Usborne
Where the World Ends
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Based on a real event, this is a story that sings to the soul. It belongs—in shoals—in every school and library. ...Read Review
The Earth is Singing
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1940, Riga, Latvia. Fifteen-year-old Hanna Michelson is training to be a ballet dancer and she has a boyfriend, the handsome Uldis. Life was good – ...Read Review
The Middle of Nowhere
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Comity Pinny’s mother dies of a snake bite in the remote Australian outback where her father runs the telegraph station in Kinkindele. ...Read Review
Quest of the Gods: Attack of the Scorpion Raiders
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
The evil Pharaoh Obo has chosen to ally himself with Set, the Egyptian god of darkness. The good gods who protect Egypt have ...Read Review
Traitor’s Kiss
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Elizabeth I is one of England’s best known rulers and is often described as the ‘Virgin Queen’. This novel explores her early ...Read Review
Shadow of the Ninja
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Japan 1575, a country ruled by feuding warlords. In his second adventure, the young Samurai Jimmu finds his old master, Lord Ankan, in trouble. ...Read Review
Jimmy’s Stars
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Ellie doesn’t want her brother Jimmy to go to war. He’s her favourite person in the whole world. Smug Victoria Gandeck ...Read Review
Beowulf
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Anglo-Saxon Denmark. In this re-telling of Beowulf, Rob Lloyd Jones’s story and Victor Tavares’s illustrations make the perfect match. The story ...Read Review
The Story of Robin Hood
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This simple tale has the bare bones of the Robin Hood story: Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, the outlaw band who rob the rich ...Read Review
Time Train to the Blitz
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Using the device of time travel via a train that appears from nowhere Joe, Scarlett and Pippy the dog go where fate sends ...Read Review
