the world from the Goblin King.

Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabitedNthroughout various time periodsNby Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant.

Framed for a murder she did not commit, the innocent and beautiful Christie has no other choice but to run for her life. Set in a near-future Britain, this title tracks a young girl''s journey from the flooded landmarks of London to the vast, scorched and abandoned hills of the north.

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Cudweed encounters aliens and a time machine in this funny, quirky story, perfect for beginner readers, from the bestselling Raven Mysteries team, award-winning and multi-award-nominated author Marcus Sedgwick and illustrator Pete Williamson. With short, accessible chapters with full-colour illustrations on every page, these stories are perfect for bridging the gap from picture books to fiction.

Más divertidos que la familia Monster, la familia Adams, la familia Simpson y cualquier otra extravagancia familiar. Como autoproclamado guardián del Castillo de Otramano, Edgar el cuervo muestra una cierta dosis de alarma cuando observa como una cola bastante desagradable se esconde entre los ruibarbos del huerto, y después las mozas de la cocina empiezan a desaparecer misteriosamente. Por no decir nada de la inundación que amenaza al castillo. Nunca se puede uno confiar cerca de la familia Otramano. Lord Pantalín, Mentolina, Silvestre y su mascota Colegui, y la hermana mayor, la hermosa y gótica Solsticio, a la que Edgar adora, tienen la facultad de meterse en los líos más horripilantes. Suerte que cuentan con Edgar...

Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. In the sixth of the Raven Mysteries, all manner of disaster descends on Castle Otherhand; weirdness abounds, the family are on the verge of being thrown out of their own home, and there''s still no sign of the fabled treasure of the Otherhand. Worse still, there''s no sign of Edgar, either. So will it be diamonds or doom for the Otherhands?

In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in the inhospitable village of Chust and settle there as woodcutters. When a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter''s drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia, intoxicated by their love of life and drawn into their deadly quest. For these travellers are Vampire Slayers and Chust is a dying community - where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living. Years on from My Swordhand is Singing and Peter is still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. His search leads him to Venice, a city whose beauty disguises many ugly secrets. The Shadow Queen is there, gathering strength, recruiting a new army of the Undead for a final confrontation. Hers is the kiss of death.

An eerie, modern gothic thriller about what awaits us after death - angels or the devil . . . A fast-paced, dark, sinister and powerful novel, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2011 and longlisted for the Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize 2010. It''s summer. Taken from the buzz of London, her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance, Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it''s a place that doesn''t like to let you go, and she knows it inside out: the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards, year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against their better judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends, and during that long, hot, claustrophobic summer they discover more about each other - and about Winterfold - than either could have wanted. Frightening secrets are uncovered that would have been best long forgotten. Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith''s stories is that of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow . . .

A present-day boy, a seventeenth-century girl, an ancient crone: for a single moment, their lives are fused by fire. A tense, brilliant and eerie novel, nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. The fire was a family tragedy that Jamie can''t forget, even in his dreams. And now there is something terrifying happening to him in Crownhill, the village where he''s been sent to get over his problems. Something to do with an evil old witch who gets into his nightmares, and a frightened girl, the victim of a long-ago witch hunt, whose presence lingers on . . . As the dark secrets of Crownhill are revealed, Jamie has to confront his worst fears in order to free himself from the horrors of the past.