Showing results by narrator "Isobelle Carmody" in Teen & Young Adult

The highly anticipated dramatic conclusion to the much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles from award-winning and best-selling author Isobelle Carmody. Before Elspeth Gordie can continue her journey to find Sentinel and prevent it unleashing the horrors of the Great White, she must fight free of a strange prison where people are laid to sleep forever or cling to a suffocating existence, believing the world beyond their walls is already utterly annihilated.

The second instalment in the best-selling Obernewtyn series. Since their takeover of Obernewtyn, the secret community of Misfits has flourished, protected by their remoteness. Led by Elspeth Gordie, whose extraordinary powers set her apart even among her Misfit friends, an expedition sets out to rescue a powerful Misfit in a distant part of the Land. Only she knows the enormity of their task.

Darkfall marks the beginning of a stunning trilogy from one of Australia's leading writers of fantasy. After the death of her parents and her beloved instructor, Wind, Glynn devotes herself to the care of her sick twin sister, feeling her own life to be unimportant. One night, during a midnight swim, she is swept across the Void to the troubled watery world of Keltor, through a portal created to summon the mythical Unraveller. What is the mysterious connection between Glynn's world and Keltor? And why does the man who rescued her from the waves bear an eerie resemblance to Wind?

After crossing to the troubled world of Keltor, Ember learns that her twin sister also crossed and is in great danger. She must find Glynn and warn her before it is too late.

Will Helloran is 16 years old and lives with his father in the Canberra dome complex that protects its inhabitants from the corrosive atmosphere outside. At night his dreams are haunted by his beloved uncle Adam, who unexpectedly died in his sleep almost a year ago. As the nightmares grow increasingly disturbing, Will comes to believe that his uncle's death may have been suspicious – and he begins investigating.

Perchance to Dream is an origin story to Isobelle Carmody's new book, Comes The Night, and tells the story of Anna whose estate set up and operates the Sleep Research Institute, and introduces the compelling Nicholas. The story was first published in the multi-award-winning collection Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann and published in 2008 by Harper Collins. Having written the story, Isobelle could never put the work she had created to bed. The dreamscape beckoned and led her to write Comes the Night.

One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother’s death, Jack enters a land devoid of color or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolvers find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only the cats know.

The exciting second book in Isobelle Carmody's award-winning Kingdom of the Lost series for children. Adventure and danger follow Bily, Zluty, Redwing, and the monster as they cross a barren desert and journey over high stony mountains in search of a place where they can make a new home. But will the secret they uncover in the Cloud Mountains be the end of them all?