Most Popular Books by Susan Price

Wandering the grim battlefield, Brother Dominic is overjoyed to hear a voice, calling him. Perhaps there is one more poor soul left alive in all this devastation. He hurries to aid the injured warrior, prepared to do all he can to keep this last survivor in the land of the living. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds... From warrior-bard to disembodied head in one sweep of a sword-just what is keeping Egil the storyteller alive? And what exactly is he planning?

Kveldulf Witch is a promise-breaking killer. He is not a good man to deal with. When Kveldulf''s raven tells him that the Queen of Ultima-Thule is searching for a husband, Kveldulf decides that he will be the man the queen marries. He is certain the Queen will fall in love with him when she hears of the many battles he has fought in. He orders the best story-teller in Iceland to make his story and tell it before the Queen. But the story-teller, Thord Cat, refuses. Kveldulf is furious. In revenge, he makes and unleashes a terrifying monster... Set in the Iceland of the Viking Age and originally published by A&C Black, this is an exciting story for ages 8-10, written by award-winning author Susan Price, who also wrote the best-selling ''The Wolf''s Footprint.''

All life is sorrowful, but very, very sweet. Ice apples and firelight. Wolves, darkness and the road to the Ghost World. Ghost Spell, the fourth haunting book in the Ghost World Sequence. Under a freezing arctic sky, a wolf carries a dying baby to a village door. The villagers adopt him, naming him Vulchanok, ''Little Wolf.'' He grows to be a happy child but, by night, the wolf enters his dreams. She leads him to the Ghost World and makes him a shaman. The villagers begin to fear him. Vulchanok becomes a lonely man. By night he looks for visions in a spinning ice-apple. He sees a beautiful, red-headed girl who is also alone. Taking up his goshawk skin, he flies to her window. Hundreds of miles away, the penniless orphans, Glev and Kristiana, live in the Czar''s palace. Every day Glev searches for a nobleman to marry his sister and make them both rich while Kristiana remains alone in their room. A noblewoman must not be seen in public. Kristiana comes to love Vulchanok but to be with him she must shame and dishonour both herself and her brother. She must learn to work, though she has never lifted anything heavier than the page of a book. Can the love between Kristiana and Vulchanok survive Glev''s anger and Vulchanok''s enemies? If you enjoyed the Carnegie medal winning The Ghost Drum, then you''ll enjoy this story of ice, firelight, love and revenge.

An enthralling story for younger readers, from double award winning author, Susan Price. A bad summer, and the crops didn''t grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People search desperately for the last of the nettles and acorns. Elka and her little brother Daw huddle under their blankets, trying to keep warm. Elka is too hungry to sleep. Awake in the dark, she overhears her parents whispering. "I don''t want to watch them starve. Take them into the wood and leave them. Take them far in, so they won''t find their way back, and leave them." The next day their father takes them into the wood, to look for mushrooms. Daw goes along innocently, holding his father''s hand. Elka follows because she doesn''t want Daw to be alone. The light fades. Their father vanishes into the darkness among the trees. He doesn''t come back. And then come the wolves... Where do these lost children belong - in the village with the people who left them to starve? Or, in the wood, with the wolves? REVIEWS ''No one writes this kind of dark tale better than Price... brilliantly reworks folk themes... an atmospheric and poignant story. Not a word is wasted.'' Books For Keeps. ''This is a powerful piece of writing - a folk tale where difficult issues are confronted, no compromises allowed and no happy ending guaranteed. There''s no escaping the anger of the little girl who decides to leave the world of her parents and remain with the pack of wolves who looked after her - nor the loneliness of the brother who pines for her at the edge of the forest. This is a classic.'' Carousel. Because of the continued demand for this book from schools and parents, it has been republished by the author, with new illustrations by Andrew Price. Susan Price is an acclaimed, prize-winning author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1987 with Ghost Drum and the 1998 Guardian Children''s Fiction Award for The Sterkarm Handshake. She wrote her first book aged 16 and became a full time writer aged 22. She now has over twenty children''s novels to her name and has been described as ''one of the best contemporary writers for children'' by Susan Hill in the Daily Telegraph.

The Time Tube has opened again between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, and a wedding is arranged between the Sterkarms and the Grannams, catching Andrea up in the disastrous consequences.

Harken! This is the saga of Aslak Ottarssen, born a slave. Aslak, and his beloved sister, Astrid, are the children of a Norwegian farmer. Their mother was an English slave. Their father chooses to free Aslak. But Astrid remains a slave. Aslak promises that he will buy her freedom when he is a man and can earn enough silver. At fifteen, he goes viking to earn his fortune. Returning from sea, he finds that his father has died. Worse: his step-brothers have sold his sister. Furious, Aslak leaves his home forever, and calls on his ship-brothers to help him find and free his sister. He pursues Astrid across the North: a violent and dangerous place in the Viking Age. His hot temper leads to him being sold into slavery himself, in Jorvik, capital of England''s Danelaw. But, captive among strangers, he finds unexpected help, faces death, sees a ghost - and meets still more danger. Can Aslak regain his own freedom and rescue his lost sister?

"I choose the slain!" A pagan king lies dying. With his last words, he leaves his kingdom to his son, Elfgift. But Elfgift is a bastard and a half-thing: the king''s son by a beautiful elf-woman. The king has other sons, legitimate sons by his saintly Christian queen. Those sons have no intention of seeing their kingdom ruled by a pagan elf''s get. They send armed men to murder Elfgift and burn his farmstead. They think themselves rid of their troublesome half-brother. But Elfgift is not alone. He has a powerful ally: the Battle-woman, Jarnseaxa. She fetches Elfgift out of this world and teaches him to fight for his life and his crown.

Linnet is a storyteller who makes an unusual and gruesome request - that his head be cut off and given to his children. As the children set off to carry the head to their grandmother''s house the head opens its eyes and begins to tell its stories...

Discusses a series of questions about Connecticut divorce statistics.

Discusses contractors providing non-emergency medical transportation to Medicaid recipients, specifically how much this service costs the state; how many people have been served; and which nursing homes the brokers have contacted to publicize their services.

Discusses whether there were any senior transportation programs for residents of Union, Connecticut.

Provides caseload and staffing level statistics for Connecticut''s 14 juvenile courts.

Discusses new laws affecting crime and public safety enacted during the 2012 regular and June and Dec. 12 special sessions.

Explains federal and state laws regulating law enforcement agencies'' collection of DNA samples and how a proposed bill to expand the USA Patriot Act might affect them.

Discusses a series of questions about child custody.

Discusses if New Yorkers were moving to the Torrington area to take advantage of higher welfare benefits there.

Discusses the use of telemedicine and telehealth to deliver health care services.

Analyzes recent Superior Court decision regarding finders'' fees and summarizes current law.

Discusses the small, gender-specific therapeutic group homes, housing four to six children and youth with complex behavioral health and other needs who need clinical and other support services to transition to family settings or independent living, which the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) contracts out.

Discusses a bill currently before the New York Assembly''s Committee on Codes making criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds a felony punishable by imprisonment for three to seven years.

Discusses the Carnivore computer program that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to intercept e-mails or other electronic communications to or from people who are the target of an investigation and whether states use it.

Discusses the legal standard for acquitting a defendant of criminal charges based on mental illness.

Discusses what other states are doing to address the shortage of long-term care workers, such as nurses, nurse''s aides, and other direct care workers serving the elderly or disabled.

Discusses information private employers are currently required to provide to the Connecticut Department of Labor.

Discusses whether other states have restricted marriage licenses to people lawfully present in the United States, whether such a law would infringe on a person''s fundamental right to marry and if the federal preemption doctrine would be applicable.

Summarizes the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional a California law that revived prosecutions for child sexual abuse crimes after a prior statute of limitations had expired.

Discusses criminal background checks and rules concerning hiring convicted felons.

Compares California''s domestic partner registry law and PA 02-105, the Connecticut law permitting adults to designate other adults to act on their behalf in certain situations.

Discusses measures Connecticut and other states are taking to screen home health aides for criminal records.