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The Enchanted House Chronicles: Sisters, Secrets and Sorcery is a laugh-out-loud tale of adventure and magic, focusing on the lives of three sisters during the Second World War. It is the first novel in ‘The Enchanted House Chronicles’, a series of five stories following the girls’ antics as they uncover their family secrets. Issy, Molly and Daisy arrive in Hastings to stay with their great aunt, Miss Baglio, to be safe from war-torn London.

Das Zeitmobil (Band 1) – Gefangen in der Urzeit: Spannendes, actiongeladenes Zeitreise-Abenteuer für Jungen und Mädchen ab 9 JahrenBist du bereit für dein erstes Abenteuer mit dem Zeitmobil? Sengende Hitze, endlose Wüste und ausgehungerte Raubsaurier. Eine Welt, die kein Mensch je zu Gesicht bekommen hat …Bis jetzt. Denn genau hier sind sie gestrandet – Tom, Kata und Lea.

Indulge yourself with the charming and whimsical From Machu Picchu to El Dorado by Lino Omoboni. This is a voyage into the ancient past of the Incas as seen through the eyes of Melissa, a teenage girl who becomes central to their cause as both warrior and advocate, transported to a distant time many years into the past by the properties of a magical stone which she discovers whilst on a family holiday to the New Forest.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl–the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom. Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her peculiar family. Her life is quite boring–until strange things begin happening to her.

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is out eating pizza and then suddenly she finds herself with her brother, Tom, in the middle of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of St. John showed great courage and fortitude in fighting off an invasion from the Turkish Empire. Will they join Grandmaster Valette in battle?

Arriving at school, she notices that something is very different as she walks into her classroom. She is standing in a Victorian schoolroom, just like the ones in her history textbook. Arabella discovers that the discipline in Victorian times is very different than it is today.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, but tries to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in an extremely peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her.

One day, when Arabella looks for some clothes in the cupboard under the stairs, she finds Stuart Whynniard in hiding, who tells her that his father's house is rented out to a group of Englishmen who are planning to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The lead conspirator is Guido (Guy) Fawkes, who has the dangerous job of lighting the fuses to the gunpowder.

Tor is the youngest son of Harald Hardrada, King of Norway and leader of the Viking fleet, whose countless victories have been woven into song, his prowess the stuff of legend. Kata knows little of her parents, but her heart yearns for something beyond the small world of her Anglo-Saxon village south of the great city of York.

This book is part of the Against The Odds series, a captivating series of fictional—but inspired by true events—Hi-Lo chapter books tailored for striving listeners aged 10–14. Each title in this collection unravels the extraordinary experiences of young people overcoming incredible challenges. Whether it’s facing the unknown or triumphing against the odds, these stories are both riveting and inspiring.

У Христофора Колумбовича замечательные усы. С детства он мечтал стать капитаном корабля, но морская болезнь разрушила его планы. Теперь он брадобрей и очень любит свою работу. Однажды он решает навестить своего старого друга, который живет за океаном. И вот тут-то, по невероятному стечению обстоятельств, его мечта сбывается: на корабле «Виктория» он совершает опасное путешествие через Брррмудский квадрат.

Naeli longs to know her English father but all she has is his name – and his precious violin. Her chance comes when a ticket to England arrives. Leaving behind her beloved India, Naeli embarks on an adventure that will take her from the streets of Victorian London to the wilds of Northumberland to discover the truth of her musical inheritance.

Ross Bentley has supernatural gifts – he can move things with his mind – but this doesn’t stop him feeling alone and miserable when he’s cut off from family and friends in a remote farmhouse with Hunter, the taciturn but powerful Guild-member tasked with protecting and training him. But suddenly Hunter is summoned by the Guild. A gifted child has been kidnapped. Hunter needs to track her down, and he has no choice but to take Ross with him.

De nieuwe Vriens over een reizend theater. Rosa reist samen met haar familie het land door om op kermissen in theatervoorstellingen te spelen. Maar eigenlijk vindt Rosa toneelspelen verschrikkelijk. Als kleuter moest ze al meedoen en stond ze te huilen op het podium. Nu ze ouder is, speelt ze braaf haar rolletjes, maar ze zou liever bij de draaimolen helpen of achter de kassa zitten. Gelukkig heeft Rosa Teunis, de zeventienjarige jongen die de sterren van de hemel speelt in hun toneelstukken, vooral in de vrouwenrollen.

Winter is coming and Tuuli, along with her faithful wolf cub, Lupa, is on the move. Leaving her tribe behind, she sets out across the Tundra to discover a new world and find the family of Andar, the friend she has lost. The journey is hard, filled with ferocious animals and dangerous weather. But with danger everywhere, will Tuuli find what she is looking for?

The hero of the story is a ten-year-old Egyptian boy called Little Steps, who sets out on the quest to find and unite the 3 symbols of ancient Egypt–the Staff, the Flail and the Crook. On his quest he is joined by his three extraordinary friends: Red Brick, the Giant, Axiom, the Centaur and Lapis, the Vulture.

Band 7 der Bestseller-Reihe von Chris Bradford in neuem Look! Jack will mit seinen Freunden nach Nagasaki, um dort auf einem Schiff nach England anzuheuern. Aus Angst, den Samurai des Shoguns in die Arme zu laufen, entschließen sich die Gefährten für den Seeweg entlang der Küste. Doch auch auf dieser Route lauern todbringende Gefahren …. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

Henry, Frances and Lukas are neighbours, and they used to be best friends. But in middle school Frances got emo, Lukas went to private school and Henry just felt left behind. When they come together again for the funeral of a pet gerbil, the three ex-friends make a mind-blowing discovery: a radio, buried in Henry’s garden, that allows them to talk to another group of three kids in the same town in New Jersey, USA ... in the same backyard ... eighty years in the past.