There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes. Most never questioned their murderous way of life.

Then, upon that pirates' shore crashed the ship The Isle of Skye. And the youngest of its crew members, 14-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. But would he escape the...

Harold Kline is an albino--an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. It's been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it.
Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold's loneliness. He's eager to meet the Cannibal King, a sideshow attraction who's an albino, too. He's touched that Princess Minikin and the Fossil Man, two other sideshow curiosities, embrace him like a son. He's in love with Flip, the pretty and beguiling horse trainer, and awed by the all-knowing Gypsy Magda. Most of all, Harold...

A young boy gradually comes to understand the difference between his toy soldiers and the bloodshed of the First World War in this poignant story.

Krabbe und ihr Bruder Alastair wachsen unter extremen Bedingungen auf. Paradiesisch schn, aber hllisch einsam ist es auf Lizzie Island, nur zusammen mit den Eltern - ohne wirklichen Kontakt nach auen. Die Situation spitzt sich verhngnisvoll zu, als beide aus der Kindheit heraustreten.Einige jahre spter kehrt Krabbe als junge Frau auf die Insel zurck. Nicht nur fr sie bedeutet ihre Rckkehr eine Reise in die Vergangenheit und eine Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens.

Noch steht die Rache an Mr. Goodfellow aus, der Tom Tins Familie ins Verderben gestrzt hat. Aber Tom gibt nicht auf, obwohl sein Leben durch die Begegnung mit zwei Gestrandeten eine weitere grausame Wendung nimmt. Furios fhrt Iain Lawrence seine Abenteuer- Trilogie ber Tom Tin zu einem Ende, das eigentlich auch ein neuer Anfang ist.Tschukatie-tschikadie. Zu fnft tuckern sie verloren auf ihrem kleinen Dampfschiff ber die offene See: Tom Tin, Midgely, Boggis, Weedle und Penny, als ein Geisterschiff auf sie zuhlt. Wenig spter nehmen sie von einem Eisberg zwei hchst dubiose Gestrandete auf. Und...

A girl's imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.

The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine's gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing machines. Laurie's first impulse is to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story. And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to become a slayer of giants.

As Laurie embellishes...

A modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay, by award-winning author Iain Lawrence.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to forage, fish, and scavenge the shore for supplies. Chris likes the company...