Gavin Abbott

After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. (imdb)

Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work'. Tilly only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and she's heartbroken to discover that he's betrothed to another. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine and puts her life in danger. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken - determined that all this will serve only to make her stronger...

Exploring a cavern, Stanley loses his friends but finds an old egg. He is excited when it hatches and a dragon comes out of it, but the authorities don't agree and put the dragon in the zoo. Stanley sets out to free his new discovery. (imdb)