Part of the new ‘Hello Kitty Loves’ series. Hello Kitty loves Christmas and wants you to celebrate the season with her. Use your stickers in a range of fun Christmas activities. From completing her advent calendar to wrapping presents, decorating the tree and choosing festive food, celebrate all that’s great about Christmas with Hello Kitty. With over 100 stickers, this book is the perfect accompaniment to the festive season.
In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life.
With the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices — and a huge family secret. It’s 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta’s life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother...
Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
Powder Monkey (Powder Monkey, #4)
by Carol R Campbell and Margaret Whitman Blair
In the second year of the Civil War, Tad Lynch becomes trapped below deck on a Confederate warship and is pressed into service during a two day battle between the Merrimack and three Union ships.
Amid political turmoil and threats of plague, young Tom Barton accepts the risks of helping William Tyndale publish and smuggle into England the Bible he has translated into English.
The Discovery of Fireworks and Gunpowder (The Asian Hall of Fame)
by Phil Amara and Oliver Chin
The Sabbath candlesticks given to them by their grandmother when they leave Russia help two sisters make it safely to join their father in New York.
A young boy plays a key role when the War of 1812 comes to his Massachusetts coastal fishing village. The little town of Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, was the site of one of the wildest invasions in U.S. history, when the might of the British Empire came up against hardheaded New England townsfolk. The Invasion of Sandy Bay, based on eyewitness accounts of actual events, tells the talethrough the eyes of a twelve-year-old boyof what happened on the night when the British put too much gunpowder in...
The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile
by Ian Beck
On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels. Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange reports of mysterious lights above Litton Cheney. The villagers suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody is gifted with a special sixth sense, and knows there's something far more intriguing going o...
Make More Noise!
by Emma Carroll, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Catherine Johnson, Ally Kennen, Patrice Lawrence, M. G. Leonard, Sally Nicholls, Ella Risbridger, Jeanne Willis, and Katherine Woodfine
"You have to make more noise than anybody else" - Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British Suffragette movementAn incredible collection of brand new short stories, from ten of the UK's very best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, being published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the UK. £1 from the sale of every book will be donated to Camfed, an international charity which tackles poverty and inequality by supporting women's education in the de...
Pojo and King Tut Tut's Lost Treasure (Pojo a Little Toy Dog Goes off on Adventures Whilst His Owner Sam is Asleep)
by Tonya Meers and Natasha Dennis