Joan Aiken
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The English countryside is ravaged by wolves, but their sinister presence is felt more around Willoughby Chase than anywhere else. When Bonnie's parents go abroad, she is left with scheming Miss Slighcarp, and this proves an even greater threat than the wolves.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Armitage and their children , Harriet, Mark, and little Milo, as they try to find innovative ways to cope with a variety of extraordinary events including stray unicorns in the garden, lessons in magic that go awry, and eviction from their house to make way for a young magicians' seminary.
14) The stolen lake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Wolves Chronicles continue as Dido and her friend Simon, Duke of Battersea, have many perilous adventures trying to protect the ailing King James from the plotting of the evil Baron Magnus who is determined that his brutish son Lothar will be the next king of England.
19) The cuckoo tree
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.