Böcker av Amy Laurens

Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but on a hike with temperatures falling fast? Potentially fatal...Tims Testing Day: Lunchtime at the Tims Compound, and the test that determines the direction of Tim's life for the rest of forever happens any minute now. Nerves jitter - but you can't prepare for a test when all it does is see you for who you really are.Familiars Need Enrichment Too: Sick to death of imprisonment in the castle, Bystar the ferret demands a reprieve. For enrichment, you know. Of course, there's such a thing as too much enrichment...Had Kafka Been A Teenaged Girl: At four o'clock in the afternoon, Stella wakes up from her nap. As a ladybeetle. A Rottweiler-sized ladybeetle, still somehow in her lacy nightgown. How on earth can she explain this to her family - preferably before they swat her?A Plague On Both Your Colonies: Remm pines for the love of his life, Jillian, but separated by family feuding, they struggle to overcome the odds as the invading forces of the Helio march down upon the world...To Walk One Path Alone: It's hard to tell directions in the Realm, but Saefda knows which way to go. Until something - someone - interrupts her path, waylaying her mission and transforming her allegiances in the fae world foreve

Six years ago, Mina saved a fox in the bush. As thunder growled and lightning flashed, she thought she saw... something. Now, as graduation draws near and Mina plots her escape from backcountry Jilamatang to big-city Sydney, the town trembles. Two children, stolen from near their school. An elderly woman, missing. Mina wants to ignore it all, to focus on leaving her mother's depression behind for good. But the connection? More personal than she could ever imagine. If you love the romance of Maggie Stiefvater's The Wolves of Mercy Falls and the family dynamics of Melina Marchetta's Saving Francesca, get ready to fall in love with A Fox Of Storms And Starlight, a richly-imagined story about love, mental illness, and the value of family.

Wrestling with insomnia leaves Harry desperate enough to do the unthinkable: summon a demon for assistance. Naturally he gets more than he bargained for in this two-for-one deal that leaves him fighting for an unexpected ally's life. Of course, unexpected allies sometimes bring unexpected gifts, as well... A quirky urban fantasy tale about making friends in surprising places, for readers who appreciate moral shades of grey.

Imprisoned in a back bedroom with a darkness deeper than any lack of light for company, Ava bides her time. Fury boils inside her, keeping her going, giving her purpose. Soon-very soon-she can let her rage spill over... And her captors won't know what hit them. For everyone who ever dreamed of stripping back the darkness to expose every rotten secret-and make the ones responsible pay.

A peed-on stuffed unicorn, children who refuse to go to sleep, and a husband absent for five more days: not Ashley's description of an ideal evening. But maybe, with a little shift in perspective, she can still salvage the rest of her night... A heart-warming slice-of-life story about treasuring the little moments of quiet in a chaotic world.

Adela's hand? Burning with pain from a magical bullet strike. Hard to concentrate with that much pain distracting you. She must push it aside and raise the protective bubble around their campsite though, because the middle of a guerrilla warzone? Yeah. Not a good place for Adela and her friends to sit around unprotected. But of course, the pain isn't the only thing distracting Adela right now... Another Changing Tides story exploring the consequences of two former enemies being thrown together on the same side of a magical war.

On her way home from her day job in the middle of a heatwave, all Linny wants from life right now? A cold shower. Then the head of her dive team pages: a salvage job out on the reef. Even better than a shower - if Linny gets there in time. She'd better. Because today, a centuries-old mystery awakens on the reef. Everything Linny knows? About to come crumbling down... A haunting tale for everyone who ever longed for something more beyond the ordinary edges of life.

Every year, the town of Linderch gathers to watch the Ice Cream Crown Skating Races, a series of trick races skated on a pond of magically deep-frozen ice cream. This year, fourteen-year-old George intends to win. If he loses, his family loses their house. George''s biggest challenge? His year off, with no practice. Or so he thinks.Because this year, something sinister simmers, a dangerous mystery founded on a long-running grudge that may stand to jeopardise everything...A fantasy-mystery for anyone who loves whimsy - and would fight to protect it. 

The last time Joanna saw Ryan, someone died. Still, unlike everyone else, Joanna trusts Ryan. But does she trust him enough to help her enact revenge on her high school nemesis, who bullies her cruelly and mercilessly? Does she need to trust him, if she doesn't care about the consequences? A dark, young adult fantasy tale about bullies, revenge-and unexpected consequences.