Usborne

I Spy: The Constantinople Caper

By Graham Marks - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

1927, Italy and Turkey. Trey, son of American engineering magnate, T. Drummond MacIntyre II, is on a special ‘quality time’ tour of Europe with ...Read Review

Thief!

By John Pilkington - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

(1) Elizabethan England. In his latest Elizabethan Mysteries adventure, 14-year-old actor, Ben Button, is visiting his family in the village of Hornsey after two ...Read Review

Far From Home

By K.M. Peyton - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the third volume in the Roman Pony Stories trilogy. Minna is watching as Theo, with whom she is hopelessly in love, ...Read Review

A World Away

By Pauline Francis - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Set in the 1580s in England and Virginia, this is the love story of Nadie, a Native American girl from Secota, near Roanoke, ...Read Review

No Turning Back

By K.M. Peyton - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the second in KM Peyton’s Roman pony story series featuring Minna, the daughter of the blacksmith at the Roman fort ...Read Review

Traitor

By John Pilkington - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Elizabethan London. In this second Elizabethan Mysteries adventure, prentice actor Ben Button is thrilled when Lord Bonner’s Players are commanded to perform ...Read Review

The Way of the Warrior

By Andrew Matthews - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

16th century Japan: a period of feuding samurai warlords. Ten-year-old Jimmu is woken one night by his father’s samurai bodyguard, Nichiren. His ...Read Review

Minna’s Quest

By K.M. Peyton - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

K.M. Peyton is a prolific writer of pony stories and this is a pony story for a mature teenage girl—with the ...Read Review

Cecily’s Portrait

By Adele Geras - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) London, 1895. When 12-year-old Cecily Bright meets Miss Rosalind Templeton, a professional photographer, she is fascinated by her new friend’s job. She loves ...Read Review

Tamburlaine’s Elephant

By Geraldine McCaughrean - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) 14th century Asia. Twelve-year-old Rusti, a Mongol, is one of Tamburlaine’s Golden Horde who swept through Asia conquering all in its path. ...Read Review