Andrew Donkin

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

"Stop. Mud person. Open these pages at your own peril... For they contain a world that, once seen, can never be unseen. The stories you grew up reading and believing to be just myth - the ones about demons and elves and gnomes? Those stories are very much real." -- back cover.

Explores the mysteries and legends associated with the Bermuda Triangle, an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico, where hundreds of boats and planes have vanished.

Profiles notable Olympic athletes who overcame the odds to win gold medals, including Jesse Owens, Shelley Mann, and Kerri Strug.

"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...

Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean, whereas Yuki lives in the far north of Canada, but both children feel the direct effects of climate change. Increasing temperatures mean rising sea levels that threaten Sami's home, and melting Arctic ice forces polar bears into Yuki's hometown looking for food. Sami and Yuki are desperate to save their homes, and their fight for survival leads them both on a life-changing journey....

Curated by the British Museum, this magnificent collection of city maps from around the world takes readers on city tours at unique moments in time, from ancient history to the present day, including the Athens of ancient Greece during the birth of democracy.

After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.

In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.