In the 1347th year of Our Lady the engineers of Concord defeated the fractious city-state of Rasenna using the magical science of Wave Technology. The City of Towers fought back, and for a while Concord's plans for domination were halted. But First Apprentice Torbidda regrouped, and reformed Concord[...]

Aidan Abet knows the key to surviving at school - it's making himself indispensable to the teacher. Unfortunately there's something distinctly odd about new teacher Miss Vowel and her menagerie of animals. It almost seems that the animals are warn Aidan of danger...Should Aidan help the animals, or [...]

Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow capped mountains. It sees the divine in rocks and streams communing with spirit worlds through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between cracks in city paving stones. Structu[...]

Winner of Tony Thistlethwaite Award for best consumer health book by the Medical Journalist's Association. How can it be that even with all the advances modern healthcare has made, we're experiencing record levels of ill health - from diabetes, heart disease and cancer, to osteoporosis, dementia and[...]

Lucy's life is being made hell by Melanie Prosser and her bullying sidekicks - the present takers - who threaten her every day at school for presents and money. Too ashamed to tell her parents, and too scared to tell her teacher, Lucy finds an unexpected ally in Angus Burns.[...]

Jacob Todd is abroad on his own for the first time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in Amsterdam. There, he meets Geertrui, an ill old lady, who tells a story of love and betrayal, which overturns Jacob's view of himself and his country, and leads[...]

Presents two stories "Breaktime" and "Dance on My Grave". In "Breaktime", Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. In "Dance on My Grave", life in his seaside town is uneventful for Hal Robinson, nothing unusual[...]

Læsedagbogen er et nyttigt redskab til alle, der læser! Idéen med en læsedagbog er at give overblik, hvor meget og hvad eleverne læser - i skolen og i fritiden. Idémanden bag - den engelske forfatter Aidan Chambers - mener, at med en læsedagbog får man en slags log over, hvad[...]

Hal är 16 år och har nyligen flyttat till en turistort vid engelska kusten med sina föräldrar. Han har haft svårt att få nya vänner, men träffar snart den två år äldre Barry som visar Hal hur spännande livet faktiskt kan vara. Barrys behov att utmana ödet både skrämmer och trollbinder[...]

Jacob Todd är i Amsterdam för att besöka sin farfars grav. Och självklart vill han se Anne Franks hus när han är i stan. Om sin farfar vet Jacob nästan ingenting. Men han träffar Geertrui som när hon var ung vårdade hans farfar som sårats under kriget. Hennes berättelse är fylld av dram[...]

Ett slags trolleri som händer inne i huvudet det är vad litteratur är, enligt en tioårig pojke citerad i denna bok. Men för många människor är den magiska världen stängd. Trots att de har knäckt läskoden läser de ogärna böcker. Att lära sig läsa är en sak, att bli en aktiv läsar[...]