Novedades

When Bucky McGuire travels by wagon train to his new home, he learns life lessons about family, love, faith, and hope. Eleven-year-old Bucky McGuire climbs aboard his family’s covered wagon and heads west in 1877. Wrapped in buffalo robes, young Bucky watches the new world unfurl before him and dreams of the possibilities of frontier life in post–Civil War Illinois. Bucky soon learns he will need every ounce of his considerable grit and good-heartedness to assist the McGuire clan in taming their new surroundings.

The cavemen kids first met the baby mammoth after the Mammoth Hunt and since the baby mammoth had nowhere to go it just followed the kids. The baby mammoth followed the kids back to the river where a heavy downpour upstream swelled the river and this wall of water came swirling towards the kids and the family. They were lucky the mammoth had started to run up the hill and kids and the tribe followed it. The tribe found a new cave to live in but they were in the territory of the Spotted Beast and the Spotted Beast came back for lunch but Grandpa was waiting and killed the Beast. The clan ...

1721. The slave trade ravages the West Coast of Africa. With his world turned upside down, and disillusioned with family and society, Dan Leake, now 16, gets together a disparate group of ex-pirates and runaway slaves. With this motley crew, Dan steals a ship and they flee from Jamaica. They sail to the coast of Africa where they plan to disrupt the African slave trade and get rich at the same time. Pursued by the navies of the powerful slaving nations, and hunted by vengeful pirates, Dan and his followers are forced from the Atlantic. Rounding the stormy Cape of Good Hope, they sail into ...

Now It Is Safe To Explore The New Forest Story So Far The Caveman Kids first meet the Baby Mammoth on the way home from the Mammoth Hunt. Then the Baby Mammoth saves the clan from the big storm that turns the stream into a Raging Wild River. Now the clan find a new cave to call home as they walk away from the river in the pouring rain. But they have walked into the territory of the Spotted Beast and the beast is hungry. When the spotted beast returns to the cave Grandpa is waiting and does exactly what The Great Hunter taught him when he was a little boy. The Neanderthal Family especially ...

WHAT IF YOUR KIDS LIVED IN A CAVE AT THE DAWN OF TIME! How did caveman kids survive and thrive when everything was stacked against them? The caveman kids and grandpa were always at the cave while their parents were out hunting or gathering food. After a successful mammoth hunt they bumped into a little lost baby mammoth and changed history. The baby mammoth had nowhere to go so she joined the herd and kept the kids happy and warm at night. They were now mobile and they had muscle power. This is only the beginning, we shell keep an eye on what the caveman kids get up to as the baby mammoth ...

Part mystery, part fantasy-adventure, part riveting real-life disaster, this deft tale-within-a-tale blends the history of the 1980 Lake Peigneur drilling accident with a fateful quest for pirate treasure.

A twelve-year-old boy searches for his father and fights for free press amid the chilling rise of Hitler’s Germany in this second book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided.

Thirteen-year-old Emma never wanted the gift of seeing Earthbound spirits. Her Grandma Helen told her she should use her gift to help others. Now that she is living in a haunted town, unexpected ghosts pop up everywhere she goes. Emma and her friends, Mark and Calliope encounter even more ghosts when they visit the lighthouse island to help solve the mystery of the ghost ship. Some of them are helpful, and other ones push Emma into very uncomfortable situations.

Ross Bentley has spent the past 12 months in hiding on the west coast of Ireland. He has turned his back on the Guild and his gifts. In trying to escape his past and the dangers brought with his gifts, Ross has spiraled into a world of anxiety and depression and, with Cathy leaving for Paris, Ross is completely alone. Suddenly an unexpected visitor arrives. Hunter has come to call in his favor. Through loneliness and a sense of debt, Ross agrees to join Hunter for one day only. What first appears to be a simple task becomes so much more.

It is 1911 and London's docks thrum with underhand deals, none so great as the arrival of a valuable, rare and exotic animal, smuggled from the depths of the Congolese rainforest. The baby gorilla stands to make one man, the shady Goliath Deeds, very, very rich – he and his right-hand man, juvenile pickpocket Toff Squabble. Heaven help anyone who dares stand in their way, not least the brave and innocent 12-year-old Nettie Beecroft, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous rescue attempt where she encounters toshers, bone-grubbers and gangsters. Whom can Nettie trust?

Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. On a raiding voyage to Scotland, Thorfinn and his friends Velda and Oswald are kidnapped by Ranald MacRanald, chieftain of the Clan MacRanald.

Crack open this volume to join Alphonse and Theudebald, troubadours turned dragon slayers, on a zany romp from 13th century France to the Medieval Mediterranean! Along the way meet pirates and spies and inventors. Visit exotic locales and encounter great men of history. Feel the thrill of getting hopelessly mired in a convoluted slough of Levantine politics. Tremble with the earth at the charge of toothy monsters. You’ll laugh a lot. You’ll cry a lot. And like real life adventures, you just might learn some valuable lessons along the way.

Summer, 1941: London evacuees Harry and Rosie Morton are looking forward to a summer exploring the Lancashire coast with their new friends – and learning to tango as a surprise for Mum’s birthday. Until the twins learn two things: their awful cousin, Jasper, is coming to stay. Worse still: Dad is returning to the Western Front.

Thirteen-year-old Emma never wanted the gift of seeing Earthbound spirits, but since she could see them, her Grandma Helen told her she should use her gift to help others. Now that she is living in a haunted town, unexpected ghosts pop up everywhere she goes. Emma and her friends, Mark and Calliope encounter the Earthbound spirit of a ruthless pirate at the beach. Emma has to figure out how to find out why he remains Earthbound so she can get him to cross over and leave the inn guests alone. Is there really a treasure buried nearby? Only the pirate knows the truth.

One boy’s journey. One family’s secret. One ship that changes everything. In 1585 Spain, fourteen-year-old Rafael Ortega dreams of sailing the seas, but when his family’s secret Jewish heritage is discovered by the Spanish Inquisition, Rafael is torn from his home and thrown aboard a galleon bound for the New World. Trapped in a world of storms, pirates, and betrayal, Rafael must navigate more than just the treacherous seas—he must find a way to survive and reunite with his family before it’s too late. As the Inquisitors tighten their grip on his loved ones and danger looms at ...

Bryn’s father, a mighty warrior, expects his son to follow in his footsteps, but this is a path Bryn is reluctant to tread. Bryn hates violence, a trait he shares with his mother, Eos, a gentle singer whose love for storytelling has deeply influenced him. For the Welsh of the Middle Ages, the looming threat from the Normans makes physical strength and weapon skills a necessity, yet Bryn is more captivated by the bards whose nightly tales and songs inspire him. When Bryn makes a surprising discovery, and a Norman fleet's menacing presence casts a shadow over his community, can he find a ...

Get ready for a thrilling journey through the ages with Teddy, a curious and lovable teddy bear! When a magical opportunity arises, Teddy embarks on a super-duper time-twisting escapade. Join him as he zooms through history, meeting fascinating people from bygone eras and making wonderful new friends along the way. This exciting adventure makes learning history fun and accessible for young listeners, sparking their curiosity about the past and showing them that even a teddy bear can be a brave explorer.

Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering, and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Indgar villagers are out watching an elk polo match, the village is attacked, and Thorfinn's mum goes missing, presumed kidnapped. Harald, Velda Thorfinn and his boisterous brothers chase the mysterious raiders across the North Sea towards Scotland.

Vulgar can't believe his luck. He's going on a school trip in a real, live longboat, with oars and everything! And they're going to visit Burp, where a long-ago battle once took place between the Vikings and the, er, Burpers. It was a mighty battle, which the Vikings totally lost. But this time, Vulgar's going to rewrite history. He's up for a bit of historical reenactment, and is sure, one way or another, that a great and noble victory will be his!

Velda is a small girl with a big axe, and she knows how to use it. Alongside her misfit crew, she's living her best Viking life, sailing the seas in her very own longship and teaching anyone who thinks she's 'just a little girl' a lesson. But when a raid on the vault of the treasure-obsessed Count Stollenberg goes wrong, Velda is forced into a deal to bring him the legendary Frost Hammer. The only teensy tiny issue is that it belongs to the Frost Giants, who are anything but teensy tiny.