Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire First published in 1946 with the d'Aulaires's beautiful lithographic prints, this tale of the first colony at Jamestown is told from the perspective of the...

Chosen by Kit WrightThis enjoyable anthology has been especially compiled by the poet Kit Wright. There are exciting poems about highwaymen, spine chilling poems of spectres and ghouls, delightful uplifting...

Saigyo Translated by Burton Wwatson Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form,...

Chosen by Anne HarveyA rich and inspiring anthology from a quintet of poets.Poems light and humorous, serious and subtle, from five of our most talented writers of children's cverse:Charles CausleyJohn...

Author: Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider, teenage superspy, is back.Fourteen-year-old Alex is back at school trying to adapt to his new double life... and double homework. But MI6 have other plans...

Catherine Coulter The explosive action kicks off as treasure-hunting FBI agent Ruth Warnecki is on the trail of stolen Confederate gold hidden in Winkel’s Cave in western Virginia. She never...

Jake MaddoxSomeone keeps playing pranks on Ryan and it is starting to affect how he plays basketball. Who is the big prankster and why is he or she out to...

Simon CheshireWhat kind of dirty tricks are being played at the local theatre? Why would someone take the blame for a crime they couldn’t have committed? And how do the...

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Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House transportss Jack and Annie to the freezing Arctic. There, they must solve the final riddle to become master librarians. But it's not going...

Martin Cruz SmithIn the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star, a huge fishing-factory ship. When a young girl is murdered,...

Jonathan FinePolitical Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: From Holy War to Modern TerrorReligious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet there are critical differences between the...