Warring Norsemen, treasure hidden on Oak Island, and mystical adventures on the Irish Isles. Journey through time with the historical adventures in this special four-book collection. <br/> <br/> Includes: <br/> <br/> <i><b>Broken Circle</b></i> <br/> Jesse, a twelve-year-old boy of Native American descent, grudgingly follows through with his deceased father’s request that he ...
Nominated for the 2019 Red Maple Fiction Award When Tristan’s dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him – but will Tristan’s talents save him if it turns out to be a trap? Thanks to his dad’s coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like they’re security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when h ...
Painting a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America, long before European colonization changed the face of the continent, the Algonquin Quest novels show the traditions, the legends and the intrigue that shaped the First Nations. For Mahingan and his family, caught in the middle of a defining conflict with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), warfare is a part of life, but so are the natural world and the rich web of culture he shares wit ...
Mackenzie – just “Mac,” thanks – is a regular fourteen-year-old girl, until a school trip to Paris leaves her tangled up with a cast of shadowy characters, crazy cabbies, and … are those real-life <i>gargoyles?</i> <br/> <br/> That’s just the beginning for Mac and her zany friends, whose adventures whisk them all around France. From a dizzying encounter on top of Notre Dame Cathedral to a cutthroat race to Marseille (try ...
Presenting both of Little Jane Silver's piratical adventures in one special bundle! Little Jane Silver is the granddaughter of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on her parents' ship, she vows to become a real pirate. As her ship is pursued by a mysterious pirate hunter, and on her own for the first time, Little Jane must grow up fast and find the courage to undergo the most important test of her young life: a quest to ...
In Strandvoort gehen Diebe um! Bei einem Einkauf im Supermarkt horen Nick, Leni und Albert, wie sich Kunden uber Fahrraddiebstahle unterhalten. Kurz darauf wird am Strand Alberts Handy gestohlen und auch andere Gaste beschweren sich uber entwendete Gegenstande. Ohne auch nur eine Sekunde zu zogern, beschlie?en die drei, in diesem Fall zu ermitteln und die dreisten Diebe dingfest zu machen. Doch diesmal kommen die Strandspurnasen nicht richtig w ...
At the beginning of the American Revolution, Justus Sherwood left his young family in order to serve with the King's forces, first with General Burgoyne on his disastrous invasion of New York. He was soon appointed Supervisor of Spies and Prisoner Exchanges, and from his «Loyal Blockhouse» on Lake Champlain he sent out raiding parties and spying missions to harass the rebels in New York and England. ...
An exciting journey seen through the eyes of the Algonquin people. This book paints a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America before the arrival of Europeans. The novel follows the story of Mahingan and his family as they live the traditional Algonquin way of life in what is now Ontario in the early fourteenth century. Along the way we learn about the search for moose and the dramatic rare woodland buffalo hunt, conflicts with o ...
Bjorn Einarsson und sein Schwiegervater, der danische Heerfuhrer Ragnar Lodbrok, haben dem Frankenkaiser Karl dem Gro?en 7000 Pfund Silber als Losegeld fur Paris abverlangt. Danach trennen sich ihre Schiffe an der Mundung der Seine. Ragnar fahrt nach dem Norden zuruck, Bjorn fahrt weiter nach Suden. Er erobert Santiago de Compostela, befiehlt den Sturm auf Ceuta. Und dann – kaum ist die Beute an Bord gebracht – blaht der Wind erneut die Segel de ...
