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Nothing ever happens in World's End Close. So when Stevie discovers a runaway girl in her coal shed, the first thing she does is fetch her best friend, Ray. Both are dying for a bit of adventure, and when the girl begs for help, they readily agree. Yet they soon realise they've taken on more than they bargained for. The girl, Anna, reveals she's on the run from people who are trying to poison her. Meanwhile, on the news, the Americans and Russians are arguing over missiles in Cuba. As the threat of war grows, Anna's behaviour becomes more mysterious.

Dieci anni dopo, in quel borgo ridotto a macerie, abitato solo dai tre ragazzi inselvatichiti da solitudine e priva-zioni, padre Julen de la Cruz fu catapultato lì senza un perché. Vent’anni prima, fu padre Cullighan, infatti, per via di quella tesi sull’imperatore Costantino, a chiedergli di fare ricerche. Padre Julen invece, partì missionario per l’Africa. Si scambiarono qualche lettera poi, una busta. Di là arrivava. Fuor del Vallo. Lo schizzo di un simbolo che conosceva bene.

The Time Hunters and the Wraith’s Revenge is the sixth book in The Time Hunters Saga. After a happy, uneventful year, Becky and Joe Mellor’s world is thrown into chaos when a masked psychopath, The Wraith, kidnaps various members of their family and friends. To their horror, he’s hidden them at different historical disasters in a diabolical game called "The Empedoclean Trials". With time running out, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy must solve the clues and rescue the "participants" before they become victims of the disasters themselves!

In the last years of the nineteenth century, a caravan of traders sets off from the high hills of Kumaon, India, for Tibet. They traverse dangerous passes and brave blinding snowstorms, in order to carry on their traditional trade in the Tibetan markets. Among them is fourteen-year-old Debu’s...

A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. But just one of the girls has a chance at survival. Arrested by the Gestapo, 'Verity' is given a choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. They’ll get the truth out of her. Only, it won’t be what they expect.

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and...

In 1592, Elizabethan England is a perilous place, rife with plague, civil unrest, highwaymen, violent animal sports, and Spanish plots against the queen. Hamnet Shakespeare, young son of renowned playwright William, buys an abandoned bear cub in the market. Hamnet names him Mummer, a traveling actor who mimes. Boy and Bear learn showmanship!

Apollo Salvatoir is a fun and fast-paced coming-of-age saga that follows the lives of two children as they discover their destinies. Apollo Enrico Salvatoir was born into a life of privilege and fame. A growing business empire leads his father to hand off responsibility for raising Apollo to strangers who may not have Apollo’s best interest at heart. Apollo’s friend, a girl named Ling, comes from a family that is obsessed with the Salvatoirs and has a mysterious past. These best friends find themselves abandoned in a foreign land that is not as safe as the one they grew up in.

This is a fully dramatized audio presentation - hear every individual character's voice, sense every sound effect, feel the drama with every beat of the musical score! 1880: The city of Philadelphia has been invaded by an army of faceless, alien machines. Burning everything in their path and abducting people by the hundreds, no one knows where they come from, or their ultimate plan. The fate of the city falls to one teen girl, Greer Walker, whose love of fantasy stories gives her an uncanny insight into the horde's true origin, and their shocking, fatal weakness.

Cymbeline Igloo is bored. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to do anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt. But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings’ childhood in World War II, he can’t know that it’s the beginning of something incredible and even dangerous.

Are you a fan of Stranger Things, Goonies, and The Explorers? If this is you, Small Town Kids will not disappoint. The first of several stories is about a small group of preteen friends determined to make their little town a better place…no matter where you’re from. If you like secret government conspiracies, rogue scientific groups, extraterrestrials, 1980s nostalgia, action/adventure, or science fiction, then this is for you. This is the first of several stories to come.

An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. So when Ming is thrust back in time to Belgium during WWI, only to be rescued from a burning cellar by Marie -- an...

Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea. 'Unputdownable storytelling. I loved it.' - Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's War In 1946...

Nell and Cave Bear are safe in the company of the animal-loving Sea Clan. But when the Woodland Clan begin causing trouble, the two friends are separated. This time, the Woodland hunters are determined not to return home empty-handed. Can Nell and Cave Bear escape the greatest danger yet?

Before he was commodore in the US Navy, before sailing for Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin, before he fought in the Revolutionary War and escaped from the redcoat prison, Joshua Barney was a boy. And he wanted to sail. Joshua began sailing at age 12 and worked his way to second mate of a cargo ship by age 15. When the first mate jumps ship and his captain dies, Joshua assumes command of a leaky ship and a headstrong crew. To prove to himself, his family, and the world that he was meant to be a sailor, Joshua has to save the ship, deliver his cargo, and unite his men.

From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family. In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family...

Amunet es una niña que vive en El Cairo con sus padres y su perrito Bisu. Una mañana cuando va a dar de comer a su cachorro, en vez de a su perrito se encuentra con un señor gordito y calvo con bigote que le dice: -Mi nombre es Bes, aunque tú y tu familia me llamáis Bisu. En realidad, no soy ningún perro, soy un dios menor que desde hace siglos tiene como misión proteger a los niños de todo mal. Me envía Isis la diosa egipcia, que necesita que la ayudes a proteger a su marido Osiris de una conspiración para matarle.

Thirteen-year-old Jacob Mandel has it all: a loving family and a nice home. But nothing prepared him for what happened when the Nazis took his entire family away to a concentration camp. Miraculously, he escapes and survives by clinging to the one thing that gives him hope: his faith. But when he falls into the hands of the Hitler Youth, he discovers they have a secret.... When the Edelweiss Pirates come across a death train packed with Jewish prisoners bound for a concentration camp, they do the unthinkable…but at what cost?

Christopher finally uncovers the Raven’s identity in this sixth novel of the award-winning Blackthorn Key series. The stakes are higher than ever when the Raven sets Christopher up for a horrible crime, leading him to be locked away in London’s most notorious prison. This terrible act is the...

THE MAGICAL CONCLUSION TO STELLA MONTGOMERY'S AWARD-WINNING STORY 'the perfect conclusion to a wonderfully quirky Victorian fantasy series' -- Pages & Pages Stella Montgomery is in disgrace. The Aunts have sent her to Wakestone Hall, a grim boarding school where the disobedient are tamed and the...