The New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders series and of books in the 39 Clues series, Peter Lerangis, brings us the final installment of the thrilling Max Tilt trilogy. Max Tilt thinks his luck is finally changing, thanks to his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures. Using the clues Verne left behind, Max and his cousin Alex were able to bottle the magical healing elements needed to cure his mother's illness just in th...
The Mute of Pendywick Place and the River Thames (The Pendywick Place, #3)
by Alydia Rackham
The Oregon Trail: Danger at the Haunted Gate (Oregon Trail, #2)
by Jesse Wiley
Life changes completely for twins Alice and Jack when the First World War breaks out. Jack leaves the stables to fight and Alice becomes a nurse. In the four years of war they mature, maintaining their courage, sense of purpose and capacity for love.
Gladiator School 5: Blood & Thunder (Gladiator School)
by Dan Scott
Blood and Thunder is the fifth instalment in the thrilling Gladiator School series. There are patrols out on the streets of Rome searching for Lucius, Quin and Isi, but they have bigger problems to deal with. The body of a man is found washed up on the banks of the Tiber. It is revealed to be Apollinaris, a former physician to the deceased emperor Titus. Certain that the physician would not have taken his own life, the three set out to find Apollinaris' murderer. This leads them on a dark journ...
Scribblers Fun Activity Medieval Castle Sticker Book (Scribblers Fun Activity)
by Margot Channing
Decorate each colourful scene with stickers from 8 pages of over 350 fantastic stickers! Children will have hours of fun adding stickers to the medieval castle scenes to make them look the way they want. Each spread features things to look for, find and count, along with fun facts and questions. A treasure hunt activity at the end means children can go back and spot things they might not have noticed before. This interactive and fun book provides a wealth of learning opportunities for young chi...
The fever of the New Zealand gold rush still runs in the veins of Eden, and everyone knows the legend of Doc Magee: how he found the largest gold nugget anyone had ever seen and hid it somewhere in the hills before he disappeared. Jenny and her best friend, Pandora, know that if they can find the gold, it ll solve all their problems.
Four-year-old Lula McLean lived on a plantation overlooking Bull Run Creek. There her family grew wheat, corn, and oats. In July 1861, troops fighting in the newly begun Civil War arrived on the McLeans' front lawn in Manassas, Virginia. The peaceful countryside where Lula often spent time playing with her favorite rag doll became a campsite full of cannon and trenches and tents. Wilmer McLean decided to relocate his family to a tiny village called Appomattox Court House, away from the war and t...
Blunder is convinced that he and Thud have to save a princess if they want to become True Heroes. Unfortunately, princesses in distress are in short supply in Village Town, so the two nine-year-old knights journey to Castle Kidnapt to hire one. Upon arrival, they find out that the only princess available for saving is a five-year-old girl with a thirst for adventure. Can Thud and Blunder keep up with Princess Punch, or will they end up being the ones in need of saving? These early chapter books...
The Sketchbook of Thomas Blue Eagle
by Gay Matthaei and Jewel Grutman
In eloquent and often illuminating prose, accompanied *illustrations reminiscent of both Native American pictographic style and European influences, this fictional sketchbook details Blue Eagle's remarkable travels across the Big waters with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late 1800's. He performs with the legendary Annie Oakley, becomes famous in Paris, loses all of his money, wins it all back again in a suspenseful challenge with an Italian prince, and joyfully returns home. Blue Eag...
If you saw a badger-like creature enter a door into a solid wall of rock at the back of your granny's house, what would you do? Follow it, of course. That is exactly what Eden Nook, an ordinary boy from Penrith, did. And what did he find there? A mysterious portal to Penrith's past. A magical place of pikemen, Reivers and Romans - adventures beyond his wildest dreams.
Thembi and her great-grandmother, Gogo, are inseparable. Gogo is so old, she hasn't left the house in years. One day Thembi's parents come home and announce that black South Africans will be allowed to vote for the first time in a government election, and the whole family is astounded when Gogo says she will go out and cast her vote, too. And she insists on bringing Thembi with her!
