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Young Cedric lives with his widowed mother in New York. His late father was a British earl who had been disowned by his father for marrying an American. As all of the earl of Dorincourt's sons have now died, he begrudgingly looks to Cedric as his sole heir. While the earl soon comes to love the endearing little Cedric, conflict arises when a strange woman appears on the scene and insists that her son is the true heir.

One minute the guys are wrestling around in Joe's room. The next minute The Book has transported them back to ancient Rome—and face-to-face with one big ol' gladiator. Luckily, Joe, Sam, and Fred, the Time Warp Trio, have seen enough professional wrestling to make it through gladiator...

The Time Warp Trio is back, and up to hieroglyphic high-jinks in the land of pyramids and Pharaohs! When Joe's sister Anna accidentally opens The Book, Joe, Sam, and Fred suddenly find themselves in ancient Egypt. Soon the Time Warpers are dodging crocodiles on the Nile, outwitting the evil high...

You probably know that Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Did you know that he also invented an early version of a helicopter and a tank, and that he planned to execute the Time Warp Trio for spying on his inventions? Sam's bright idea to look for the inventor of the Book takes the guys to...

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, author Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the story of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history and foundation for the Allied victory in World War II.

Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel could care less about adventure and they really do not like excitement. They’d rather be watching television. Unfortunately for them, their thrill-seeking parents have dragged them from continent to continent their entire lives. But when their...

When the Germans march into Poland in 1941, the Balickis’ happy family life is shattered. With their parents taken away by Nazis, Ruth, Edek and Bronia are forced to fend for themselves in the dangerous, war-ravaged city of Warsaw. When Edek is captured too, the girls are desperate. Then they meet orphaned street urchin Jan, who carries with him a talisman of hope: a silver sword paperknife that they recognise as having belonged to their mother. Realising that their parents may still be alive, Ruth and Bronia set off on an epic journey to Switzerland to search for them. 

Wolfram, Page auf Burg Wildenstein, und sein Freund Ansgar, der bereits Knappe ist, müssen eine wichtige Botschaft für Baron Wildenstein überbringen. Doch dabei werden sie von Raubrittern überfallen. Ansgar wird gefangen genommen und Wolfram kann fliehen. Ihr Burgherr ist nicht bereit, das geforderte Lösegeld zu bezahlen, doch Wolfram tut alles, um seinen Freund zu befreien. Alfred Bekker wurde am 27. September 1964 in Borghorst/Nordrhein-Westfalen geboren und ist heute bekannt als Autor von mehr als 350 Romanen. A. Bekkers Schaffen ist in einer Vielzahl literarischen Gattungen vertreten.

Das wertvolle Buch mit den sieben Siegeln, das für Graf Gernot bestimmt war, ist verschwunden. Wer will, dass Baron Wildenstein dadurch bei seinem Herrn in Ungnade fällt? Wolfram, Ansgar und Maria, die als Page, Knappe und Küchenmädchen auf Burg Wildenstein leben, stellen während eines großen Ritterturniers den hinterlistigen Verschwörern eine Falle. Es gelingt ihnen, die Schuldigen, einen neidischen Ritter, einen Burgmann und einen Abortreiniger, an der Flucht zu hindern, sodass sie ihrer gerechten Strafe nicht entkommen.

She is a girl three inches tall with eyes like drops of dew. Her clothes are cut from handkerchiefs and stitched with spider silk. For half of her life, she has been trapped in a birdcage while her giant kidnapper sits beside her, writing a leather-bound book the size of a house. Her name is Lily, and tonight she is escaping. She is going home. To Lilliput. Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clockmakers and very talkative parrots.

Nick Hodges had always been a troublesome boy. Growing up an orphan in his Uncle Jack’s care in a small New England town wasn’t easy. Everyone was a little wary, a little watchful - a little too watchful. One day, while Nick is walking in the woods, a neighbor thinks she sees him miles from where he actually is. Soon a series of events reinforcing Nick’s hotheaded reputation unfold. The incidents become increasingly serious until, finally, Nick is the scapegoat for a much more sinister crime, one that he wouldn’t even think of committing.

The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip the orphan and Perfect the stone gargoyle find themselves up to their eyebrows in it all! What is the king's man really doing at Wickit? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? And will the Beautiful Norse girl find Johan Shortleg's long-lost buried treasure?

Lukas has been apprenticed to work for Emperor Rudolph II. The reclusive emperor collects wonders from around the world, all crammed into four rooms. Not everyone is charmed by his eccentricity though, and when a group of diplomats arrives, sent by the King of Spain, Lukas senses danger. But if he is to protect the great Bohemian from tyranny Lukas must first learn the true meaning of trust, honour and friendship.

It is AD 43. Aoife has just escaped slavery in Rome. Now she has a dream: to return to her homeland, Britannia. But Aoife is valuble. Her uncle leads the British rebellion against Rome, and the Emperor himself wants her as a hostage. As the Roman army prepares to set sail to crush the rebellion, Aoife finds herself alone among enemies.

When a mummy is stolen from the Natural History Museum, Kit and her friends are fast on the heels of a villainous East End mob, an adventure that takes them to the heart of the Western Desert. But as the story reaches its climax in a temple, the villains and Kit finds they have underestimated a stronger force - the terrible power of Ancient Egypt....

Jack, standing among the war graves, sees a face he recognises. Suddenly, it’s 1914 again and he’s a young lad back in the trenches. Visions of killing and misery come to him with horrible clarity. But then Jack remembers, too, the incredible moment when the guns fell silent for a short time, and fighting gave way to football on the frozen ground of No-Man’s-Land. This amazing story shows that even in times of conflict and extreme sadness, there is always hope.

When schoolboy super-sleuth Henry Hunter uncovers a clue about the legendary Beast of Snagov, the origin of all vampires, he and friend Dolf travel to Whitby and Romania on its trail. Unravelling clues from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the legend of Vlad the Impaler, they encounter Dracula’s daughter, Bella Dracula. But is she a friend or a foe? And can the trio evade the sinister forces that are tracking their every move, intent on releasing the beast from its underground tomb?

Freydis has been left for dead following a raid on her father's Viking stronghold. Her brother has been taken prisoner. Now Freydis's father is bent on revenge, and takes her on his quest, giving her Enno, an African warrior slave, to protect her. As the hunt for her brother becomes more desperate, Freydis and Enno draw closer together.

Cato Hopkins is the youngest member of Mother Hopkins's family - a group of fraudsters who roam the streets of London. But old age is slowing down Mother Hopkins and she wants to carry out a final con - and so the gang set about bringing ruin upon cruel slave master Captain Walker.

"Kidnapped" is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney. A sequel, "Catriona", was published in 1893.