Puffin
Maybe
Newly named Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018/19, Morris Gleitzman is known for making tough issues accessible to young readers through…
Romans on the Rampage: Jail Break
Krysis, the head of the Imperial Mint, is wrongly jailed for stealing from the mint. His family is made homeless…
Gods and Warriors: The Crocodile Tomb
This book, the fourth in a series, is set in the Bronze Age. Two youngsters from different Greek societies, Hylas…
The Runaways
England, 1917. The country is at war and more men are needed at the Front, so Cullen’s Circus must close…
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
Rick Riordan, writing as his no-nonsense hero Percy Jackson, has pulled off a funny and informative introduction to Greek mythology.…
A Soldier’s Friend
1914. The First World War has begun and it will affect, not only men, women and children, but also animals,…
The Bomber Dog
Dover 1944: World War 2 is at its height. One night, after a bombing raid, a young Alsatian dog rescues…
The Burning Shadow
Bronze Age Greece. In this, the second Gods and Warriors book, Hylas, the Outsider; Pirra daughter of the High Priestess…
The Great Escape
Summer 1939. Robert Edwards, aged twelve, and his nine-year-old sister, Lucy, live in London with their parents and three pets:…
Victory Dogs
London, 1940. Misty, the much-loved dog of the Dolan family, vanishes in the first terrifying air-raid of the war. She…
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