Plucked alive from among the dead bodies in a lifeboat and brought by ship to the port of Montreal in 1809, Peter figures, based on his size and colouring, that he is 15 or 16 years old and English. Named Peter by the crew of a passing ship, the boy remembers nothing of [...]
Every winter, the people of Ungava Bay collect mussels by walking on the bottom of the sea. This is the story of a young girl’s very first time climbing down onto the sea bed alone.
After cutting a hole through the sea ice with her chisel, Eva lowers herself down into the hole with her [...]
The only son of wealthy noble parents, sixteen year-old Silvano lives for hunting with his falcon, visiting the family farms with his father, enjoying the entertainments of Perugia with his best friend, Gervasio, and worshipping the beautiful Angelica from afar. But when Angelica’s husband is stabbed in the street with Silvano’s dagger, the young [...]
When thirteen year-old Jules makes a list of the talents of his best friend, Chris, and compares it to a list of his own abilities, the only thing he knows he excels at, by comparison with his intelligent, athletic, good-looking, quiet friend, is talking. So when he and Chris and their impulsive, wild-child sidekick, [...]
Eleven year-old Sabrina and seven year-old Daphne Grimm are descendants of Wilhelm Grimm, famed author of Grimm’s fairytales, and heirs to his legacy. Though the world believes that his fairytales are just made-up stories, it seems that Wilhelm did no more than write accounts of the fairy tale characters, or Everafters, whom he knew, [...]
When Peter notices the sailor’s reaction to an old trunk that is being loaded onto the Never Land, he becomes curious. Why does the sailor seem so happy when he touches the truck through the canvas that has been wrapped around it? Why does he seem reluctant to take his hand away?
Peter and [...]
For eleven-year-old twins, Jason and Julia Covenant, moving into Argo Manor, a rambling old house perched on a cliff over the sea in Cornwall, is the beginning of a strange and wonderful adventure. With their new friend, Rick Banner, they explore the many rooms of the house, particularly the odd tower room filled with [...]
In this final story of Allende’s trilogy, Nadia Santos and Alex Cold travel with his grandmother, Kate Cold, a writer for International Geographic, a photographer and a larger-than-life female pilot named Angie Ninderera into the heart of the African jungle at the behest of Brother Fernando, a Catholic missionary who is looking for two missionaries [...]
Commissioned by International Geographic to write an article about the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, writer Kate Cold decides to invite her 15-year-old grandson, Alex, and his Brazilian friend, 13-year-old Nadia, to accompany her to the fabled and inaccessible kingdom nestled high in the Himalayas. Alex and Nadia are delighted to be reunited after [...]
