Lisa Thompson
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome, Sophie and Matt, to SWAT, the Secret World Adventure Team. We urgently need your help in Kenya, Africa. Your mission is to save the elephants in Tsavo National Park. They are being hunted and killed by poachers. You must leave at once".
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid-- until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face. Defiance had provoked Thompson to enter the male-dominated world of high-altitude mountaineering, but defiance could only take her so far. After a harrowing battle with cancer, Lisa realized she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jason and Anita are recruited by the Secret World Adventure Team for a mission in Tokyo, where they learn a great deal about Japanese culture while looking for the man they are supposed to help debug a new computer game.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Melody Bird is fascinated by the walled off "plague" house she discovered near the the graveyard, but she is even more fascinated by the mysterious boy, Hal, she finds living there in secret; he tells her he is a spy-in-training, a story that Melody's friends Matthew and Jake do not believe, and they set out to find out more-- and uncover a riddle even more confusing than Hal's spy story.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
77 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ari and Tess are recruited by the Secret World Adventure Team for a mission in New York City, where they visit many well-known sights while trying to win a contest that may save an amazing roof-top skateboarding park.