What would you do if you held the secrets of the world in your hands? Calyx Fox is sixteen years old, and already specialises in languages and Medieval History. However, her father ensures she gets an opportunity of a life time, and one that seems impossible - attempt to translate the most mysterious manuscript in the world: the Voynich Manuscript. With her best friend Maia and twin sister Drake in her entourage, Calyx begins to work. But the more she works and succeeds, the more things get scary....... The Voynich Manuscript is a real-life codex (comes from the Latin caudex, which means block of wood) that has yet proven difficult to translate. This story is also an IB assignment: the Creative aspect for CAS! Please vote and comment - you may never know that you help me pass my IB! Enjoy!

"Fire is the element of power. It is the element of anger, the element of passion. It has the power to destroy, yes, but what many have overlooked is that it also has the power to create. This is who you are, and if you don't control yourself, how are you supposed to control your powers?" Between August 1996 and August 1997, secret and illegal experiments were conducted on 120 baby girls and boys in Holland, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Italy, France and Spain. However, only 12 of these children survived the process. This is the story of Valyn Enya Mesman. She was born with ability to control, manipulate and create fire and lightning, the cold-blooded fire. She grows up in the small, quiet town of Limburg in Holland as the daughter of a Vlaae maker and a clock-maker/clock shop owner. Although getting good grades, she is the school's resident Bad Girl; she is considered a pyromaniac and a manipulative witch. However, Valyn knows that sometimes the things she did was not her fault. But when a man in black with a British accent takes her parents and then in turn attempts to kidnap her, Valyn's life takes a turn for the scary. She's saved by two Irish accented strangers dressed in black leather and taken to Britain, where she meets 10 others like the strangers, who tell Valyn that her attempted kidnapping was only the beginning and that it's up to her to find the other 11 Kinetics and take down the people that took Valyn's parents and are after their blood. Her creators. (This book contains Dutch, German, Spanish and some Russian words that I know; also cultural references that I know or learned or have relearned!)

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 6 years ago a new law came into play in the United Kingdom: a law created with the intention of keeping control over the population, but left citizens living powerless in fear as the country started falling apart. Zoey Hart refused to crumble along with it, and her days were consumed with protecting the ones she loved from this horrific world. But then Zoey made a startling discovery - one that changed everything.