Two Jewish children, Benedict and Elvira, are suddenly orphaned after a pogrom in twelfth-century Yorkshire, England, shatters their contented and comfortable lives. Alone in a hostile world, they set out for Oxford, where they have relatives. Along the way they meet Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest. Many exciting adventures follow, including a hazardous journey to London with a Crusader knight

It is 1594 and young William Shakespeare is working on a new play, The Merchant of Venice, amid growing anti-Jewish sentiment in England. Three Jewish children try to save Queen Elizabeth s Jewish physician when he s falsely accused of spying for Spain. Not until Shakespeare meets the Fernandez family does he begin to see the prejudice around him. But will he soften his portrait of Shylock, his play s lead character? And can the children save the physician s life?"

When the Nazis take twelve-year-old Jan s family away, Jan finds shelter with friends. But a year in their attic becomes too much for him and he ventures into the dangerous streets of the city, where he finds refuge in the old Jewish cemetery and the tomb of Rabbi Loewe, who created a legendary giant the Golem to save his people from oppression in sixteenth century Prague. Jan travels back in time. Will he find a way to escape from the fate that was to befall a million and a half Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Europe?"