Once Dax was taken to the school, my mind kept screaming "Harry Potter but with X-men" for a few chapters.

The denouement of this adventure is genuinely gripping, and instead of carrying on with my chores, I sat down to listen, not willing to miss any of the action. Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. But before long he begins to wonder who exactly is behind the school, and what they want from the pupils there. Overall, Finding the Fox may not have the most original premise out there, but it still managed to squeeze in some creativity, some fun, and great characters. See, despite the presence of supernatural elements, this is very much a laidback, slice of life kind of story.I would recommend it to anyone, especially anyone imaginative :) It is about children/teens who find themselves with unnatural powers and are then taken together at a boarding school to continue their lives while progressing these powers. Well the children were caught up in her presentation from the start and even some of the staff joined in without too much reluctance! Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. Like, ghosts, sprits and the afterlife are a regular feature to them and everyone else in the school - messages "from the other side" are passed to students all the time - so where does that leave the people with different faiths and religions there?

This doesn't go unnoticed by the British government and he is quickly whisked away to the middle of nowhere (I think it was Cornwall? Being a children's book the story is rather simple, with an obvious villain, but it contains many fun elements. Even for a series aimed at children there is a very interesting plot that develops over the 5 books and a lot of adult concepts like abuse, torture, and untrustworthy governments that makes this available to a more grown up audience. She might be able to talk to the dead but she doesn't appreciate them babbling away in her ear so I would just cackle away when writing her, plus I wanted something a bit more girl-led without being 'girly'.And I also have a soft spot for people turning into animals and very detailed descriptions of what it feels like it to be a fox.

Soon after (once Owen has explained and apologised) Dax is whisked away to Tregarren College [ citation needed] [2] to meet the other COLAs and become one of the students, the only Shapeshifter after the death of the wolf boy. The story is paced very nicely, so there's a good amount of action to keep things moving and not an awful lot of tedious exposition. The characters strike the perfect ballance between 'So now I'm a shapeshifter, but more importantly; what's for lunch? Ich habe es noch nie vorher gehört, der Duden kennt es nicht, es hat keinen Bezug zur Geschichte, kommt nur ein einziges Mal vor und dennoch hat der Übersetzer sich hierfür entschieden statt für das wesentlich geläufigere "todmüde". The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Reads like 'Harry Potter' (main male protagonist, secret school for children like himself, mysterious adult figures etc. He is surrounded by healers, claivoyants, illusionist and telekinetics, including a chocolate obsessed Gideon, who quickly become hos best friend. Unfortunately there is much less excitement and mystery, and the pupils are less engaging compared with the HP series. This book is in the list of things I’m definitely going to read to my future children and I’d recommend it to anyone - young and old - who love fantasy stories and magical schools.

He is offered a place at a secret government school where he can develop, and learn to control, his powers. The Shapeshifter books are all about COLA's - Children of Limitless Abilities - but all the books are written from Dax Jones' perspective.We mainly use Royal Mail Tracked 48 Service for goods which weight less then 2kg, all other goods will be delivered by a Courier. So the teachers from Hogwarts the school for special magical kids showed up to take Dax from his abusive step-family. I absolutely adored Ali Sparkes's Wishful Thinking, a book about a boy whose uneventful and "pathetic" existence is turned upside down when a Celtic Deity decides to "fix" his life.