Bøger af Alan Lance Andersen

Welcome to Kingsbridge Academy, a school for young wizards and wizardesses, just one of a network of Magick schools around the world. Here, the students face the same challenges as any young person. Who will win the Pêlgwyddon match? When will that cute boy ask me out? Will a hideous monster jump out of my text book and try to eat me? How many times can one get detention cleaning out the Gryphon cage? Penny Miller, a Second Year, has her hands full. Her classes are harder this year, and she can barely keep up with her homework. Then she has to keep bullies like Ursula DeWinter, who has it in for Penny's best friend, at bay. She doesn't have time to figure out why spells are suddenly going completely bonkers, or what's up with the new student, or why Jack is being so weird whenever he sees her. And why is she being blamed for doing something she couldn't possibly have done? Unless she can be in two places at once. Can she? Suddenly she's losing friends faster than a Phoenix loses feathers. It's going to be a long year. Two short stories, previously seen in Wizard Academies anthologies, have been combined into this single volume for one enjoyable read.

Amantha le Pard, a young wizardess from London, transfers to the Sazerac School of Magick in New Orleans to be with her cousin Madelaine, who had been abducted by a wizardly serial kidnapper. Amantha encounters a rich, multicultural magick community with black, Creole, and Cajun influences, swamp monsters, and rival students from a gothic punk magick academy.A reign of terror grips the Sazerac. Hapless young wizards from prominent magickal families are being 'taken' and held for ransom. Where will the Whispering Mage strike next? Special Agent Malcombe Portière of the BSCI has a secret plan to defeat the evil menace - but can it work in time? And what can a young girl like Amantha possibly do to help?

The Mad Tea Party and Other Festival Skits offers schools and small theatre groups an opportunity to stage short humorous scripts that have been produced at Renaissance Faires and street festivals around Iowa and the Midwest. Alice in Wonderland was written for British readers in the 19th Century, and there are a number of things that modern Americans need to know if they are to capture the book's full wit and flavour. In The Mad Tea Party, author Lewis Carroll attempts to remedy the problem by inviting the fictional Alice and some of her mad friends from Wonderland to re-create the notorious tea party while he attempts to explain a few of his little inside jokes -- with unexpected results when his own characters don't exactly go along with the plan. Oliver's Birthday Picnic brings to the festival stage a number of beloved characters from the Golden Age of Comedy, including Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; Barcelona is an offbeat medieval adaptation of the old Vaudeville favorite "Slowly I Turned."