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Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.
From the Hardcover edition.
The first marvellous murder-mystery in the bestselling Murder Most
Unladylike series!
'Ripping good fun' The Times
'Plotting is what sets this book apart; this is about who was where at
the time of the murder, and it's about finding the chink in the alibi'
Telegraph
At Deapdean School for Girls, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have set up
their own detective agency. But they are struggling to find any real
crimes to investigate...
(Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.)
Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the
Gym.
To add to the mystery, when she and Daisy return five minutes later,
the body has disappeared.
Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove
one happened in the first place.
Determined to get to the bottom of the crime before the killer strikes
again Hazel and Daisy must hunt for evidence, spy on their suspects and
use all the cunning and intuition they can muster.
But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
'A skilful blend of golden era crime novel and boarding school romp . .
. The novel works both as an affectionate satire and an effective
murder mystery, and Stevens can go places Enid Blyton never dreamt of .
. . Top class' Financial Times
From No. 1 bestselling children's author David Walliams comes his
biggest and most epic adventure! Illustrated by the artistic genius
Tony Ross. This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a
10,000-year-old mammoth... Read all about it! Read all about it!
ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC! When Elsie, an orphan on the streets
of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a
woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to
discover more... A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with
the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime - from London
to the heart of the Arctic! Heroes come in all different shapes and
sizes in David Walliams' biggest and most epic adventure yet!
Contains 5 CDs.
"Powerful storytelling and immersive art." --Kirkus Reviews
(starred review) "Vibrant writing and magical realism lift this
story to one of triumph." --Publishers Weekly "Nolen's lively prose
style recalls the richness of the oral tradition in this tale of
triumphant courage and abiding hope." --The Horn Book "A moving
choice for children's collections." --Booklist A Parents' Choice
Silver Award Recipient In this inspiring story in the tradition of
American black folktales, an enslaved brother and sister are
inspired by a majestic and mysterious bird to escape to freedom in
this dramatic and unforgettable picture book. There was nothing
civil about that war. They should have called it what it was: a
big, bad war. Brother and sister Millicent and John are slaves on
Simon Plenty's plantation and have suffered one hurt and heartbreak
after another. Their parents had told them old tales of how their
ancestors had flown away to freedom just as free and easy as a
bird. Millicent and John hold these stories in their hearts long
after their parents are gone. "Maybe such a time will come for
you," their parents said. Then one day a mysterious bird appears in
their lives. The bird transforms them and gives them the courage to
set their plan into motion and escape to freedom.
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Winnie's Great War
(Paperback)
Lindsay Mattick, Josh Greenhut; Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
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Adventure thriller set in Renaissance Italy starring Leonardo da
Vinci as a young apprentice who witnesses a murder and becomes
involved in a plot to take over the city. LEONARDO AND THE DEATH
MACHINE is first and foremost a thriller, set against the
background of Renaissance Italy. However, the Leonardo of the title
is in fact Leonardo da Vinci. This is a totally fictional
adventure, but it COULD have happened. When we first meet Leonardo
we find him apprenticed to a successful artist in Florence. But
although he yearns to be a great artist himself, he's rather
disillusioned with his apprenticeship, which has made him more of
an errand boy than an art student. Then, when an impromptu street
football match ends in an arm injury for his friend Sandro (whom
history will know as Botticelli), Leonardo leaps at the opportunity
to help out the unfortunate painter who has been commissioned to
paint a portrait for the rich Medici family. Little does our young
hero know that soon he will be dragged into murder and intrigue,
and will be fleeing for his life!
Alva rushes through the trees in the dead of night with her sniffer
wolf, Fen. Being out alone when there's a kidnapper on the loose is
reckless, but if she ever wants to be an investigator like her
Uncle Magnus, she'll need to be first to the crime scene. But what
Alva discovers raises more questions than it answers, drawing her
into a dangerous search for truth, and for treasure.
To hell, then home again--one boy's story of the evacuation at
Dunkirk during World War II "We're nearer hell than home now
Charlie," the great man said, as we looked to the huge pillars of
smoke, that spiraled above the beaches. We were there to save the
soldiers; little did I know that soon I would need rescuing myself
from the Demons of Dunkirk. Charlie's mother and father work at a
Spitfire factory in the fishing port of Hamble. After a run-in with
a brutal instructor on the naval training ship Mercury, the
teenager finds himself on the run from the British navy. His father
hooks him up with William--the Captain of a fishing boat called the
White Feather. A few days later, the pair find themselves caught up
in the most heroic retreat of World War II--the Dunkirk evacuation.
'[Selznick is] a postmodern hero of middle-grade children's
fiction... Those who revel in puzzles, philosophical conundrums and
musings on transience, time and grief will adore this challenging
read' The Times 'The most perfect feat of storytelling' Scott
Evans, The Reader Teacher 'It has touched me in a way I can't
express... Breath-taking' Ceridwen Eccles, primary teacher and
blogger at Teacher Glitter A ship. A garden. A library. In
Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of
two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and
dreams. At the centre of their relationship is a mystery about the
nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader.
Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling that illuminates how even
the wildest tales can help us in the hardest times. Brian
Selznick's first book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, was the winner
of the esteemed Caldecott Medal, the first novel to do so, as the
Caldecott Medal is for picture books Released as a live-action film
Hugo in 2011, directed by Martin Scorsase and starring Asa
Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard
Griffiths, Ray Winstone, and Christopher Lee. Brian Selznick's
second book, Wonderstruck, was also made into a feature film,
starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams
Nathan Hale tackles a topic fans have been asking about for years:
World War II. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A
new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for
the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested
for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American
history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.
Once at sea, they were told their mission was a retaliation strike
against targets in Tokyo. But on the day of the raid, a Japanese
patrol boat spotted them and they had to launch early, with barely
enough fuel to get them past their target. After the bombing, some
pilots crashed, some were captured, and many ended up in mainland
China and were carried to safety by Chinese villagers, being hunted
by Japanese forces all the while. With tales of high-flying action
and bravery, Raid of No Return is a story of heartbreak and
survival during wartime.
A swashbuckling thriller, part three of THE HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES,
set on the oceans at the turn of the nineteenth century - drama,
horror, adventure... "There's pirates in the West Indies.
Cannibals. They cook you alive. They shrink your head to the size
of a walnut," says Mr Spencer to his son. These words will haunt
sixteen-year-old John Spencer as he embarks on his first voyage to
foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his
Dragon crew set off from London for waters few of them have sailed
before. When they come upon a lifeboat adrift at sea, some are wary
of the sailor aboard. His name is Horn, and something about this
imposing and mysterious sailor isn't right. He carries a chest full
of clinking glass, and his story doesn't quite make sense. Still,
John respects the stranger's awe-inspiring seamanship. With Horn on
deck, both John and the ship's captain believe the Dragon is in the
best of hands. But is Horn to be trusted? The answers become more
and more complicated as the Dragon encounters a very real - and
very dangerous - pirate ship. Now John starts to believe his
father's warnings, especially after he becomes separated from his
shipmates and is stranded on an island reputed to conceal buried
treasure. A place teeming with buccaneers... Brimming with furious
high-seas adventure, this companion to The Wreckers and The
Smugglers concludes with a bloodcurdling tale of pirates - and a
surprise ending...
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis
at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the
Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror
that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks
Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners
have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita
becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest
chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage
and hope.
A rip-roaring Roman mystery from Historical Association Young
Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. PRAISE FOR BLACK POWDER
- WINNER OF THE HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD: ' ... a
wonderfully explosive adventure set in the turbulent year of the
gunpowder plot in Black Powder with impossibly divided loyalties.'
JULIA GOLDING, AUTHOR OF THE DIAMOND OF DRURY LANE 'With its
constant reversals and twists and turns, Tom's story is almost as
complex as the pliot and counter-plot of the Gunpowder Treason
itself ... The writing is lively and the pace never flags.'
HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but
as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium, her fate is sealed:
marriage and children. Then her father is murdered, her mother and
brother disappear, and Vita flees from a shadowy enemy. Disguised
as a slave at the gladiator's arena, she forges an unlikely bond
with Brea, a native Briton gladiatrix - and her wolf. Together,
they resolve to discover and bring the killer to justice before
Vita's identity is revealed ... A rip-roaring adventure set in
Roman London from the rising queen of middle-grade historical
fiction, Ally Sherrick Vita, nicknamed 'Little Owl' by her father,
is an unlikely hero - but when her father is murdered she has to
uncover the truth, even if it means finding unlikely friends Themes
of deceit, storytelling and fighting justice
Someone will take their final bow . . .
Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting.
But the Detective Society is never far away from danger, and it's clear there's trouble afoot at the Rue.
Jealousy, threats and horrible pranks quickly spiral out of control - and then a body is found.
Now Hazel and Daisy must take centre stage and solve the crime . . . before the murderer strikes again.
In this Newbery Honor Book, a thirteen-year-old boy struggles to
survive on his own in the wilderness of eighteenth-century Maine.
When Matt's father leaves him on his own to guard their new cabin
in the wilderness, Matt is scared but determined to be brave and
prove that he can take care of himself. And things are going fine
until a white stranger steals his gun, leaving Matt defenseless and
unable to hunt for his food. Then Matt meets Attean, a Native boy
from the Beaver tribe, and soon learns that people called the land
around him home long before the white settlers ever arrived. As
Attean teaches him more about his own culture, Matt must come to
terms with what the changing frontier really means. Now with an
introduction by critically acclaimed writer Joseph Bruchac about
the historical context and the relationships between Native peoples
and white settlers in the eighteenth century.
Ten-year-old HÃ has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of
its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her
family and friends close by. But when the Vietnam War reaches the
gates of her home, HÃ and her family are forced to flee. The
journey onboard a refugee ship bound for America is hard - but
nothing can prepare HÃ for the strangeness of the country
that greets them on the other side. The language is impossible, the
food is strange - and not all the locals are friendly. But amongst
her struggles, HÃ finds joy, friendship - and most of all,
the power of hope, love and family.
It is 1799. John Spencer is fourteen when his father?s ship, the ill-fated Isle of Skye, is shipwrecked on the coast of Cornwall as she makes for her home port. John survives the disaster, but soon learns to his horror that the villagers are not rescuers but wreckers ? pirates who lure ships ashore in order to plunder their cargo? When John discovers that his father is alive but being held prisoner, he must try and rescue him ? without knowing who can be trusted to help.
Dorset, 1625: Alice knows she shouldn't be here. She has been
careful, watchful, deceitful even, to get to this point. But now
the time has come, her heart is pounding with the enormity of her
plan ... Alice Edwards is on her own and fighting for all that she
holds dear. In a time of deadly plague, hope lies in herbs and
remedies. But sickness is not the only danger. Who is the
mysterious child who has fallen under her care? And how can Alice
tell friend from foe when the shadow of a murder is haunting her
steps - and heartache awaits at every turn? A gripping and
authentic debut from a new voice in historical drama
Sequel to Raider's Tide. The continuation of Beatrice and Robert's
story, historical drama set in 16th Century border country. In
Raider's Tide, Beatrice, a sixteen-year-old English girl, saves
Robert - a - Scot from death. She has risked her own life, by
helping the enemy but in turn is rescued by John, the local pastor.
After nearly drowning, and with Robert gone, Beatrice finds it
difficult to settle back into everyday life. She starts to learn
healing with the Cockleshell Man but is too distraught to
concentrate well. A quarrel with her father results in her leaving
home to stay at the Parsonage out father's way. There, her
relationship with John deepens and they become betrothed. Meanwhile
several captured Scots are imprisoned in the infamous dungeons of
Lancaster Castle. Robert is among them - he did not make it across
the border. The prisoners are almost certain to be hanged after
their trials at the Lent Assizes. Beatrice makes repeated attempts
to free him, but nothing works and Robert is condemned to die. In
desperation Beatrice plots with some travelling players to rescue
Robert and in doing so, she jeopardises her relationship with John
and narrowly escapes being thrown into jail herself. In saving
Robert, Beatrice has become a fugitive from the law herself... and
Scotland is the only place she can go.
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