The Sound of Munich (S.A.S.S.: Students Across the Seven Seas)
by Suzanne Nelson
Siena Bernstein attends school in Munich for three months, where she perfects her German languague skills, flirts with her attractive resident advisor, and attempts to find the man who helped her father's family escape East Berlin in 1962.
A thirteen-year-old American girl plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.
Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone. This lively collection brings to life the very best English traditional fairy-tales and stories. From Johnny Gloke the giant killer and the frog prince at the World's End, to the better-known characters of Dick Whittington and Tom Thumb, this magical collection is full of adventure a...
Join Poetino Piccolino as he rescues his amici (friends) in Rome. Meet the feroce leone (ferocious lion). Run and play in the Coliseum and Forum ; enjoy the Fontana di Trevi (Fountain of Trevi), gelato (ice cream) and biscotti (cookies). Discover how Poetino Piccolino saves the day and becomes the best topolino (little mouse) ever!
A collection of over sixty stories from around the world about gnomes, dwarfs, leprechauns, fairies and wee folk from Ireland, Russia, Germany, Scotland, Spain, France, Switzerland, England, Flanders and Scandinavia.
In 1387, fifteen-year-old Belle joins Geoffrey Chaucer, his scribe Luke, squire Walter, and others on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury to atone and pray for a cure for her father's crippling injury, but political intrigue threatens them all.
Welcome to Haarville -- if you've arrived, you've survived. Off the grid and not on the maps, it's a place shrouded in fog and steeped in pungent pongs. Everything here smells fishy, especially the town's suspicious new arrivals.Twelve-year-old Manx Fearty is an orphan (his family has a terrible habit of dying, terribly), and now he's about to lose their perpetual device shop to sinister newcomers claiming to be long-lost relatives. As he sets out to prove them wrong, Manx finds himself on the t...
Siblings Alfie and Emilia are magically transported to Paris, where a case of mistaken identity finds them caught up in the behind-the-scenes drama at a traditional French cooking school. Alfie and Emilia are transported to Paris, where a case of mistaken identity finds them caught up in the behind-the-scenes drama at a traditional French cooking school. The coauthor is Taylor Morris. Book #2
A superstitious girl must try to turn her horrible luck around during a family trip to Ireland in this M!X novel from the author of Lost in London. Meghan McGlinchey is the most superstitious girl in her family-and probably in the entire state of Delaware. When she receives a chain letter from a stranger in Ireland, Meghan immediately passes it on, taking only a tiny shortcut in the directions. But after a disastrous day, made complete by losing the election for class president and embarrassi...
Sing Auld Lang Syne while you climb to the top of a Castle. Wave to a Highland cow in John O'Groats. Put on a Kilt and avoid those Midgies as you visit a Loch to meet Nessie. Then speed back over the Forth Bridge to Edinburgh Zoo -- not forgetting your Umbrella Take a whistle-stop tour through the Scottish alphabet! Each letter from A to Z represents the best of everything Scottish: beautiful landscapes, fascinating history and amazing wildlife. Just watch out for the weather! This charming and...
In her diary, ten-year-old Melanie describes how she and her family, accompanied by her best friend Cecily, travel to the Netherlands, where they have a good time despite Cecily's concern for her mother's health and Melanie's struggles with her little brother and her own attitude.
Introducing "Sookin' Berries", her collection of stories for younger readers, Jess Smith writes: 'I have been a gatherer of tales for most of my life, and I suppose it all began when I was a wee girl. I shared a home with parents, seven sisters and a shaggy dog. It could be said that I lived a different sort of life from most other children, because 'home' was an old blue bus. We were known as tinkers or travellers, descendants of those who have wandered the highways and by ways of Scotland for...
Como Un Salto de Campana (Serie Azul) (Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil)
by Victor Carvajal
Gallant knights, the enchanting Elf Queen, witches, wizards and wee faery folk...you'll find them all in this exciting collection of Scottish fairy tales and legends. Whether you prefer Highland legends, ancient sagas, or warrior adventures, there's something for everyone in this collection -- along with a good helping of Gaelic magic!
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.