2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award – Shortlisted A boy is thrown into the middle of history’s biggest war. Fatherless and penniless, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller wants a bike, so Mr. Black, the baker hires him to help with deliveries. Mr. Black entertains him with army stories and teaches him Morse code. He invites Richard to attend the opening ceremonies of the local 1939 military camp. Infatuated with army life, Richard takes part in Army t ...
Commended for the 2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre, short-listed for the 2008 Red Maple Award "You know how it is when you get a feeling that something big is going to happen? Well, it wasn’t like that for me. In fact, that Thursday started out like any other day." With these words, Sarah Gilmore begins the remarkable story of what happened when she and her mother, Maggie, suddenly found themselves recipients of an unusual inherita ...
After his «wonderful airship» crashes near St. Francis of Assisi's Home for Foundlings in Quebec City, Ben Franklin is thrown slightly off course in his carefully laid plan to coax Canada into joining the Americans in their fight against England's rule. A motley crew of orphans hides the famous inventor from the British Redcoats during the American War of Independence. One of these orphans, 16-year-old Michael Flynn, is deaf and was a ...
Plots, shots, flight, pursuit – all are part of this story from the exciting chapter in America’s history when thousands of Loyalists fled to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries. Twelve-year-old Ned Seaman tells this lively tale of his family’s perilous journey. Escape may be fiction, but Martha and Caleb Seaman and their children actually existed. ...
Der Olprinz ist ein Betruger, der einen Bankier um sein Geld bringen will. Winnetou und Old Shatterhand kommen dem «Olschwindel» auf die Spur; ihre Begleiter sind viele beruhmte Westmanner: Hobble-Frank, Tante Droll und das lustige «Kleeblatt» Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker. ...
Von Edirne aus reitet Kara Ben Nemsi mit Halef, Osko und Omar Ben Sadek neuen Gefahren entgegen. Abenteuer mit Schmugglern und Halefs groteskes Erlebnis in einem Taubenschlag stehen im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens. In Ostromdscha aber treffen die Freunde auf den «heiligen» Mubarek? ...
Братья-близнецы живут без забот до тех пор, пока папа не дарит мальчикам мобильные телефоны. Смартфон «похищает» одного из братьев. Смогут ли родители вызволить сына из виртуального плена? ...
Kruger Bei gehort zu Mays kauzigsten Gestalten und hat wirklich gelebt: Der Deutsche Kruger stand in den Diensten des Bei von Tunis als Oberst der Leibwache. Eine weitere Uberraschung erwartet den Horer: Bei der Verfolgung der Meltons gelangt der Apatschenhauptling Winnetou bis nach Afrika! ...
