Giorgia, Giacomo e Gaia sono amici inseparabili! Durante il camposcuola sull'isola di Ischia faranno una scoperta straordinaria... La collana Italiano Facile per ragazzi, indirizzata alla fascia d'età 11-14 anni, propone una serie di racconti originali e motivanti che permettono ai ragazzi non madrelingua di scoprire il piacere di leggere in italiano. Ogni racconto è integrato da test di comprensione, esercizi, attività didattiche. Insieme al libro è disponibile un CD audio contenente una brillante recita

Collins My First Book of Science Enter the wonderful world of how things work: great inventions and discoveries, technical wizardry and marvelous medicine. An ideal first reference book for 5-7 year olds Explains key concepts in clear, accessible text Full of fun facts Packed with colourful diagrams and photographs Makes learning fun!

Collins My First Encyclopedia My First Encyclopaedia is packed full of fun facts and engaging illustrations. Curious, young readers can learn about everything from the human body to ancient civilizations. -An ideal first reference book for 5-7 year olds. -Explains key concepts in clear, accessible text. -Full of fun facts. -Packed with colourful diagrams and photographs. -Makes learning fun.

A blind girl and a unicorn in a world where magic and reality merge together. Can Laura save the Wild Ones and take them to the safety of the Bright Wilderness? Laura is blind, but though she cannot see, she is an acutely perceptive child. As soon as she climbs onto the unicorns back she is hurled into a wild and magical world. Though a contemporary child, living in a contemporary setting, Spellhorn and the Wild Ones see Laura as their leader and they know that only through Laura can they reach the safety

A charming series of adventures for younger readers, featuring a family of all sorts of animals that live in the farmyard behind the tumble-down barn on Mudpuddle Farm Six fantastic stories in one volume! Mossops Last Chance: Theres mice in my barley sacks, theres rats in my roof and now theres mice in the corn bin. This time Ive had enough. If you arent up to the job, you will have to go. Mossop the old farm cat likes to sleep and not much else! So when Farmer Rafferty tells him to catch twenty-six mic

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orions stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power of the moons axe and each seek their own refuge at Mow Cop. Can those they love so intensely keep them clinging to reality? Or is the future evermore destined to reflect the past?

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and

The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shans international best-selling vampire saga, with illustrations by Japanese artist Takahiro Arai. Compelled by his loyalty to Mr Crepsley, Darren Shan, the vampires assistant, agrees to prove his worthiness to the vampire clan by undertaking a series of trials. Each Trial is set by the Vampire Princes to test agility, cunning and intelligence. Failure means death. While their attention is focused on Darren, the vampire clan fail to notice that the vampaneze have inf

The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shans international best-selling vampire saga, with illustrations by Japanese artist Takahiro Arai. Betrayed and alone, the vampires assistant, Darren Shan, finds himself branded a traitor and hunted by the clan. Will Darrens failure to complete the Trials mean banishment for Mr Crepsley and execution for himself? Or can Darren return to the home of the damned and exact revenge? But there is more than revenge at stake the vampire clan must combat the rise of the Vamp

A charming series of adventures for younger readers, featuring a family of all sorts of animals that live in the farmyard behind the tumble-down barn on Mudpuddle Farm Two fantastic stories in one volume! Jiggers Day Off: Time has come for harvest, Jigger. So I shant be needing you all day. Its your day off, my dear. Jigger the sheepdog has just one day off a year. Just one day to chase all those little animals hiding in the corn. But even the best plans go wrong And Pigs Might Fly!: Flying was not near

Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison discovers the dinner service in the attic, with its curious pattern of floral owls, a chain of events is set in progress that is to affect everybodys lives. Relentlessly, Alison, her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are drawn into the replay of a tragic Welsh legen

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear

Read the story of Jim Jarvis, the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous childrens homes. Now published into the Essential Modern Classics list. When his mother dies Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse, but quickly escapes chosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Struggling to survive, Jim finally finds some friends only to be snatched away and made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick, constantly

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear

'Do you ever think about being born? No, I don't either. But what I do think is this - did my mother want me? James' parents are proud of his talent and determination - he's in training for the Junior National Diving Championship. For James, diving is everything. Until he looks at the snake-stone and is drawn into thinking about his birth mother, and where she might be. He knows that to work out his future, he needs to make sense of his past.

A powerful story set in Nazi occupied Denmark in 1943. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best-friend, Ellen a Jew. It is 1943 and for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen life is still fun school, family, sharing fairy stories with her little sister. But there are dangers and worries too the Nazis have occupied Copenhagen and there are food shortages, curfews and the constant threat of being stopped by soldiers. And for Annemarie the dangers become

New edition of the Smarties-Prize-winning story from the former Childrens Laureate. Now published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another a

Bianca and Bernard, agents for The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice, rescue prisoners and outwit villains in this enchanting story, made world-famous by the Walt Disney film. The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice discusses the proposed rescue of a Norwegian poet from the terrible Black Castle. Miss Bianca, the pet white mouse belonging to the Ambassador's son, is sent to Norway on a mission to recruit the bravest Norwegian mouse she can find. She finds Nils, and brings him back triumphantly. Then she, Nils, an

How can you tell if a persons a witch? asks Theo. It isnt easy, but there is a way. Witches tears turn to crystal as soon as they fall. Only thing is, witches dont cry, or hardly ever. A new edition of this wonderfully atmospheric novel published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers. In a whirl of rainy weather, a strange woman appears on Theo and Dodies doorstep making Theo very uneasy. His mother and little sister do not seem at all alarmed by her. Dodie loves Mrs Sca

A sick young boy is offered a chance at life and finds himself in the midst of a medical controversy accept a transplant of a pig's heart, or die? Cameron is offered the chance to have a highly experimental and controversial operation which might save his life. But replacing his heart with one from a pig brings not only medical risk, it places Cameron at the eye of a storm of controversy.