Meet John - England's worst King. Notorious for his mean character, disgusting personal habits and fiery temper, he was loathed by everyone - including his own mother. There was nothing this right royal reprobate wouldn't stoop to in order to elbow his way to the English crown. Find out how it all started with this diary account of John's early life. This text is rich in vocabulary and will provide a page turning insight into the English King who put the 'evil' into medieval.

Ages 9 to 12 years When a boy and girl wake up within a stone circle, their minds are blank. They don't know where they are, where they're from or even who they are. Before these questions can be answered they find themselves about to be sacrificed by a Bronze Age tribe. Then the mysterious Foreseer arrives and saves them. He tells them that before they can return home to their own time, they have to steal an artefact from the vicious Beaker Tribe and restore the stone circle to its former glory. Will they succeed? Or will they be cast in Bronze forever?

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.

Age range 12 to 17 Captured by spymasters, a German teenager soon finds himself living a secret life within wartime London. Danger lurks everywhere, as he awaits his mission. When it comes, he discovers his very success could win the Great War for Germany. His mission takes him from bombed streets of London to the horrors of the Western Front. Can Agent Two-Face elude British intelligence and shells and shots, and turn the war in Germany's favour?

Age range 6 to 10 This gripping diary, written from the perspective of the young Alfred (with the help of his scribe Godric), will take readers through the major events in his action-packed childhood. Find out how Alfred became the last noble standing in this ripping royal read.