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A boy with psychic powers struggles to save his loved onesWhen Davy's mother deserts their family, Davy's father packs his children into a rickety old car and takes them on a …

The first book of 'The Kin' quartet of prehistoric adventures, first published in a single hardback volume.

A former child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace in an African nation in this "e;rip-roaring adventure story"e; by a Carnegie Medal winner (Publishers Weekly). …

Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price.Samuel Barber is one …

Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the …

Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. …

Emma is spending the summer with her Scottish cousinswho are wonderful material for her attempt to win the School Prize for most interesting holiday diary. The cousins, lofty Andy, …

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women's comedic speech, literature, …

Can a child defeat a frozen giant and bring summer back to Apple Island? It's the last night of a family's holiday on a tropical island filled with black beaches, sweetfruit, and …

Can a child defeat a frozen giant and bring summer back to Apple Island? It’s the last night of a family’s holiday on a tropical island filled with black beaches, sweetfruit, and …

In this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat’s wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades …

In this "e;exceptional"e; British mystery by a Gold Dagger winner, an aging aristocrat and her longtime lover explore the dark events of their shared past (The Atlanta …