Deborah Abela Bücher

Seit der großen Flut vor drei Jahren müssen sie sich allein über den Dächern der versunkenen Stadt durchschlagen – die kämpferische Isabella und ihre vier Freunde. Auf der Hut vor Erwachsenen und mörderischen Stürmen haben sie in den oberen Etagen eines wunderlichen Hauses Unterschlupf gefunden. Bis der draufgängerische Quentin auftaucht, der eine Flugmaschine gebaut hat. Endlich können sie sich weiter in die Ruinen ihrer alten Welt hineinwagen, aber die Freiheit bringt neue Gefahren. Auf dem Wasser treibt Pirat Sneddon sein Unwesen … und unter den Wellen lauert etwas noch viel Schlimmeres!

Isabella and her friends are nervous about what they'll find in the New City. It's inland and it's dry - far from the flooded city they've just left. Will their lives here be as luxurious and carefree as Xavier says? In fact, bleak, uncertain times have brought darkness and danger to New City. The city has been divided in two- the citizens who have, and those who the ruling Major General says have come to steal from them - the refugees who have fled the rising waters, who are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of the city. The kids of Grimsdon once faced sea monsters and evil harbour lords, but now they face new threats. From freakish weather events that whip up with little warning to the fierce misinformation that swirls around the city to the theft of their freedom, now they face the prison-like restrictions and control of the New City. Unlike the refugees, they're heralded as heroes. But what does the Major General really want from them?

Angeline and Edgar show a new young ghost-catcher the ropes, in the first installment of this funny, ghostly series Angeline and Edgar might be kids, but they're also two of Ghost Club's youngest ghost-catchers. Got a problem with a ghost, poltergeist, or ghoul? Can't sleep because of all the rattling chains and cackling laughter? Angeline and Edgar are the experts to call. So it's entirely logical that when new kid Dylan joins Ghost Club, Angeline and Edgar are the perfect candidates to introduce him to everything he needs to know, from which ghost-catching gadget will do the trick to when to run like crazy to avoid being splattered with ectoplasm. The trouble is, Dylan's not quite sure he wants to be a ghost-catcher.

India Wimple can spell. Brilliantly. Every Friday night, she and her family watch the Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee. When the Wimples suggest she enter the next Bee, India says she's not good enough - but her family won't hear it and encourage her to sign up. There are plenty of obstacles to reaching the finals- something in India's past has made her terribly shy, and moving on to each round involves finding the money to make it happen. And finally, there's Summer Millicent Ernestine Beauregard-Champion, a spoilt rich girl who is determined to win - and isn't afraid to step on anyone who gets in her way.