The story of Pollyanna Whitter, an eleven-year-old orphan who goes to live with her wealthy, but stern and cold Aunt Polly. To keep her spirits high, Pollyanna centers her life on what she calls the ‘The Glad Game,’ an optimistic and positive attitude towards life she learned from her father. Pollyanna soon brings her ‘game’ to the towns grumpy inhabitants.

The world bestseller about the teenager Tim Thaler, who lived in poverty and hardship, but knew how to rejoice and laugh so sincerely that everyone around him admired him. Sincere, ringing, as if silver, laughter was his real treasure. But the little one didn't even guess about it, because he dreamed of having a scooter with rubber wheels and eating plenty of cakes, and one day... he traded...

Slavko and Oksanka do not yet know that they are waiting for a small but real dragon Tyshko, a blue wind with a magical hat, as well as an ordinary unusual fence that grumbles and swears, but for the sake of friends is ready to become a raft, a bridge and even an aircraft. No danger will stop the children, because the baby dragon must be returned to its mother.

Old women and 36 and 6 cats will meet. This acquaintance will lead to incredible changes in the lives of people and cats. Cats that will become not only companions, but also football players and theater actors.

Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be...

Mr. Fred Grange claims to work as a clerk for a biscuit company, but he's out and about on the London streets at odd hours, and girl detective Maisie Hitchins soon discovers something very precious hidden in his rooms. Maisie is determined to unmask him as a thief, but the truth is far more complicated—and dangerous. Before long, Maisie and her friends are led into a web of mystery lurking...

Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London. And, together with her faithful puppy, Eddie, she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery no matter what! Alice's father is having a run of bad fortune two of his ships have disappeared and he has lost a lot of money. Maisie is sure she can...

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me.

Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well . . . pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like: Are bogeys safe to eat? Look, if your...

Farmer Pettson begins to sow his vegetables and because Findus doesn’t like vegetables he decides to plant one of his meatballs instead. However keeping the vegetable garden safe from the farm animals proves a hard task for Findus and Pettson. The seventh story from Hawthorn Press in the popular Findus and Pettson series about a farmer and his talking cat.

Hello from the moon! This book was drawn and written for you by the famous Ukrainian illustrator Rostyslav Popsky, in whose imagination the most incredible stories are born. The plot is really unusual: an astronaut engineer is sent to the moon to repair some equipment and... they forget about him. Real feelings for the fate of the main character, unexpected discoveries and grand...

Part botany, part history, part cultural anthropology—Trees goes beyond the basics to tell readers everything they might want to know about this particular branch of the plant kingdom. Trees explores the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, takes an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpacks the cultural impact of trees from classification...