After Josie’s soldier husband is killed in battle, the animals who inhabit her magical world help her cope with grief by locking away her sorrows.
Europe
Materials from Europe
Let’s Get Lost
As she acts out the role of ” Mean Girl”- at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend-sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother’s death.
Digory The Dragon Slayer
Digory, a gentle boy who likes to spend time alone in the forest and make up songs to sing, accidentally becomes a knight and reluctantly sets off to rescue damsels in distress, slay dragons, and marry a princess.
Green Jasper
Having returned to a politically unstable England after the Crusades, brothers Will and Gavin–with the help of the red horse Hosanna–attempt to rescue their friend Ellie who is being held prisoner by an enemy of King Richard I.
Thomas : Book Three Of The Deptford Histories
Two country mice are tricked into boarding a ship and embark on an adventure during which they try to keep a fragment of a jade egg from falling into the hands of those who wish to use it to return the evil known as Gorscarrigern to the world.
The Moneylender’s Daughter
In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now 16 years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family’s fortune, while 14-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father’s decree that she marry a wealthy, elderly Englishman.
Frozen Billy
Left in the care of an n’er-do-well uncle, siblings Clarrie and Will devise an elaborate plan involving ventriloquist’s dolls, costumes, and forged boarding passes to reunite their separated family.
The Death Collector
Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
The Moon Of Gomrath : A Tale Of Alderley
With the help of the wizard Cadellin, Colin and Susan struggle to contain the forces of evil unleashed by the inadvertent awakening of the band of ancient horsemen known as the Wild Hunt.
Harriet Bean And The League Of Cheats
Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.