When Roman Centurion Crismus Bonus finds out about Getafix’s magic potion, he kidnaps the druid to force him to reveal the recipe, so Asterix joins his friend in captivity and together they plan to whip up a surprise with truly hair-raising effects.
Fiction
Fiction genre
Playing Beatie Bow
Disturbed that her mother could welcome back her unfaithful father, Abigail Kirk undergoes a mysterious voyage to nineteenth-century Australia, where her experiences help her to understand the power of love and to accept her father.
The Biggest Soap
When Kessy, who lives in the Truk Islands, is sent by his mother to buy laundry soap, he hurries back to listen to her storytelling, discovering that his own experience makes a good story too.
Smiling For Strangers
During the war, fourteen-year-old Nina flees from her village in Yugoslavia, armed only with some letters and a photograph, to search for an old friend of her mother’s in England.
The Foreshadowing
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.
The Bird Who Was an Elephant
A bird visits a colorful village in India, seeing a spice shop, a sacred cow, a snake charmer, and a palmist.
Traitor
A boy who believes his grandfather to be a traitor, a spy who turned against England and then disappeared, tracks down his grandfather and finds out the truth. Coauthored by Robert Rigby.
When Batistine Made Bread
Six-year-old Batistine makes her own breakfast by milking the cow and baking bread from scratch.
Kiss The Dust
Her father’s involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.
The Silence In The Mountains
When his family leaves their war-torn country to come to live in America, a young boy has trouble adjusting, until his grandfather helps him find what he had missed most.