Simply the Quest

by Mary Evans

  And finally, all my love to my fabulous readers. I hope you enjoy this helping of Elliot and Virgo’s adventures – I’ll be back with more soon.

  Love, and other things that are dry-clean only,

  Maz

  xxx

  TRY ANOTHER GREAT BOOK FROM CHICKEN HOUSE

  BEETLE BOY by M. G. LEONARD

  Darkus can’t believe his eyes when a huge insect drops out of the trouser leg of his horrible new neighbour. It’s a giant beetle – and it seems to want to communicate.

  But how can a boy be friends with a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with the disappearance of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter, with her taste for creepy jewellery?

  ‘A darkly funny Dahl-esque adventure.’

  KATHERINE WOODFINE, AUTHOR

  ‘A wonderful book, full to the brim with very cool beetles!’

  THE GUARDIAN

  Paperback, ISBN 978-1-910002-70-4, £6.99 • ebook, ISBN 978-1-910002-98-8, £6.99

  TRY ANOTHER GREAT BOOK FROM CHICKEN HOUSE

  THE HALLOWEEDS by VERONICA COSSANTELI

  When Dan’s parents don’t make it back from a trip to the jungle, he, his sister Martha and baby Grub are packed off to crumbling Daundelyon Hall, where Great-Aunt Grusilla cares only about tending to her mysterious graveyard garden.

  But why are Grusilla and her curious servants each missing a finger? Has this something to do with the greedy ‘Cabbages’ in the greenhouse? And can Dan solve the mystery, keep his family together and hold on to all of his fingers?

  ‘A highly entertaining mix of mystery,

  adventure and gory detail.’

  S MAGAZINE (SUNDAY EXPRESS)

  ‘. . . a riot of a read.’

  WRD MAGAZINE

  Paperback, ISBN 978-1-910002-33-9, £6.99 • ebook, ISBN 978-1-910655-60-3, £6.99

  Published by Scholastic Australia

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  First edition published by Chicken House in 2017.

  This electronic edition published by Scholastic Australia Pty Limited, 2017.

  E-PUB eISBN: 978-1-76027-230-2

  Text © Mary Evans 2017.

  Cover and interior design by Helen Crawford-White

  Cover and interior illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, storage in an information retrieval system, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, unless specifically permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 as amended.