Kids Planes

For years, Amira—a recent convert to Islam living in Rome—has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband’s redacted letters from the Moroccan black site where he is imprisoned. She moves as inconspicuously as possible through her modest life, doing her best to avoid the whispered curiosity of her community.

Astrid Atomic and her best friends, the Space Cadets, have been given an important mission from the Chief – to retrieve the special trophy for the Supersonic Saturn Race! Tonight they'll have to fly under boiling hot lava waterfalls, zoom through fields of flaming flowers and sneak past a big, toothy, scary space monster! And things go from bad to worse when they realise that the naughty Dr Boris Uranus on their tail. Will they get to the trophy before time runs out?

HOPE: Heroes of Planet Earth Island Trilogy, spanning the first three books in the series: Black Hole, Ghost Beach, and Tiger’s Tattoo. This whole thing started when Martin “Marty” Mayhew was forced to live on the oil rig known as the Black Hole, forced by his billionaire stepfather who owned it and believed he also owned Marty. Marty, floated on his board, a 5’8” Wetworks Thruster shaped by Jacca Seco from Brazil, next to a tangle of corner steel. It was not every day a fifteen-year-old boy got to surf a quick, almost-perfect wave off the side of an oil rig. He looked up at the ...

Know that one of you will not return… These are the ominous words spoken by the Oracle of Atlantis as it sends the intrepid Samantha and her teenage crew on their toughest challenge yet: relive the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Devising an ingenious method for working out where to head to follow in the footsteps of the Sumerian antihero, they face a series of challenges, each of which hides a lesson. Do they copy Gilgamesh or learn from his mistakes? For learn they must to collect the seven holy keys that will lead them to a prize as yet unknown. Pushed to the limits of their endurance ...

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin are loving parents who live with their son, Sammy, and daughter, Samantha, in a modest and happy home. Sammy Franklin wants to do something special for his mother, so he invents a robot named Nichole as a surprise for her birthday. What happens when Mrs. Franklin opens her present? It turns out she is not the only one who receives a gift.