From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Buffalo Soldier Tanya Landman comes this heart-stopping tale of a young man\"s attempt to clear his father\"s name. When his father is arrested and transported to the Colonies, Caleb is left alone. After a desperate journey in search of an aunt he’s never met he receives a strange, cold welcome....

From the author of the Carnegie Medal-winning Buffalo Soldier comes the heart-stopping tale of a young man\"s attempt to clear his father\"s name. When his father is arrested and transported to the Colonies, Caleb is left alone. After a desperate journey in search of an aunt he’s never met he receives a strange, cold welcome....

Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015. \\\"What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man\"s back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That\"s who.\\\" At the end of the American Civil War, Charley – a young African-American slave from the deep south – is ostensibly freed....

From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Buffalo Soldier comes the story of a young girl struggling to change the course of her fate as the once mighty Aztec Empire collapses around her. In the golden city of Tenochtitlan, the people live in fear of the gods; to keep them at bay, they are prepared to pay a toll in blood....

From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Buffalo Soldier comes this haunting account of the Apache\"s struggle for survival. Siki is an orphan of the Black Mountain Apache. Her mother was killed by Mexicans three years ago and her father lost in an ambush the winter before that....

Slapstick comedy caper for children of 8+ starring movie aficionado Sam Swann and his canine sidekick. Sam, his make-up artist dad and his Labrador, Watson, are jetting off to America to film superhero blockbuster Attack of the Blobs!!! First stop: Moviewonderland....

Flotsam and Jetsam live on a tiny secluded beach. Every day the sea brings them a new adventure: a huge heap of bedraggled feathers that turns out to be a shelduck; an umbrella that becomes a summer house; and a very special surprise!...

One day Flotsam and Jetsam find a whistle. They don’t know what it is and, when Flotsam blows it, it makes a horrible sound so they keep it as a seagull scarer. But little do they know that someone else has heard it too – a big dog with a wet nose who comes to investigate. He even spends the night in their boat house!...

A tiny beach... An upturned boat... A whisper of smoke... When Flotsam and Jetsam are washed ashore, they soon become the best of friends. Every day brings a new adventure for the tiny pair. Join them as they battle a spiteful seagull, build a new home and rescue a very shy hermit crab....

Sam Swann and his dad are heading to Egypt to film Tomb of Doom!!! and Sam is pretty excited about the location – all those pyramids, temples and mummies. Real, live dead people! On set, however, it’s the live ones Sam needs to watch....

Samuel Swann’s dad, special effects make-up artist to the stars, always takes Sam with him when he’s working on location. Which is pretty cool. Movie sets are fun places to hang out – and you learn plenty, so that’s the home schooling box ticked....

William Popidopolis is in deep water! The kraken, a giant squid from Norse mythology, is extremely tired, and has swum from the warm waters of Bermuda to the colder waters of Britain for a long sleep. But if it falls asleep beneath the British Isles, the bubbles from its snoring will thin the water and Europe will sink!...

William travels to a Greek isle to meet his long-lost father. There he meets a talking swan, who is really Zeus, king of the gods – and he desperately needs William\"s help. The knot that ties the world together is slipping, and the planet is about to explode! Can they trick the Gorgons and retie the knot before it is too late?...

The wife of anchorman Dermot O’Flannery dies during a bungled burglary and the killer is never caught. Six months later Poppy and Graham are faced with a long, hot summer dog-walking for Poppy’s next-door neighbour....

When Poppy and Graham are whisked off to a Greek island to watch musician Bill Strummer marry his much younger girlfriend in the celebrity wedding of the year, they are expecting sun, sea and a hint of scandal. But things begin to turn sour when Bill’s distressed ex-wife turns up, proclaiming that he\"s still in love with her....