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Buenos Aires se viste de fiesta para celebrar la asunción del nuevo rey de España. "¡Viva Fernando VII!", dirán muchos de los habitantes del Río de la Plata... pero no todos. Porque una parte del pueblo se atreve a soñar con una patria libre y alienta con sigilo la causa revolucionaria. Pero ese no es el único secreto que guardan las calles de la ciudad: un amor imposible comienza a gestarse entre la joven Amanda Encinas y el mulato Tobías Tatamuez, y buscará abrirse paso al compás de los tambores y el dulce aroma de la canela.

“Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book,” -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony “Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you’ve ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you.” -Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times...

An orchestra explodes in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and suddenly the music of London disappears...and a terrifying monster stirs off the Greenwich peninsular, threatening to trample London underfoot. The detectives must track down the thief behind the music's disappearance – via the Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, a Windmill-with-teeth on the Isle of Dogs and the dark streets of Soho...where a shadowy villain and his mechanical animal spies live.

Tag along with the Timekeepers in these history-themed adventure stories to discover amazing people and events that shaped our world. Meet the Timekeepers, a secret organization of kids who keep the course of history on track – and history needs them! A villain called DeLay is set on causing...

This is the story of women who fought during WWI, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a post-office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a...

Brasil, 1667. O jovem Francisco, capturado quando criança e entregue à Igreja, vive como coroinha em Porto Calvo e sonha com a liberdade. Ágil e silencioso, explora o vilarejo à noite, pregando peças, vingando os negros mortos no tronco e aterrorizando feitores e senhores de engenho como um fantasma – ou como um nzumbi, em quimbundo, a língua típica de Angola. Até que surge uma oportunidade de fuga, e Francisco a aproveita, dando início a sua jornada para se tornar quem a história não esqueceria: Zumbi dos Palmares, filho de Angola Janga.

Die Jaguarkrieger haben sich gegen den König von Tikal erhoben. Jetzt droht ihnen der Opfertod. Xkik', die Tochter des Großen Jaguars, will das nicht hinnehmen und macht sich auf den Weg ihren Vater und dessen Männer zu befreien. Fred weiß von all dem nichts, als er zusammen mit Opa Alfred in der Morgendämmerung die steile Treppe zum Tempel der Masken hinaufsteigt, um den Sonnenaufgang zu bestaunen. Frühstück über den Baumwipfeln des dampfenden Regenwaldes - das Highlight ihrer Reise durch Mesoamerika.

When Sidney Dashworth's school is evacuated to a huge stately home in the countryside, she thinks she's going to spend the war being very bored. At least her brother must be having fun, flying his Spitfire all over France! But soon Sidney and a housemaid called Nancy discover that the Earl is up to no good. He has secret nighttime meetings with mysterious men from the government and seems to be hiding something sinister on his land. At first it's all terribly thrilling, investigating by creeping about at night and finding secret passageways, but soon everything takes a deadly turn.

Twelve-year-old Dory Byrne lives with her brothers on New York City's Lower East Side, waiting impatiently through the darkest hours of World War II for her pop to come home from fighting Hitler. Legally speaking, Dory's brother, Fish, isn't old enough to be in charge of Dory and her younger brother, Pike, but the neighborhood knows the score and, like Pop always says, "the neighborhood will give you what you need." There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. 

Based on a true story. In October 1660, Etienne Gayneau rushes through the cobblestone streets of La Rochelle, France, to meet his cousin at the harbor. A ship carrying King Louis XIV's elite musketeers is docking. He dreams of becoming one himself, but has no idea that their arrival will force his Huguenot family to flee in the dead of night. His cousin has offered him a safe haven. Now he must choose - stay and pursue his dream or leave and face an uncertain destiny. Both choices are fraught with dangers. Either way his life will never be the same.

Berlin, 1961. Anja and Monika are best friends–they even share a cat called Otto. When a huge barbed wire fence is built between their apartment blocks, everything changes; their city and family are divided by the Berlin Wall. In the West, Anja is sure it will be taken down, but Monika is afraid. Her world is changing: neighbours keep disappearing, others become spies and shadowy threats lurk around every corner.

Twins Scarlett and Thomas are learning about the Romans at school. So Grandad uses his time machine to send them back to Roman Britain. Scarlett finds herself in a Roman camp and is chosen as a slave by the Emperor Claudius's daughter, Antonia. The two become friends and Scarlett sees first hand the glamour and treachery of the Roman court. Thomas joins a rabble of local kids who hate the Romans. Their leader is a small red-headed girl called Boudicca. Even when the kids are overwhelmed and taken as slaves, Bou hatches another plan to attack the Romans.

Auf einer Reise nach China lernen David, Jonas und Emma nicht nur dieses faszinierende Land näher kennen, sie treffen auch auf den mächtigsten Piraten aller Zeiten – und der war eine Frau. Sie erleben mit, wie die kluge und gerissene Zheng Yisao die Macht über eine riesige Piratenflotte an sich reißt, in gefährlichen Seeschlachten kämpft und sogar den Plan schmiedet, den chinesischen Kaiser vom Thron zu stoßen. Die Ereignisse, in die David, Jonas und Emma durch ihr Zauberbuch hineingeraten, sind mehr als 200 Jahre her.

Uri Shulevitz plasma sus memorias en este libro y narra cómo durante su infancia él y su familia judía se vieron obligados a escapar de los terrores de los nazis al huir de Varsovia hacia la Unión Soviética, y cómo gracias a la suerte y al azar él y sus padres lograron salvar sus vidas. A la par, en esos años llenos de peligros en todo momento, el pequeño Uri experimenta su despertar artístico, lo que resulta fundamental durante ese periodo tan difícil. Un relato que ilustra la determinación, el coraje, la lealtad familiar y la esperanza en medio de tiempos angustiosos.

Bridget and Josie are leaving rural Ireland for New York, to stay with a distant relative, Catherine, who has found jobs for them. On the journey they meet a young orphaned girl, Julia, who is travelling alone in hopes of staying with her long-absent brother. When they get to the brother's address, he is no longer there, and no one knows where he has gone to. In the following weeks they do their best to search for him, but are unsuccessful as he has a common name, and the police are not particularly interested in finding yet another lost Irish man.

It's the early 1980s, and a group of rag-tag Boy Scouts on a remote Washington State Island find what they think is a floating Russian spy device. Authorities initially ridicule their find, but when the device goes missing, ferry service is soon disrupted, and power and phones get cut off, the Scouts are threatened and pursued as spies shut down the island to get it back. What chance do Boy Scouts have against armed spy-thugs?

Can one tiny bird help to win a world war? A funny action-adventure story with a feathery twist, from bestselling children's author, Dermot O'Leary. It's 1940, and the world is at war. Linus, a swift, has always dreamed of flying with the Royal Bird Force and making a name for himself as a...

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming “No Dogs or Mexicans” and “No Mexicans Allowed.” When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of “repatriation” efforts to send Mexicans “back to Mexico”—whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. 

Globi findet ein seltsames Schmuckstück und gerät in die Welt der Kelten. Spannung ist garantiert! Die Geschichten spielen zur Zeit der Sage von König Artus der durch Zauberkraft das Schwert Excalibur aus dem Amboss zog.

Globi besucht eine China-Ausstellung. Beim Betrachten eines Drachenbilds döst er ein und träumt sich ins alte China. Er begegnet einem kleinen Drachen, der seine Mutter verloren hat. Globi will ihm helfen, sie wiederzufinden. Und schon sind die beiden mitten in einem spannenden Abenteuer. Auf ihrer Suche durchstreifen sie faszinierende Landschaften, überlisten einen Tiger, werden von einem Panda gerettet, und geraten einmal sogar in Gefangenschaft. Wieder können die Kinder mit Globi in eine faszinierende Welt eintauchen.