The Homeward Bounders
When They threw Jamie out to the Boundaries, he was at first too shocked and amazed to make much sense of it. He'd been told he could go Home if he found himself in the right world, but life seemed to be a succession of strange countries, some pleasant, most dangerous, where survival was all that mattered. Little by little, though, Jamie realised that there was a curious logic in things - he wasn't the only Homeward bounder, for one thing, though some, like Ahasuerus and the Flying Dutchman, had been trying to get Home for a very long time. But Jamie decided to try and do more than that. Together with some other Homeward Bounders - Helen, who could do extraordinary things with her withered arm, Joris the demon hunter (and Konstam his master) - and other friends, he plotted to oppose Them direct, in the fortress which seemed to be Their chief stronghold. This is a remarkable, powerful story, full of unexpected events and ideas, which will absorb and fascinate all those who read it.

Eight Days of Luke
"Just kindle a flame, and I'll be with you," said Luke. David thought he was joking, but certainly whenever he struck a match Luke turned up immediately. And David could do with a friend, for he lived with some extremely nasty relations, who wanted him to spend his summer holidays on a maths tuition course. Well, Luke saved him from that, and started him on what seemed like a much more promising series of adventures - but he also managed to make life rather complicated. Why, for example, was the gigantic gardener, Mr Chew, so interested in Luke? Why did his relations allow Mr Wedding, a total stranger, to take him out for lunch? And why did Luke keep insisting that on the day David had tried to curse his relations, he'd actually spoken the words of an unlocking spell, and released Luke from the chains that bound him? Sticking to his friend, David finds he must help him - and the help that is needed is most unusual indeed. This is a fast, exciting story, with splendid comic episodes combined with deeper, darker elements.

The Ogre Downstairs
'Caspar and Johnny pelted up to Gwinny's room regardless of noise. Johnny thought she was on fire, Casper thought she was being eaten away by acids. They bursty into the room and stood staring. Gwinny did not seem to be there. Her lamp was lit, her bed empty, her window shut, and her dollshouse and all her other things arranged around as usual, but they could not see Gwinny. ' "She's gone," said Caspar, helplessly. ' "No, I haven't," said Gwinny, her voice quiverring rather. "I'm up here." Gwinny appeared to be hanging from the ceiling. She looked a bit like a puppet. "And I can't come down," she added. ' She couldn't either. At least not until the vol. pulv. splashed on her from Johnny's chemistry set had work off. The chemistry set had been a surprising present from the Ogre, her stepfather. They hated him, and they hated his two sons, Malcolm and Douglas, just as much. When they weren't wishing themselves dead, they wished the Ogre and Malcolm and Douglas were. At any rate, the chemistry set looked like being a distraction. Especially when it proved to contain such curious chemicals. They saw what vol. pulv. did to Gwinny, and of course, tried it out on themselves.

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