Wooding, Chris

When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.

When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.

With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.

Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when she discovers that her younger sister has been abducted by the phaeries, she decides to seek out the Phaerie Lord to get her back.

Seth, having managed to escape from Malice, a world that exists within a frightening comic book, is desperate to save Kady, who remains trapped, but cannot figure out the best way to mount a rescue attempt; while Kady searches for Havoc, a rebel group of kids who want to fight Malice's cruel overlord, Tall Jake, and stop his influence from spreading beyond the comic book world.

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.

Jay, his parents out of town, decides to throw a start-of-summer party to cement his relationship with friends who will be going to different schools the next term, and hopefully begin a relationship with Jo, a girl he has had a crush on for years, but things start to go wrong when misunderstandings and gate crashers intrude.