Bøger af Bill Nagelkerke

Athens has been lumbered with an embarrassing name, a father obsessed with house renovating and a younger brother equally obsessed with emulating his hero, the magician and escapologist Harry Houdini. Add to the mix - a talent quest, a crush Athens has on a boy named Troy and a series of unsettling, ghostly messages from an array of mirrors left behind in the latest house in which Athens and her family are living

Heaven and Hell are the same place . . .When you see the impossible, who do you tell? What do you say?Jacinta has spent her childhood accompanying her father to work, and spending time in the bigwigs' stand, high up above the sports field, watching her dad go about his chores, while her younger brother helps at his side. When Jacinta begins receiving messages from Mary, Mother of God, her parents and the local bishop don't know how to respond.

Emily, the hero of 'Emily's Penny Dreadful', is back. She has an idea for a new 'dreadful' story, this time all about a group of burglars who call themselves the Dead Skin Gang. At the same time, Emily starts her own gang, the Dreadfuls. Her best friend, Robin, isn't too keen on joining, while Uncle Raymond doesn't like all the noise the Dreadfuls make. But then the next door neighbour's dog goes missing, and the Dreadfuls (and Uncle Raymond) have a job to do.

The Green Team, sometimes called The Cauliflower Ears, is getting ready to play its last game of rugby of the season. It's the Grand Final of the Junior Home World Cup. And it's Wings' last game with the Greens. But can the Green Team possibly beat its arch-rival, the Reds, sometimes known as . . .the Devils?

When Emily's aunt and uncle come to stay, following a house fire, they take over Emily's room, something that Emily is less than pleased about. All that they bring with them is a valuable 'Penny Dreadful' magazine. Emily loves words and writing. She decides to write her own 'dreadful' story. But endings are the hardest things of all to write. Will Emily's Uncle Raymond - himself a writer - help Emily finish her story?

Magic tricks, practical jokes, a ride on a ghost train, the antics of lazy King Lion . . . Here are silly stories, funny stories, stories of the everyday, and stories of far away. Many of these stories were first published in the New Zealand School Journal.

What demons sit on YOUR shoulder? Andrea McNamara, daughter of Catholic parents with a lifetime of 'protest' behind them, and granddaughter of an Irish matriarch, has finished university and is looking forward to starting her new life.But then she meets Chris, her former boyfriend, and self-styled classics geek and atheist.The meeting prompts Andrea to look back at her her final year at high school when she met Chris for the first time and when her life began to change in ways both challenging and unexpected.

A bus accident in the mountains . . .Seeing the sights of Paris . . .Busking in the busy mall . . .Getting a tattoo . . .A cold stranger . . .Turning points, of one sort or another.Many of these stories and poems for young adults have been previously published in magazines and anthologies.

Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they'd choose for themselves.