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From the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, also a TV show and movie, who has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Horrible Histories author Terry Deary presents a fantastic collection of Shakespeare tales based on action-packed true stories – four books in one! Perfect for history fans (and those who don't know they're history fans yet) aged 7+.

Sunil is bored. Very bored. Whilst home alone, he accidentally breaks his grandfather's most prized possession and must scramble for a way to fix it. Alex, his eccentric next-door neighbour, has an unusual solution to his problem – a time machine! Soon, Sunil is visiting the freezing, icy depths of Antarctica as a stowaway on a stranded ship and the heart of London to meet famous astronauts – all while trying to stay away from a mysterious man with a particularly suspicious pet kiwi…

The second thrilling adventure in a new historical series from Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian. Britannia AD 94. On the run from the Emperor Domitian, fifteen-year-old Fronto has joined the Roman army in order to find the security and structure he craves. But when his younger sister Ursula is captured by a terrifying Druid called Snakebeard, he must make an impossible decision. Can he leave the army, when desertion is punishable by death?

When young Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary, she is treated like royalty. Dressed in silks and lace, she is kind, generous, and loved by all. But when tragedy strikes and her father’s fortune is lost, Sara is cast down from privilege to poverty—banished to a cold attic and forced to work as a servant. Through it all, Sara refuses to lose her imagination or her belief in kindness. With courage and compassion, she transforms even her bleakest moments into something beautiful—proving that being a “princess” comes not from wealth or status, but from strength of heart.

When siblings Casey and Kiley reunite with their alien friend Tuttle—a robotic bird and observer for an advanced civilization known as the Monitors—they are transported back to Trinity County during the height of the California Gold Rush. What begins as a mission to observe the environmental impact of early mining quickly turns into a dangerous rescue operation when local children begin disappearing. As the siblings navigate frontier towns, stagecoach robberies, and lawless mining camps, they uncover a chilling secret behind the legend of Bigfoot.

Allie’s life with Mama isn’t bad, but she knows it could be better if Mama would find someone to marry. Allie’s worst enemy, her NOT-friend Gwen, has a daddy, and Allie wants someone like that—someone to fix things when they break, someone who likes to sing, and has a kind-smile. So Allie makes a plan—her super secret Man-For-Mama plan. She has a list of candidates with a clear top choice: Mr. Johnson, who owns the antique store. Best of all, Mr. Johnson went to school with Mama, and he wants to get reacquainted!

The spooky sequel to Deep Dark, the Times Children's Book of the Week from enchanting storyteller Zohra Nabi comes another Cassia Thorne Mystery – this is Enola Holmes with a supernatural twist! She held up the hagstone and she noticed something strange – a shimmering light like tiny...

Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Annie, read by Annie Potts 'Annie' began in 1924 as the heroine of a comic strip cartoon called LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE. Her adventures ran in newspapers in America for over 40 years before it was turned into a Broadway musical. It's 1933 and for...

The sisters of STREET CHILD tell their story… A companion novel to bestselling story of Victorian orphan Jim Jarvis based on the founding of Dr Barnardo’s homes for children. When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he thinks he will never see them again. Now for the...

Outlaw Princess of Sherwood is award-winning author Nancy Springer's third delightful tale of Rowan Hood. Her popular adventure novels provide a fresh new vision of the medieval period. When Princess Ettarde refuses to marry the man her father, King Solon, has chosen for her, she flees to Sherwood Forest and joins Rowan Hood's band of outlaws.

Cora Mae Tipton knows every inch of Shadow Mountain. In the shade of the towering trees, amidst the thickets, streams, and smokehouses, the rhythm of life around her beloved holler hasn’t much changed for generations. Until now. For the first time, electrical power is coming to the rural communities of eastern Kentucky. Cora knows in her heart how much good could come of it. Electrical power means progress. Connection to the outside world. More light. And electricity might just help make her dreams of a life beyond Shadow Mountain come true.

What is it like to walk away from your home? To leave behind everything and everyone you’ve ever known? Poetic, sensitive, and based on a true family history, Lost Words follows a young Armenian boy who sets out to find refuge to the day he finally finds the courage to share his story.

Eli dresses up in his best clothes, Mama gathers the mayflowers, Papa straightens his hat, and together they join the crowds filling the streets of Charleston with bouquets, crosses, and wreaths. Joined by abolitionists, missionaries, teachers, military officers, and a sea of faces black, brown, and white, they march as one and sing for all those who gave their lives fighting for freedom during the Civil War.

Köln im Jahre des Herrn 1212. Eine Schar von Kindern bricht in das Gelobte Land auf, um die Heilige Stadt Jerusalem von den Ungläubigen zu befreien - ohne Waffen, nur mit Gottes Hilfe. Ihr Anführer: Nikolaus, ein selbst noch jugendlicher Prediger aus Köln. Wird die waghalsige Mission gelingen? Autor Andreas Galk bettet eine fiktive Romanhandlung in die inzwischen historisch belegten Ereignisse ein und schildert so ebenso plastisch wie drastisch die Geschehnisse dieser dunklen Episode aus dem Mittelalter.

Im Jahr 150 nach Christus erscheint in der kleinen Stadt Abonuteichos ein heiliger Mann. Er nennt sich Alexander und vollbringt Wunder, die die Menschen in Ehrfurcht und Erstaunen versetzen: Eine Schlange, die aus einem Gänseei schlüpft! Eine Schlange mit Menschenkopf, die sprechen kann und die Zukunft voraussagt! Alexander wird zu einem mächtigen Propheten, dem die Menschen zu Füßen liegen. Dabei ist er nichts weiter als ein trickreicher Betrüger.

From the world's #1 bestselling author, an action-packed adventure where all that stands between an evil villain and world domination is a pair of twelve-year-olds who just learned they're time travelers—what could go wrong?! Twins Pew and Basket Church dream of escaping the miserable...

Die Schwarzen Ritter versetzen das Land Colorania in Angst und Schrecken. Als Emith erfährt, dass sie ihm nach dem Leben trachten, muss er fliehen. Gemeinsam mit seiner Freundin Cynthia begibt er sich auf eine gefährliche Reise. Wird es ihm gelingen, sich in Sicherheit zu bringen? Und was hat es mit dem seltsamen Traum auf sich, den er und viele seiner Freunde hatten? Ein Kampf um Leben und Tod beginnt, in dem es nicht mehr nur darum geht, Emiths Leben zu retten, sondern auch Colorania vor dem Untergang zu bewahren.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling mystery and collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin! This historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their...

Gisela Pekrul, Jahrgang 1944, hat in dem Büchlein kleine Episoden aus ihrem Leben aufgeschrieben, die sie schon mehrmals ihren Enkeln erzählen musste. Nun können sie diese Erinnerungen an die Zeit vor rund 60 Jahren selbst lesen. Die Geschichten spielen in Wolteritz, einem kleinen Dorf in Sachsen, das heute zu Schkeuditz gehört. Es sind Begebenheiten, die für das kleine Mädchen und ihren Bruder so schlimm waren, dass sie nach so langer Zeit noch nicht vergessen wurden.

Ist Anastasia, die Tochter des russischen Zaren, wirklich im Jahr 1918 erschossen worden oder hat sie überlebt? Keiner weiß es genau, als plötzlich in Berlin eine junge Frau auftaucht, die behauptet, die verschwundene Anastasia zu sein. Sie sieht ihr sehr ähnlich und sie weiß Dinge, die eigentlich nur die echte Zarentochter wissen kann. In Wirklichkeit ist sie aber nur die Fabrikarbeiterin Franziska Schanzkowski, die sich ihre Ähnlichkeit und die herrschende Unsicherheit zunutze macht, um in die Rolle einer anderen Frau zu schlüpfen und dadurch vielleicht unermesslich reich zu werden.