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Meet Archibald Winston Spinks. The year is 1973 and never having left the UK before, young Archie sets sail aboard the SS Kioni for a three month voyage around the world.

A young boy faces adversity from classmates when he wears an orange dress at school.

It's September 12th, 2001, and New York City is at a standstill: somber, bleak and shocked in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks.

Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and sta

When an attempt is made to kidnap the only daughter of the Sultan of Kharram and his English wife, Jessica Jones of Special Branch is appointed to protect the girl.

Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.

The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief—as love shimmers the edges.

Raised by her mother's former nanny, eighteen-year-old Ella learns that she is, in fact, one of the Polmars of Porthminster Hall.

A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.

When pretty, young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits his cafe, Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He becomes an instant star on a TV quiz, and his cookery books are best-sellers.

When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear o

In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all.

Mia's love life is a disaster - and her being heir to the throne of Genovia sure doesn't help. Because while Mia's finally got herself a boyfriend, he's SO not the right guy.

Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australi