Chris Wooding, Author . Scholastic/Push $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-439-09013-1
A pyromaniac makes for an unusual protagonist in this provocative first novel, but the plot unfolds too slowly, and the characters' actions are often unconvincing. Not only is 11th grader Cal painfully shy and filled with self-loathing, but the...
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Chris Wooding, Author . Scholastic/Push $6.99 (142p) ISBN 978-0-439-09012-4
Wooding's (Kerosene
) fast-paced, brief novel takes place over the course of just a few hours, resulting in the immediacy of a real-time structure. Narrator Jay, a British teen, feels his tight circle of school friends begin to drift apart after
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Chris Wooding, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-439-54656-0
"The city of London has a secret heart. It is a clotted thing of crumbling stone and dripping gutters." Wooding (Kerosene
) stages his sensuous horror tale on darkened cobblestone streets where horses still pull hansom cabs and gaslights...
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Chris Wooding, Author . Scholastic $7.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-439-59851-4
"The author sets a riveting pace from the get-go, as a 17-year-old wych-hunter prowls London's Old Quarter in search of a Cradlejack known for taking babies," said PW
's starred review. "An imaginative tour de force." Ages...
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Chris Wooding, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-439-75570-2
Smart and sassy Poison, the eponymous 16-year-old heroine of Wooding's (The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
) dark fantasy is told, "Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it." The erstwhile Foxglove (she...
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Chris Wooding, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.99 (310p) ISBN 978-0-439-86513-5
Wooding (The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray) builds his new thriller around an ingenious idea that allows him to change the rules of the story at a moment's notice. The city of Orokos, a dismal burg in a dark and poisonous future, is prone to ""probabili
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Chris Wooding, Spectra, $16 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-52251-1
This slow-moving but inventive series starter from steampunk author Wooding (The Fade) introduces Darian Frey, captain of the Ketty Jay, and a varied gang of smalltime freebooters. When a routine heist goes horribly wrong, Frey is charged with...
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Chris Wooding. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-78116-796-0
With action, adventure, and blistering stupidity, the crew of the airship Ketty Jay lives down to its poor reputation, as Wooding takes a third careening trip (after The Black Lung Captain) through his chaotic steampunk world. Capt. Darian Frey...
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Chris Wooding. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-60392-8
In this atmospheric thriller, Wooding (Pandemonium) ushers in the end of the world, with the point of origination being a secluded English boarding school. The appearance of strange silver beetles on the grounds of Mortingham Academy are the spark...
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Chris Wooding. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-545-94494-6
In this adrenaline-spiked adventure, teens race souped-up vehicles through a postapocalyptic wasteland in order to win the ultimate prize: a life of luxury aboard a utopian orbital habitat. For best friends Cassica (a daredevil driver) and Shiara (a
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Chris Wooding, Author, Dan Chernett, Illustrator , illus. by Dan Chernett. Scholastic Press $14.99 (377p) ISBN 978-0-545-16043-8
Toying with the menace and adventure of urban legends and comic books, Wooding (The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
) introduces readers to the bizarre realm of Malice in this novel/comic book hybrid. Every kid knows how to get there: gather certain...
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Chris Wooding and Cassandra Diaz. Scholastic/Graphix, $22.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-545-25221-8
Seifer Tombchewer is a star athlete in the boonies of the Darkling Realm, a kingdom of winged people ruled by the powerful Pandemonium clan. He’s longing for a life outside his tiny village tucked away in the mountains when he is pulled into the...
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