How to hatch a phoenix egg in four easy steps . . .

Take four ordinary children . . . A genie in the shape of a bookworm . . . A clever, but very scatty, ancient phoenix . . . And a magical treasure map.

Then get ready for more adventure and mayhem than you could ever wish for!

Join the Worthington gang on their journey across the world, back into the past and forward to the future. With magic in their lives again, they face danger, mystery and the unexpected at every turn!

Another spellbinding adventure from bestselling authors Steve Cole and Linda Chapman.

Linda Chapmanwas born in 1969. Before before becoming a full-time writer in 1999, she had many jobs including being a teacher, stage manager, book-seller, university researcher and dog trainer. She has written over seventy books for children including theMy Secret Unicorn, StardustandNot Quite a Mermaidseries. Linda lives in a village in Leicestershire with her family and two Bernese Mountain dogs. When she is not writing she spends her time looking afer her two young daughters, reading, putting on plays and horse riding.

Born in 1971,Steve Colespent a happy childhood in rural Bedfordshire being loud and aspiring to amuse. He liked books, and so went to the University of East Anglia to read more of them. Later on he started writing them too, with titles ranging from pre-school poetry to Young Adult thrillers (with more TV and film tie-ins than he cares to admit to along the way). In other careers he has been the editor ofNoddymagazine, and an editor of fiction and nonfiction book titles for various publishers. He is the author of the hugely successfulAstrosaurs,Cows in Action,Astrosaurs AcademyandSlime Squadseries.