When Rose Whittenhurst's father loses his prestigious Wall St. position, he moves the family to a mountainous village where neither cell phone service nor cable TV exists. While her parents are embracing village life, Rose is secretly swept back into the 1880s when she dons a necklace of mourning beads found in the attic. The Bradford sisters quietly encourage their young neighbor's sudden interest in history and anxiously await the results of her repeated trips back in time. Rose carefull...

Cosy up for Christmas with this festive story, starring everyone's favourite Victorian foundling, Hetty Feather!"Let me tell you about Christmas 1888, when I was twelve . . ."An unexpected gift leads to trouble for Hetty on Christmas Day at the Foundling Hospital, and the dreaded Matron Bottomly is delighted to have an excuse to exclude Hetty from the festive celebrations.Poor Hetty is distraught - but just when it seems that all i...

Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her third spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.Justice and her friends are third years now and there's an intriguing new girl in Barnowls. Letitia has never been to school before and doesn't care for the rules - and the teachers don't seem to mind! She decides that Justice is her particular friend, much to Stella and Dorothy's distress. But Letitia just isn't the...

This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic horse story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Black Beauty's friendship with Ginger, his treatment at the hands of his owners, and fascinating historical detail about how how horses had many different ...

Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past?London. 1878. Verity Sparks has an extraordinary talent: she can find lost things just by thinking about them. When she joins a Confidential Inquiry Agency, she discovers there is a mystery lurking in her own past and that unknown forces are working against her. It soon becomes clear that Verity and her friends are in great danger. Who doesn’t want them to lea...

Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are keen to show Aunt Fanny how much she means to them.Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog as they try to celebrate Mother's Day with Aunt Fanny. George has past form in forgetting - not least her mum's birthday and Christmas presents - so tensions a...

Rose Wood is almost thirteen and and lives in the Wood Briar Hotel, a cosy country guest house near the sea, which she helps run with her parents. But Rose, although favourite with all the guests and loved by her parents, feels very ordinary: she is clumsy and no matter how hard she tries, she can never improve her horse-riding skills, despite her great love for horses. And she always fails to impress Ben, a fifteen year old prodigy athlete, who comes every year with his family for summer ...

These ghostly adventures and spine-chilling stories are great for reads for reluctant readers. Written by well-known authors and illustrated by much-loved illustrators, this series will appeal to boys and girls.

Gems is a series of books written specifically for struggling girl readers. In this title Ella isn't your average girl. She dresses all in black, dyes her hair purple and will only answer to the name Midnight. When she has to babysit her princess loving sister, she's less than thrilled, especially when she has to read her a bedtime fairy tale story! All of a sudden, the two find themselves transported into a magical realm! Almost as if they have fallen straight into the story book pages. W...

Olive is an only child. She lives by the sea in a ramshackle old house with her mother, Mog, successful, busy and hardly ever at home. Olive is very pale and very quiet and she doesn't quite fit in. But she has a best friend, Mathilda, and that's what matters.And then Mathilda decides to be someone else's best friend.Just as life really can't get much worse, Pip shows up. Brash, loud Pip, who is everything that Olive is not, and is about to cause Olive a whole heap of troub...

What happened to Olive wasn't because she'd only ever felt half. It didn't even happen because her house was full of crap-knacks and clutter, because she called her mother Mog, or because she knew of a man named WilliamPetersMustardSeed. It wasn't because she had a peculiar relationship with the number two, or because her skin was the exact colour of chicken loaf. Although there was never any doubt that it was a shake-it-all-about hokey-pokey of all these things, what happened to Olive...

Tommy Brock, a badger, kidnaps the sons of Benjamin Bunny and disappears hiding in one of Mr. Tod's houses. Mr. Tod, came home and discovered the invasion starts a fight with Tommy. Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit take advantage of the confusion to rescue the young bunnies. Book illustrated with beautiful Potter's watercolors.