Which Witch? / The Secret of Platform 13 (Eva Ibbotson)

Which Witch? / The Secret of Platform 13

Eva Ibbotson

Blurb: Which Witch?
Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North, holds a competition to find an enchantress of the darkest powers to be his wife. Beautiful white witch Belladonna tries her best to cast fiendish spells - with outrageous results!

The Secret of Platform 13
Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to another world. Through it comes four of the most peculiar figures ever seen in the streets of London - on an extraordinary mission...

ISBN: 0330489089 (Paperback)

Year: 1979 / 1994

Publisher: Macmillan

Pages: 371 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Wikipedia page for the author

3. Wikipedia page for Which Witch?

4. Wikipedia page for The Secret at Platform 13

5. Buy from Amazon

The Gizmo - Gizmo #1 (Paul Jennings & Keith McEwan)

The Gizmo - Gizmo #1

Paul Jennings

Illustrated by Keith McEwan

Blurb: Stephen's bra is starting to slip.

His pantyhose are sagging.

His knickers keep falling down.

Oh, the shame of it.

He stole a gizmo - and now it's paying him back.

ISBN: 0140370900 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Publisher's page

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Goodreads page

5. Blog on the book

In The Lake of the Woods (Tim O'Brien)

In The Lake of the Woods

Tim O'Brien

Blurb: This remarkable new novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery. It begins in a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, where Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat. Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade's life, a life of deception and deceit - the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secrets.

ISBN: 0006543952 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Flamingo

Pages: 306 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page

2. Reading group guide for the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Goodreads page

5. PDF insight on the book

Phantom of the Auditorium - Goosebumps #24 (R.L. Stine)

Phantom of the Auditorium - Goosebumps #24

R.L. Stine

Blurb: Lights...curtain...phantom?

Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has been given the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke thinks Zeke's getting a little too into it.

But then really scary things start happening. A message appears on a piece of scenery: 'The Phantom Strikes!' A stage light comes crashing down.

Is someone trying to ruin the play?

Or is there really a phantom living under the stage?

ISBN: 0590483544 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Scholastic 

Pages: 126 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wiki page for the book

2. Blog on the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Goodreads page

5. IMDB for the TV adaption of the book

Disney's The Lion King (Gina Ingoglia)

Disney's The Lion King

Gina Ingoglia

Blurb: Simba's a young cub with a bright future. He's destined to take his father's place as the next lion king - a fact that doesn't please his uncle, Scar. With the help of the hyenas, Scar has a plan that will rid the Pride Lands of King Mufasa and Simba forever, leaving him in charge. But will the evil Scar succeed?

All the suspense and drama of Disney's animated film The Lion King are featured in this novelisation, complete with eight pages of full-color stills from the movie.

ISBN: 1562826336 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Disney Press

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy from Barnes and Noble

3. Wikipedia page for the film

4. IMDB page for the film

5. Site for the Broadway adaption

Go Eat Worms! - Goosebumps #21 (R.L. Stine)

Go Eat Worms! - Goosebumps #21

R.L. Stine

Blurb: They're creepy and they're crawly - they're totally disgusting!

Obsessed with worms? That's putting it mildly. Todd is so fascinated with worms, he keeps a worm farm in his basement! Most of all, Todd loves torturing his sister and her best friend with worms. Dropping them in their hair. Down their backs.

Until one day, after cutting a worm in half, Todd notices something strange. The rest of the worms seem to be staring at him! Suddenly worms start showing up in the worst places for Tott. In his bed. In his homework. Even in his spaghetti!

What's a worm lover to do when his own worms are starting to gross him out?

ISBN: 0590477439 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Scholastic 

Pages: 119 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Wiki on the book

3. Blog on the book

4. IMDB page for the TV adaption of the story

5. Buy from Amazon