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Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the first installment in a brand-new, edge-of-your-seat series based on real events! In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash’s plane was shot down by Germans...

Si narra la storia di tre ragazzi che, nell’immediato dopoguerra, intraprendono un lungo viaggio alla scoperta dell’Italia dopo essere stati costretti ad abbandonare il loro povero villaggio fra le montagne. Da Roma alla costa adriatica, da Ferrara a Milano, i tre adolescenti vivono e fanno vivere ai lettori una profonda esperienza umana e sociale.

"استيقظت على صوت أمي وهي تصيح: «قم يا معتز.. فقد اتصلت السفارة بوالدك، ويجب أن نكون عند معبر رفح في تمام الساعة الواحدة ظهرًا، فقد تمت الموافقة على خروجنا». شعرت بصدمة شديدة ونظرت إليها غير مصدق، كنت أشعر بالارتياح كلما تَعرقَل موضوع خروجنا من غزة إلى مصر ومنها إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. فقد كنت أشعر بالخزي والخجل عندما يشار إليّ بأنني أحد الرعايا الأمريكيين، وأن جواز سفري الأمريكي يمنحني فرصة الخروج من جحيم الحرب على معسكر الاعتقال الشاسع الذي تحولت إليه غزة إلى الأمان والسلامة. ..."

Alfie the Doorstep Cat – star of the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller – is back in brand new ALFIE story for a younger readership. Alfie is everyone’s favourite cat. A big ball of grey fur who changes the lives of every family he meets. When the Clover family move into Alfie’s...

Twelve-year-old twin sisters Rada and Dariia Popkova couldn't be more different. Dariia is outgoing and chatty while Rada is quieter and artsy. But what they have in common is their love for each other and their home. The family lives in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is attacked by the Russians on Feb 24th, 2022. The attack separates the family—Dariia is with her mom and Rada with her dad.

When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a...

A thrilling WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side, Soviet forces on another. Soldiers fill the teahouses of Isfahan. Nazi spies roam the alleyways...

'A complete triumph of imagination . . . readers are going to fall in love with this brilliant series.' – A. F. Steadman, bestselling author of Skandar Action adventure meets the time travel of Doctor Who in the second title of this epic series by bestselling award-winner M. G. Leonard...

Alekos wants to be a mighty Greek soldier like Achilles! Despite being too small to fight, he stows away on a military ship. When an opportunity to ask his hero how to learn bravery and be a fierce warrior arises, will he be brave enough to take it?

Everyone knows about Paul Revere's midnight ride. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes that occurred along the way. Paul Revere comes to life in this meticulously detailed story of what he did before, between, and after his patriotic adventures. This timeless and witty work highlights little-known facts about patriot Paul Revere. A true American story by the Newbery-Honor winning author Jean Fritz!

Set to the tune of the same name, Yankee Doodle rides through the Revolutionary War spying on the Redcoats and cheering George Washington's troops on to victory.

La existencia apacible y hasta monótona de un pueblo, cambia de un momento a otro debido a la guerra. Los hombres se van a luchar, y desde entonces la vida es una lenta espera a través de los ojos de Laura, una niña reflexiva y disparatada que cree en el mar, en el futuro y en la paz, y...

It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya's father, start to make their presence known, an even greater threat takes over Sofiya's life.

Aunty Iris always treasured her small painting of a boat, painted by her close friend Alfie many years before. Her nephew, Michael, is inspired to try and find out what actually happened to Alfie in World War II. He embarks on a journey that takes him across the Channel into France, learning a profound lesson along the way about service and the surprising power of memory.

In Flanders' fields, young Martens knows his family's story, for it is as precious as the faded poem hanging in their home. From a poor girl comforting a grieving soldier, to an unexpected meeting of strangers, to a father's tragic death many decades after treaties were signed, war has shaped Martens's family in profound ways – it is their history as much as any nation's. They remember. They grieve. They honour the past.

Lix-tal: 10 Nede på gaden kører en tysk lastbil. På ladet står en flok danske politifolk. To tyskere vogter på dem. De peger på dem med deres våben. „Har tyskerne taget politiet?" Mor undrer sig. „Stakkels Ib!" siger Alex. „Hans far er politi!" „Åh ja." Mor går hen til deres telefon og ringer op. Lidt efter lægger hun på igen. „De svarer ikke hos Ibs! Så er hans far nok mellem dem, der er taget." „Kan du ikke gøre noget?" siger Alex. „Hvad skulle det være?" siger mor. „Du har en pistol," siger Alex ivrigt. Mor ser på ham. Nu er hun vred. „Hvad for en pistol?

It is 1911 and London's docks thrum with underhand deals, none so great as the arrival of a valuable, rare and exotic animal, smuggled from the depths of the Congolese rainforest. The baby gorilla stands to make one man, the shady Goliath Deeds, very, very rich – he and his right-hand man, juvenile pickpocket Toff Squabble. Heaven help anyone who dares stand in their way, not least the brave and innocent 12-year-old Nettie Beecroft, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous rescue attempt where she encounters toshers, bone-grubbers and gangsters. Whom can Nettie trust?

Nancy Brown is an ordinary girl living in the industrial town of Orethorpe at the outbreak of the Second World War. Her life suddenly changes when she is told to report to the mysterious Megg House, and soon she finds herself caught up in a top-secret operation to find German spies operating in the town.

Vulgar can't believe his luck. He's going on a school trip in a real, live longboat, with oars and everything! And they're going to visit Burp, where a long-ago battle once took place between the Vikings and the, er, Burpers. It was a mighty battle, which the Vikings totally lost. But this time, Vulgar's going to rewrite history. He's up for a bit of historical reenactment, and is sure, one way or another, that a great and noble victory will be his!

Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering, and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Indgar villagers are out watching an elk polo match, the village is attacked, and Thorfinn's mum goes missing, presumed kidnapped. Harald, Velda Thorfinn and his boisterous brothers chase the mysterious raiders across the North Sea towards Scotland.