Nicola Barber
2) Rome
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history, culture, economy, and government of Rome.
3) Hong Kong
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history, culture, economy, and government of Hong Kong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This book examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs and their treasures, including the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Sumerian royal tombs of Ur, the Terracotta Army of ancient China, the Mayan tombs of Palanque, and the Oseberg ship burial.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The adventure continues in this third book of the epic multiplatform fantasy series.Erdas is a land of balance. A rare link, the spirit animal bond, bridges the human and animal worlds. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each have this gift-and the grave responsibility that comes with it.But the Conquerors are trying to destroy this balance. They're swallowing whole cities in their rush for power - including Meilin's home. Fed up with waiting and
...8) Lost cities
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lost Cities' examines the search for lost cities and the important artifacts within them that can offer us an extraordinary window on to the past.
9) Hunted
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 2
Language
English
Description
Journeying to the forests of Eura to confront another hidden Great Beast, four young heroes whose rare spirit animal bonds have shaped their quest to save the world are shatteringly betrayed by a familiar face.
10) 13 treasures
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger.
11) The finisher
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 1
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave, but that he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty Outliers. But just as deadly are the threats that exist within...
12) Extra yarn
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.
13) Wild born
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts--a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
14) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan, supported by their spirit animals, follow a lead in the cold North only to arrive in a deceptively beautiful village where everything is not as it seems.
Author
Language
English
Description
1876. Among the filth and depravity of Covent Garden's flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. It is a pitiful existence, made bearable only by each other's presence. When they become separated, the decision of a desperate woman sets their lives on very different paths. 1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and beauty of her native Lake District for London to...
16) White Rose
Author
Language
English
Description
"Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose, a group that wrote and distributed anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime and calling for action from their fellow German citizens. The following year, Sophie and her brother were arrested for treason and interrogated for information about their collaborators. This debut novel recounts the lives of Sophie and her friends...
17) Jackaby
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
19) I let you go
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jenna Gray moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident and desperate to heal from the loss of her child. At the same time, two Bristol police investigators try to get to the bottom of the hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them."--Back cover.
20) Against the tide
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 5
Language
English
Description
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts - a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children - and the world - have been changed for ever. Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and...