Meet Melanie Beeby! Mel is a trainee time-travelling angel. She's feisty, witty, streetwise and...dead! New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! Melanie Beeby, just thirteen, has been permanently removed from the late 20th Century by a speeding joy rider. She is elevated to another place, where she attends the Angel Academy. When she is asked to join an elite trouble-shooting group, Angels Unlimited, she is sent on a trial mission to London during the Blitz to help save another young person. Mel breaks the only rule -- she materialises to a human -- yet still manages to come out top of the class! She is given her angel name -- Helix -- and comes up with her perfect teen outfit. 'To me this look says committed, it says now, it says ready for action. I mean, I'm an angel, so I should look divine, right?' Hilarious, fast-moving, other-worldly adventure!

Winging It

Dalton, Annie

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Mel is a trainee time-travelling angel. She's feisty, witty, streetwise and...dead! For her latest cosmic adventure, it's back to the future...New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! Past perfect, future tense...Even angels need to chill out and Melanie's been looking forward to Lola's birthday beach party for weeks. So she's not impressed when Michael volunteers her and her angel mates for a medieval field trip. But when they get there, they stumble upon a time scam which could have serious repercussions for the Agency. They track the culprits back to their school in the twenty-third century -- only to find that the kids are being monitored for sinister Opposition purposes. Can Mel change something which hasn't even happened yet? Angels must have their limits...

Flying High (Mel Beeby, Agent Angel)

Collins

Mel's latest challenge is in Ancient Rome, keeping an eye on a young girl gladiator! New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! After a hush-hush trip to Ancient Rome, Orlando is clearly disturbed by what he's seen, so when he decides to go back, with a team of volunteers, Mel loyally signs up. It looks as if this will be the mission of her dreams, but in the cruel, decadent world of Nero's Roman Empire, her fantasies crumble. Who is the mysterious girl gladiator Orlando seems to be trying so hard to protect? How did he come to meet her? Is his concern purely professional, or is it something more?

Fighting Fit (Mel Beeby, Agent Angel)

Angels Unlimited (7) - Making Waves

Mel Beeby's eighth adventure takes her to medieval Japan, searching for a lost soul. Mel and Reuben have been studying Soul Retrieval, running through all manner of challenging scenarios in virtual reality, in order to learn the specialised skills necessary to rescue human souls. The two angels are sent to Japan, to try and re-unite a young girl's soul with her body, as she lies in a coma. It isn't her time to die. In their quest for the soul, Mel and Reuben have to enter a realm that's magical and exquisite, like an idealised Japanese fairy-tale dream. Feudal lords, fabulous magical castles, ninjas, wandering monks, waterfalls, demons and shapeshifters. But like all dreams, it has its dark side, and the Japanese afterlife has some extremely scary aspects. Mel and Reuben must stick together...and at the end, there is even a little hint of romance for our two angel buddies!

Budding Star

Teen & Young Adult

Harper Collins Childs

The first title in a sparkling new series for younger readers, from the creator and author of Angels Unlimited.Lilac Peabody is as small and shimmery as a dragon-fly – a little extraterrestrial busybody, who is a friend to all children who need her. Lilac Peabody empowers children to solve their own problems and then disappears once they have achieved their aims.This is the first of four short novels which all follow the same group of children within a school environment. Each novel centres on one of the children but it is Lilac’s continuing presence that is the all-important link between the four children. It is to Lilac, that the children reveal their true vulnerable selves.In the first novel, Sam Sparks is the new kid in school. He’s lonely and miserable and it’s his birthday soon but he has no friends to invite. Enter Lilac, who persuades him to invide a forlorn little waif of a girl – Bella Bright – to his party. Imagine Sam’s surprise when this kind act leads to a whole circus entertaining him on his birthday. The girl is a traveller from a circus family… Lilac has enabled him to have more than he has ever had in his life. Meanwhile Lilac moves on to help the next child…Annie Dalton has created this wonderful character for younger readers, very much in the mould of Melanie Beeby from Angels Unlimited though Lilac is no angel!

Lilac Peabody and Sam Sparks

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

The third title in this sparkling new series for younger readers, from the creator of Angels Unlimited.Lilac Peabody is a small and shimmery little alien being who flits around helping children and tackles any challenge presented. Sometimes she’s an intergalactic party-planner, at others a cosmic beachcomber. But always a friend to any child that needs her. Lilac Peabody empowers children to solve their own problems and then disappears once they have achieved their aims.This is the third of four short novels which all follow the same group of children within a school environment. Each novel centres on one of the children but it is Lilac’s continuing presence that is the all-important link between the four children. It is to Lilac that the children reveal their true vulnerable selves.Charlie Chase is a joker. He is a popular, confident boy but… he has a shameful secret. He can hardly read. He would much rather play football, computer games, or make everyone laugh, all the things that come easily to him. He is Lilac’s biggest challenge so far, but she and Charlie win through in the end.

Lilac Peabody and Charlie Chase (Roaring Good Reads)

The fourth book in this series for younger readers sparkles like its star, Lilac Peabody. As small, quick and shimmery as a dragonfly, Lilac is a friend indeed to all children in need – empowering them to solve their own problems and then disappearing as soon as she is no longer required.
Lilac Peabody is a small and shimmery little alien being who flits around helping children and tackles any challenge presented. Sometimes she’s an intergalactic party-planner, at others a cosmic beachcomber – but always a friend to any child that needs her. Lilac Peabody empowers children to solve their own problems and then disappears once they have achieved their aims.
Honey Hope is a bully. She teases and taunts, sniggers and sneers. But why is she so mean? What lies behind her unappealing behaviour? Lilac attaches herself to Honeysuckle to find out and, as with the other children, Honey is all the better for it. This story ends with a party, and for the first time all four children from the book series discover their common friendship with Lilac Peabody… but by this time, Lilac has moved on!

Lilac Peabody and Honeysuckle Hope (Roaring Good Reads)

Action & Adventure

The Heavenly Collection (Angels Unlimited)

Historical Fiction

Mel Beeby's 10th adventure finds the funkiest angel in heaven on a mission to find Cleopatra and help a slave girl. As she travels to ancient Egypt to help an orphan girl carry a priceless perfume to Queen Cleopatra, she must watch her every step. Her emotions are running wild after a recent angel upgrade, and her inner agent is falling silent as she faces "the Test." It all makes Mel a sitting target for the Powers of Darkness in this brilliant new Agent Angel adventure!

Going for Gold: Mission: Save Cleopatra! (Mel Beeby Agent Angel)

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

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