Catherine Jinks
2) Evil genius
Author
Series
Genius volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must.
4) Genius squad
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.
11) Living hell
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the transformation of a spaceship into a living organism, as seventeen-year-old Cheney leads the hundreds of inhabitants in a fight for survival while machines turn on them, treating all humans as parasites.
12) Pagan's scribe
Author
Series
Pagan chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.
Author
Series
Publisher
Castilllo
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
When Kevin and his family go on vacation and experience many troubles along the way. When they return, no one but Kevin wants to go on a family vacation ever again.
"La familia de Kevin casi nunca sale de vacaciones. Cuando finalmente deciden pasar unos días en casa de una tía, Kevin es el único que se entusiasma. Pero las cosas pronto se complican: el perro se enferma, los pañales se acaban, el auto se descompone. La familia promete no salir...
14) Pagan's vows
Author
Series
Pagan chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Pagan's crusade
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In twelfth-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.
16) Babylonne
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In the violent and predatory world of thirteenth-century Languedoc, Pagan's sixteen-year-old daughter disguises herself as a boy and runs away with a priest who claims to be a friend of her dead father and mother, not knowing whether or not she can trust him, or anyone.
17) Pagan in exile
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After fighting the infidels in Jerusalem in 1188, Lord Roland and his squire Pagan return to Roland's castle in France where they encounter violent family feuds and religious heretics.
18) Shelter
Author
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Meg lives alone: a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know where they've come from, and she's not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows...