Goody Hall is a house full of mysteries. What happened to young Willet Goody's father? What secrets does Alfrieda the Gypsy medium conceal? What does Mrs. Goody do on her mysterious visits to the city? Are the tales of the thief Mott Snave only legend, or is he all too real? Hercules Feltright, Willet's tutor and an actor with a great love of Shakespeare and a terrible memory for lines, must live up to his heroic name and solve the mysteries of Goody Hall. A hilarious and stylish tale that will amuse adults as much as kids. By the author of Tuck Everlasting.

One thousand years ago Greenlanders came to North America, searching for timber to build ships, and soon came in conflict with the native inhabitants, the Osweet. When an Osweet boy is killed by a Greenlander, fourteen-year-old Thrand is taken from the Greenlanders' camp in retaliation. As he moves from prisoner to member of the community, Thrand finds his loyalties increasingly divided between past and present. Eventually, Thrand must decide who he is and where he belongs.

For reasons best known to himself, the villainous Captain Scratch has kidnapped young Oliver Finch. Roving the seas on a ship called the Bloody Hand with a band of cut-throat pirates is enough to terrify anyone, but Oliver keeps hold of his courage and his sense of humour. This comic tip of the hat to Treasure Island is another wild and woolly adventure from the Newbery Award-winning author of The Whipping Boy and Humbug Mountain.

Smith is a thief on the murky backstreets of eighteenth-century London. He is a clever thief - but this time the papers he has stolen (and cannot read) just might get him killed. Can he stay one step ahead of his pursuers? Is there anyone he can trust?

Jamie Monaghan is excited about the War. He would be overjoyed - if only it would come a little closer to Liverpool. When it does, Jamie's parents are determined to protect him by sending him to safety in Canada. So it is that Jamie finds himself with his arch-enemy, Tom Bleeker, and one hundred other evacuees on-board the City of Benares. But this ship will never reach Canada!

At fifteen, Andrew Stewart is apprenticed to the manager of a far-northern fur-trading post on the Hudson Strait. Andrew and his friend Pashak, a Neskapi Indian, are offered the chance to set up a fur-trading post on Ghost Lake. Their quest takes them through barren lands in a brutal winter, forcing them to fight hard for survival. Based on actual events. James Houston lived for many years in the far North and writes with respect of cultures not his own. Readers may also enjoy Tikta'liktak, Frozen fire and many others by this Canadian author.

After the blow of his mother's death, Ben Elliott is forced to move away to the small town of Ship Cove in Northern Newfoundland. His only consolation is the nearby presence of a Viking settlement at L' Anse aux Meadows. Remembering his mother's love for Viking mythology, Ben loses himself in an imaginary game of the past. As Tor, a Viking shipbuilder, he can forget the isolation and despair of his own life. Gradually though, Ben finds it difficult to distinguish between past and present, reality and dreams. He is playing a dangerous game.

"If the cat is still here when I get home from work this afternoon, I'll have no choice but to turn it in to the pound." Spencer knows his mother is serious. This calls for a desperate plan: Spencer decides to leave Seattle and go to live with his father in San Francisco. Armed with very little money and the belief that his father works for the Giants baseball team, Spencer begins a harrowing cross-country trek.

A soldier condemned for cowardice bargains boldly for his life; three warriors discover that there are some things worse than death; an unlucky samurai has one last chance to prove himself against a dragon! These are just a few of the exciting and amusing tales in this collection about the knights of ancient Japan.

Long ago in Cornwall, there were those who prayed for shipwrecks. They made their living by scavenging from the drowned sailing ships. Sometimes they did more than pray: sometimes they lured the ships onto the rocks and made sure none of the crew lived to tell the tale. John Spencer is the youngest crewmember on the Isle of Skye. He survives the wreck; but how long can he escape the wreckers?

On the night before his twelfth birthday, Michael is lost at sea. Washed up on an apparently deserted pacific island, Michael does his best to survive with only his dog for company. Sometime during a desperate night of cold and hunger, someone leaves food and water near Michael's cave: he is not alone after all. A story of survival and friendship for all those who enjoyed Theodore Taylor's The Cay.

Robbie is certain the world is going to end. It is 1899, and with the days ticking down toward the end of the century, Judgement Day looms large on the horizon. Robbie decides to give up his failing efforts to be a Christian his father can be proud of and to have as much fun as possible before the end is nigh. The results are both exciting and hilarious.

In 1883 Professor William Waterman Sherman sets out across the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon. Three weeks later he is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean on a piece of wreckage once held aloft by twenty balloons. What happened in between? A little visit to an island called Krakatoa and one crazy adventure. As riveting as anything penned by Jules Verne and a good deal funnier.

Count Karlstein is the wicked uncle to end them all. He is determined to abandon his two nieces to Zamiel, the Demon Huntsman and get his mitts on their inheritance. However, the two young girls are not without courage, or friends, and the best-laid plans often come unglued. A comic romp which will delight fans of gothic parody a la Joan Aiken.

After more than one hundred years, this remains the ultimate pirate story. Young Jim tangles with Long John Silver in a quest for ill-gotten gains. A rip-roaring plot full of menacing suspense.

Damaris Crocker knows all about smugglers. One dark night, the cargo is more than just brandy and lace. Damaris finds a wounded stranger hiding in the woods and is plunged into a world of intrigue and adventure.

It is the summer of 1932. Along with the Depression's dust storms, a stranger blows into Pip Tyler's struggling farm community: taciturn, powerful and irresistibly mysterious, the Russian blacksmith can only be Rasputin, lone survivor of the assassination of the Russian royal family. Just what is the "mad monk" up to in Southern Alberta?

Young Tom and the gallant crew of the Volantix are bound for the Northwest Passage, determined to discover for themselves if the tales of snow goblins and ice trolls are true. Tom is to be their Kalifax, their talisman against ill fortune. Can he live up to the crew's faith in him? Thornton's lively adventure will recall old favourites such as John Masefield's Box Of Delights.

Thirteen-year-old Helen and her brother Michael are about to embark on an arctic expedition. Their mother is the seamstress, an essential member of the crew, and she will not leave them behind. But when winter comes early to the North, the Karluk is trapped in ice and the party must abandon ship. They make a desperate trip across an uncertain mass of floating ice, hoping to reach the safety of land before the iceberg melts beneath them or supplies run out. A gripping adventure based on the true story of the ill-starred Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913.