Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - General

Newbery medalist Cynthia Voigt presents a rollicking mystery in three acts

Max's parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but sailing away, leaving Max with only a cryptic note, is unusual even for them. Did they intend to leave him behind? Have they been kidnapped?

Until he can figure it out, Max feels it's safer to keep a low profile. Hiding out is no problem for a child of the theater. Max has played many roles, he can be whoever he needs to be to blend in. But finding a job is tricky, no matter what costume he dons.

Ironically, it turns out...

Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider's web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before ...Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again.

Dive in to the ultimate tale of shipwreck and survival in this illustrated, finely crafted keepsake edition of the classic adventure story that has thrilled readers for nearly three centuries.

After a fierce storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is marooned on an uncharted island, with only a few bits of his wrecked ship's flotsam and jetsam to sustain him. For more than two decades, he faces the wrath of nature and the struggle to stay alive with little more than his wits to save him. Then, following an encounter with cannibals, a tribesman named Friday becomes Crusoe's only ally. As their...

Chris is the best boxer in the country. He's been picking on Ali for ages. Now Ali has to stand up for himself - just like his hero, Muhammed Ali. It's time to go in - and win?

Alice and Megan are back, and that can only mean one thing: trouble Alice decides to try and get her parents back together, but things don't go according to plan... The third book in Judi Curtin's bestselling series.

Cynthia Ann Parker may be the most famous of all of the people taken captive by Indians. Her story was loosely told in the John Wayne movie, "The Searchers," and has been retold in numerous books. She was raised and lived among the Comanche, was married to a chief of the tribe and her son, Quanah Parker, was the most famous of all of the Comanche leaders. Her story is one of the saddest from the Texas frontier. She was taken captive as a young girl and torn from her family. Then after she became acclimated to the Indian way of life and has her own family, she is once again torn from her...

This is an illustrated collection of favourite nursery rhymes known and loved throughout Ireland. It includes favourite international, British and Irish rhymes as well as special Irish favourites.

Sixteen-year-old Nick Brynner is thrust into prehistoric Africa to make a wrenching judgment - whether to save our genetic ancestors, the real-life -Adam- and -Eve- whose genes survive in all of us - or to consider saving the planet, and resetting human history, by eliminating this pair and trying again. Even as he fights for survival in a hostile environment, Nick and his ally Eleanor Terrell must struggle with the competing demands of love, humanity, civilization, and the pristine wild. This is a teen time-travel thriller that combines pulse-pounding excitement with big questions about our...

Everyone in first year is really excited about the big prize in the English essay competition - four months in France - and Alice has a good chance of winning. Megan loves writing essays, but she doesn't want to go away for four months alone. She doesn't want Alice to go either. But Alice seems determined to win.

Experience the adventure, mischief, and mayhem once again in this second book in the Caribbean Adventure Series.

Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692, but that does not stop Mark, Kyle and their pet monkey Chee Chee from having an adventure there during their summer in Jamaica. The children once again find themselves in the past. This time they team up with Henry Morgan, a famous pirate, on an adventure that takes them to Venezuela where they have to destroy a fleet of Spanish ships to save their lives.

About Port Royal

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Join Mark, Kyle and Ingrid on their very first adventure as they follow a mischievous monkey through a secret passage at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park in St. Kitts.

They find themselves transported to the 18th century, captured as spies and thrown into a fierce battle between the British and the French for this famous fort.

About Brimstone Hill

Brimstone Hill is a UNESCO world heritage site located in St. Kitts. It was built by the English in the early 18th century to defend the island. It stands today as one of the best preserved...

The Crystal Navigator is the story of eleven year old Lucy Nightingale, who loses her confidence in school and goes on a magical, perilous adventure back in time where she meets five famous artists, and regains her confidence. Children will fly back to the fifteenth century with Lucy and her funny Wise One, Wilbur, a Corgi. They will accompany Lucy and Wilbur every step of the way through a whirlwind adventure: escaping a knife-wielding ogress by jumping into a painting, seeing the real Lisa of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, touching the Sistine ceiling, and being marooned inside Vincent van Gogh's...

Norse, of Course The Great Void to Asgard is an illustrated story for children. Read along as Heimdall tells the beginning story - the evolution of the Norse ancestors, and about Ymir the frost giant, a jealous adversary. Learn about the Aesir-Vanir war, the formation of Asgard, and how the Norse people began.

The Norse, of Course book series for children is Norse mythology retold as historical fiction in this original fully illustrated series. The stories are based on the Eddas and Sagas. Modernized in fun rhyme with whimsical pictures, each book in the series features the Norse...

Ancient castles, yummy French food and deep, dark forests - sounds like the perfect holiday! Megan's really looking forward to the summer holidays - her whole family is going to France, and best of all Alice is coming too! But when Alice tries to make friends with a local French boy things begin to get very interesting ...Another adventure with Alice and Megan - the fifth book in the bestselling series popular with young girls everywhere.

Eighteen year-old Andy Logan has finally made it to his first year og college, but not without some struggle. As he tries to settle in this new environment, he cannot help but recall the events and experiences that have led him there.
It is in these recollections that we meet a vast array of people--those who had either helped Andy along the way or had threatened his hope to escape. These are the stories of his hope to escape. These are the stories of his great-uncle, the one person who seemed to understand him; his father, who domineering presence and unwavering anger were the rules, not...

When orphan Nona Fells goes to England to live with her aunt's family, she is homesick for the India she left behind. But when two dainty Japanese dolls arrive at Nona's doorstep, everything begins to change.

Jan and Jenny are off to visit Jan's aunt and uncle in Missouri, and on their way to the airport Jan is told something that is a huge surprise She is related to none other than the notorious Jessie James Jenny is really excited because she had read that the James brothers hid their treasure somewhere near Dragon Lake, and Jan's aunt and uncle own a cabin right on that very lake The girls decide that when they get to their destination they will go treasure hunting And when she is given an antique photograph of Jessie James, she is surprised to see how much they look alike. Once again, this...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system
Goal Jack and Annie have tickets to one of the most exciting soccer games ever--the 1970 World Cup They are sure the famous soccer player Pele will tell them a "secret of greatness." The game is nonstop action and the stands are packed. But how will they find Pele in a crowd of 100,000 soccer fans? Have they failed their mission? Or will the answer come when they least expect it?
Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #52, the title of this book is...

In the summer of 1967, Cyrus Nygerski, nineteen and "the best left-handed second baseman in Wisconsin," unsuspectingly meets his first werewolf.
Six hours later, she is sitting next to him in Comiskey Park, watching the Red Sox play the White Sox on August 27th, but by the time Boston outfielder Jose Tartabull fires his famous, game-winning throw to home, the mysterious beauty is suddenly disappearing into the crowd. Nygerski is frantic. The next morning he reads about her in a Chicago paper, though not by name: there's no mention of Cassandra Paine-only of a vicious murder back in...