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Vashti Hardy

    Brightstorm
    Harley Hitch and the Missing Moon
    Darkwhispers
    Wildspark: A Ghost Machine Adventure
    Harley Hitch and the Fossil Mystery
    Firesong
    • 2024

      A stunningly original novel from the award-winning author of TheBrightstorm Chronicles, perfect for fans of Piers Torday and RossWelford - an action- packed adventure filled with warmth and bigquestions about humanity and family.

      North and the Only One
    • 2024

      The Aviation Parade is coming to Forgetown this summer, and HarleyHitch is creating a flying machine that will really stand out:a flying robot hippogriff! But Harley wants the flying machine tobe a surprise. She soon finds that keeping secrets leads to trickyexplanations and lots of trouble, especially when REAL hippogriffsarrive!

      Harley Hitch Takes Flight
    • 2023

      From sweltering sun to a wild snowstorm, wardens Grace and Tom must brave the elements to save the day in this thrilling Griffin Gate adventure from bestseller Vashti Hardy. It's the height of summer in Moreland, and Grace Griffin and her fellow warden Tom Eely are sweltering in the heat until they answer a strange call for help that comes through on the amazing Griffin map. After teleporting to Oakwell, they find the town paralysed by a freezing snowstorm, which is ruining the famous summer market that brings in visitors and trade. Using their mystery-solving skills and amazing inventions, can Grace and Tom find the cause for the weird weather and restore summer from the snow?

      The Weather Well
    • 2023

      It's Christmas Eve at Lily's new house, but Lily misses the old one. Then, in a moment of magic, she is whisked away to the NorthPole! Santa's elfbots need her help to invent new toys from used,discarded ones. Lily comes to learn that with a dash of imagination,she can make anything - even, perhaps, a new home...

      Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop (HB)
    • 2023

      Harley is back with another inventive adventure! Eager to best her class nemesis Fenelda in the contest for best invention, Harley dreams big with her time travel machine. But sadly it doesn't seem to work. But what about the strange happenings around Inventia - and the huge dinosaur that has been spotted in Forgetown?

      Harley Hitch and the Fossil Mystery
    • 2023

      It's Christmas Eve at Lily's new house, but Lily misses the old one. Then, in a moment of magic, she is whisked away to the NorthPole! Santa's elfbots need her help to invent new toys from used,discarded ones. Lily comes to learn that with a dash of imagination,she can make anything - even, perhaps, a new home...

      Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop (PB)
    • 2023

      Gan is back home in Nadvaaryn after her epic adventure with the Brightstormtwins in the north. But her uncle is ill, so she needsa cure in the deserts outside the capital city. But her adventureslead her to question her broader mission: what's the right thingto do, when those she seeks to protect also pose a grave danger?

      Serpent of the Sands
    • 2022

      Darkwhispers

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      In this spirited sequel, the Brightstorm twins venture to hidden lands in search of a missing explorer and the secrets he uncovered. The ragtag crew of Captain Harriet Culpepper is off on another adventure! Ermitage Wrigglesworth, the notable explorer and author, has been reported missing in Stella Oceanus to the east. Twins Arthur and Maudie are eager to answer the call of adventure to find him, but their old nemesis and newly discovered aunt, Eudora Vane, is also on the hunt. As Lontown’s most famous explorer families set sail aboard their sky-ships, it soon becomes clear that Eudora’s not just after the missing explorer. There’s a secret she’s chasing, something Wrigglesworth had discovered before he vanished, something that definitely shouldn’t be in Eudora Vane’s hands. The Aurora’s crew will have to journey to uncover Wrigglesworth’s secret first, and will discover new lands and new friends along the way. . . . Return to Vashti Hardy’s “marvelously imagined” world (Publishers Weekly) in this sweeping and propulsive follow up to Brightstorm, hailed by the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books as “a novel of grandeur and action.”

      Darkwhispers
    • 2022

      The Aurora crew are going on a mission to the volcanic north, where years before the Brightstorm twins' parents discovered the moth that is their family symbol. But scheming, ambitious Eudora Vane is still dedicated to destroying the Brightstorm family name, and the further the Aurora travels, the more long-buried secrets are revealed.

      Firesong
    • 2022

      Harley Hitch is back with another inventive adventure! When the circus comes to town, Harley's curiosity get the better of her - and she accidentally breaks a cabinet that makes things disappear! It soon becomes clear the Moon has gone missing. Is Harley to blame? Can she sort out the mess before it's too late?

      Harley Hitch and the Missing Moon