Bess grew up in Martinborough, happy and healthy and surrounded by other horses in grassy paddocks. Things changed for Bess .....
This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader through the years and world’s conflicts from 1918 to the present in Kasmir, .....
Britain is at war. London children need to be evacuated for their safety, but Ada’s mother says she’ll have to .....
16 years have passed. Hester and Tom have lived happily at Anchorage raising their daughter Wren. Wren has grown up .....
Christopher Larkin is in a London bomb shelter in the middle of the Blitz, while his mum is outside serving .....
This is a tale of Moby Dick tipped on its head. Bathsheba is the key character in this story. She’s .....
Thousands of refugees are fleeing the Russian Army near the end of World War II in East Prussia. Germans, Lithuanians, .....
Francis has just turned 90. A party is thrown for him by his whole French village. He enjoys the celebrations, .....
Hundreds of thousands of animals were part of WWI and WWII. Horses, dogs, cats, monkeys, a tortoise, donkeys and pigeons .....
Twins Anders and Rayna live in a world of dragons and wolves – ice wolves to be exact. These wolves .....
Flossie is only 12 but has a very important job. She is the Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery in London. WWII .....
Just when Claude and Syd are planning to celebrate their latest mission, news arrives that their comrades in the White .....
Matt Turner has gone to stay with his grandparents on their dairy farm. His mum is on bed rest in .....
This story is told in diary format by a young 12 yr old boy (Ewen) in 1942-1943, when New Zealand .....
The first thing that struck me reading this novel set in Poland in the 1940’s, was the beautiful use of .....
Spectacular writing, but I have to admit I skipped over some of the aircraft bits that were a little slow. .....
Insurgent begins where Divergent left off – where Tris and Tobias have escaped after stopping the simulation that turned whole .....
Mark, Anna, Ben and little Tracey are waiting in the bus shelter for their school bus when they begin to .....
The language used in this larger font novel is excellent aussie lingo, and would be great for reluctant boy readers. .....
10 yr old Annemarie’s city of Copenhagen has had armed German soldiers standing on street corners for three years. Her .....
Hanna was going to be a concert pianist just like her idol Clara Schumann. Everything was going to plan until .....