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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! A young girl finds herself—and so much more—during a summer stay with her grandparents in this tender novel from Newbery Award–winning author Patricia MacLachlan. When Louisa (short for Louisiana) is sent to stay with her grandparents for the summer, she’s not looking forward to it. While her brother is determined to find a way to stay on Deer Island forever, Louisa would rather be off having adventures with their globetrotting ornithographer parents. Sh...

The tyrannous Huntsmen have declared everyone in one village to be outlaws, since they insist on supporting the magical beings of neighbouring Darkwood. Why won’t they accept that magic is an abomination? Far from being abominable, the residents of Darkwood are actually very nice when you get to know them, even Snow the White Knight, who can get a bit tetchy when people remind her she’s a Princess. In order to stop the Huntsmen from wiping out all magical beings, Snow and her friends have to v...

The Woodsman is the story of Amos, Keeper of the Forest for King Charles the First, who by some strange alchemy finds himself shockingly stranded in the 21st century. Whether he can return to his own time four hundred ago, largely depends on the ingenuity and resourcefulness of three furry heroes; a free-spirited hound, a food-obsessed cat and his very bossy, opinionated sister. The friends set out to find a window through time and send Amos back 400 years to his own time amidst the English Civi...

For hundreds of years, people have reported stories of something strange lurking in Loch Ness in Scotland. Are any of these stories true? If so, what could the monster possibly be? Can science solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster? Using the scientific method to evaluate the evidence, this book attempts to find out!

Peter, 17 years old, six foot tall and good looking has started to notice a ghostly orb hanging around in his bedroom, at the home he shares with his divorced mum. He resolves to speak to it the next time it appears and just as he is about to fall asleep that evening, the orb appears. He speaks to it and it answers back. The orb turns out to be nothing to do with a spirit but is actually a contact device called a 'Visioner' belonging to an alien ambassador, who has been studying and learning abo...

Covering 140,000 years of legend, mythology, and fact, The Werewolf Book provides hair-raising evidence of strange and obsessional behavior through the centuries. Learn the basics of becoming a werewolf and the intricacies of slaying the beast. An eye-opening, blood-pounding tour through the ages of monsters with the most amazing camouflage capabilities, along the way you'll land at the doorstep of creatures like hirsute mass murderer Albert Fish, and Fritz Haarman, who slaughtered and ate his v...

This amazing collection of the weird and wonderful contains entries on everything from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the spooky to the just plain confounding. The book includes some of history's most astounding tales of the strange and supernatural, and tells in vivid detail the story behind the events and the people involved, the impact of particular myths and beliefs, and the latest investigations being undertaken in an attempt to find answers to the world's most baffling phenomena. Fr...

It's a big question - will we ever live on the Moon? The Moon is incredible, as are the selenologists who study it! The Moon might be distant and look barren now, but imagine one day calling it home! Discover the stories behind selenology, check out what's so special about the Moon, how the moon could be a stepping stone to Mars, and the challenges of building a base camp for scientists to study space from. Beautifully bound with stunning illustrations, this unique and collectable narrative non...

Luisito Comunica viaja de un extremo a otro del planeta. La curiosidad es el motor de las aventuras que lo lanzan hasta los terrenos más inhóspitos y misteriosos. En lugares asombrosos. Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer el mundo podrás viajar – con Luisito como compañero y guía- A los lugares más reconditos de uno, dos y más continentes: a sitios abandonados que conservan la huella de un hecho inexplicable; espacios delineados por trazos y personajes místico...