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H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) is a top-secret school of applied villainy where children with a precocious gift for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents into criminal mastermind. After all, ‘villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes'. One small catch is that the children cannot leave until training is complete, six years later. With villainy comes a certain freedom of thought, and every year one student in particular will show exceptional talent - after all, it takes the best to produce the worst. This year there are two students: Otto Malpense and his new friend Wing Fanchu are both exceptionally bad, and they are definitely not keen on being held against their will for six long years . . .
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Mark WaldenEAN: 9781408815908COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 258 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCDATE PUBLISHED: 2011-08-01CITY: GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Animals / Mythical CreaturesWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
'A comedy thriller, full of baddies, action and lashings of humour', 'An exhuberant Dahl-esque escapade', 'Exciting, clever and all in all brilliant'
Mark Walden's first book, H.I.V.E., won Richard and Judy's ‘Best Kids' Books Ever' 9+ category. Paramount has optioned the film rights, and it was chosen as one of ten titles for Booktrust's first Booked Up scheme. Mark has followed this success with five further titles in the extraordinarily brilliant H.I.V.E. series and as a WBD author for 2009. He lives with his family in Hampshire.
H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) is a top-secret school of applied villainy where children with a precocious gift for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents into criminal mastermind. After all, ‘villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes'. One small catch is that the children cannot leave until training is complete, six years later. With villainy comes a certain freedom of thought, and every year one student in particular will show exceptional talent - after all, it takes the best to produce the worst. This year there are two students: Otto Malpense and his new friend Wing Fanchu are both exceptionally bad, and they are definitely not keen on being held against their will for six long years . . .
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Mark WaldenEAN: 9781408815908COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 258 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCDATE PUBLISHED: 2011-08-01CITY: GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Animals / Mythical CreaturesWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Mark Walden's first book, H.I.V.E., won Richard and Judy's ‘Best Kids' Books Ever' 9+ category. Paramount has optioned the film rights, and it was chosen as one of ten titles for Booktrust's first Booked Up scheme. Mark has followed this success with five further titles in the extraordinarily brilliant H.I.V.E. series and as a WBD author for 2009. He lives with his family in Hampshire.
