Böcker av David Kennedy McCulloch

Mairin learns to defeat mean strong enemies with kindness. Some sandstone magic and a smoky amber quartz crystal helps, too. DAVID KENNEDY McCULLOCHwith illustrations byBRIANNA O. OSASERI

Maggie and Eleanor Crabtree love to annoy stuffy grownups with their quick wit and reckless behavior. But when the girls get kidnapped and imprisoned in their own family mansion on the rugged west coast of Scotland life becomes a lot less fun. This gang of international art thieves will make their lives miserable until their father, a famous art historian, gives the crooks a priceless collection of goblets, brooches and swords.Surrounded by evil, mean humans and a slobbering guard dog they have no way to escape... unless a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered rock creature can help them come up with a plan involving secret codes, frozen pizza, a tape recorder, stinking sausage meat, a rusty paint can and a chamber pot full of poop.

Public buildings and monuments are collapsing around the world... and no one knows why! A reclusive multinational corporation claims to have found the answer. Finnley McDougall and his best friend Hadley are growing apart from each other as things at school become weirder and weirder. Tessa of the Golden Star remains stuck in the wrong place and time. Wullie-The-Mahaar-Gome, their scruffy, rude, bad-tempered protector seems unable to help. Despite the victory in the Battle of Tårsjo Plain life on the planet does not seem safer. Power in the gome world is shifting to a city in Central America ruled by a cruel tyrant who uses slaves to build up his empire and protects his city by a volcano below and a lake up above filled with murderous bull sharks. Can anything restore balance between the worlds of gomes and humans? The answer may lie in an inaccessible canyon on the Navajo Reservation on the Colorado Plateau that is drawing in the attention of the world.

After spending over seven decades roaming the world with Wullie-The-Mahaar-Gome having adventures, we finally persuaded Hugh McDougall to share notes and sketches from the journals he kept during his travels. We hope that this field guide will help more of you to better understand the remarkable rock creatures that we call gomes and that are living among us. They are secretive and hard to spot but if you know where to look and what to look out for then the world of gomes will open up to you.

Finnley McDougall's best friend Hadley is dying of gomebane poison. The secret cure was lost five hundred years ago when the Inca Empire collapsed. And unless he can control his emotions Finn will stiffen up and turn to stone. Dealing with school bullies and obnoxious popular girls was a lot easier than this. And to make things even worse, Wullie, his scruffy, rude, bad-tempered friend and protector is being hunted by the most evil gomes in Europe. Can Finn trust Varry Doo, the bog witch of Calanais, to help? Will he survive getting slathered with alpaca grease and soot, eating freeze-dried llama meat, and getting covered in condor vomit? If so he may need to crawl through the snow past decomposing sheep carcasses and an army of angry gomes to try to save the day. It won't be as easy as it sounds.