Usborne
The Earth is Singing
Editors' choice
1940, Riga, Latvia. Fifteen-year-old Hanna Michelson is training to be a ballet dancer and she has a boyfriend, the handsome…
The Middle of Nowhere
Comity Pinny’s mother dies of a snake bite in the remote Australian outback where her father runs the telegraph station…
Quest of the Gods: Attack of the Scorpion Raiders
The evil Pharaoh Obo has chosen to ally himself with Set, the Egyptian god of darkness. The good gods who…
Traitor’s Kiss
Elizabeth I is one of England’s best known rulers and is often described as the ‘Virgin Queen’. This novel explores…
Jimmy’s Stars
Editors' choice
Ellie doesn’t want her brother Jimmy to go to war. He’s her favourite person in the whole world. Smug Victoria…
Shadow of the Ninja
Japan 1575, a country ruled by feuding warlords. In his second adventure, the young Samurai Jimmu finds his old master,…
I Spy: The Constantinople Caper
1927, Italy and Turkey. Trey, son of American engineering magnate, T. Drummond MacIntyre II, is on a special ‘quality time’…
Time Train to the Blitz
Using the device of time travel via a train that appears from nowhere Joe, Scarlett and Pippy the dog go…
The Story of Robin Hood
This simple tale has the bare bones of the Robin Hood story: Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, the outlaw band who…
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Denmark. In this re-telling of Beowulf, Rob Lloyd Jones’s story and Victor Tavares’s illustrations make the perfect match. The…
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