Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Historical - Exploration & Discovery

Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man, who takes up a new life as a mercenary.

Eleven years after the greatest explosion on Earth, Mike Stout is hunted by an alien assassin. Can another alien, a rebel, keep him alive to save the world? Or will saving his cat and three friends from a corrupt sheriff risk it all?

Following a blast that killed his mother and brother, Mike wakes up as an orphan. Now having to fend for himself, he goes to work for his friend Charlie's dad. But Charlie's family have a secret and Mike's presence jeopardizes their future.

When a rebel from the same planet as the assassin adopts him and takes him to her base under Fort Niagara,...

New York City, November 14, 1889. Young newspaper reporter Nellie Bly sets sail on the Augusta Victoria for a trip around the world. She plans to beat Jules Verne's fictional record from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days. She thinks she can circumnavigate the globe in under seventy-five days and prove that a woman can do what no man has even tried. Hours later, and unbeknownst to Nellie, another writer, Elizabeth Bisland, boards a train going in the opposite direction attempting to beat Nellie back to New York. Elizabeth is a reluctant player in this high-stakes publicity stunt,...

Winner of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction

The story of a boy, a girl, their island, and how they saved it.

Wide as the Wind is the first novel to deal with the stunning, tragic history of Easter Island (VaitEa). It could be described as quest fiction for all ages in the line of Tolkien's The Hobbit, but it is set in the real world, not Middle-earth. Wide as the Wind portrays Polynesian journeys across the Pacific Ocean in canoes with no metal parts or instruments: the...