Based on the true story of one man's determination to help an African American family escape from slavery along the legendary Underground Railway, from award-winning picture book masters Rappaport and Collier.

A compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives -- from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake -- which demonstrates the continuing importnace of the need for heroes in the modern age.

This third volume of Campbell's classic study of world mythologies covers the central myths that still inform the consciousness of the European West.

Francis Joseph Cassavant, a teenage war hero and war victim is forced to confront his past - the youth leader he idolized and who betrayed him, and the girl he still loves.

Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes for the fleece, his greatest treasure and the Eros-inspired passion felt by his daughter, the beautiful witch-princess Medea, for the scheming Jason. ...

George and Harold are back - in another truly icky adventure. When class boffin Melvin Sneedly goes too far with his latest amazing invention, the Bionic Booger Boy comes to sticky, snotty, really bad-tempered life...

Lieutenant James Gordon takes up a new post in the crime-ridden and corrupt city of Gotham, while billionaire Bruce Wayne returns to the scene of his parents' deaths, intent on avenging their memory. Each faces trials and challenges of their own, only for their lives to become irrevocably and potentially tragically intertwined...

Containing 28 pages of new sketches and a four-page gallery of cover art from the original comic series, this is a revised edition of a Batman graphic novel first published a decade earlier.

Ignoring her father's plans for her, Paksenarrion leaves her family and sets off for the army, where her heroic restoration of a lost ruler to his throne will make her a legend.

The epic sequel to Kristen Britain's debut novel, Green Rider .

Second title in Garth Nix's gripping new fantasy adventure series.

Greasers, Rockers, different place, different name - but wherever they are, they're outsiders; the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the other side of town, with little hope of Mustangs, madras shirts and the good things of American life in the Sixties.

The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart -- ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin -- who goes on to become King Arthur.

What if some of the best-loved literary characters in history were to band together to fight crime? What if Captain Nemo and Allan Quatermain were brought together by a Miss Mina Harker to fight the menace of Fu Manchu? Read this collection to find out.

Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies, in a compilation of the creator's Bone series all in one binding.

'A winner - tip of the hat to young master Paolini' Anne McCaffrey, author of The Dragonriders of Pern series'A compelling and action- filled adventure ... a galloping good example of its genre' Daily Telegraph'This book is an achievement. Readers ...

The fourth novel in Stephen King's magnificent epic tale about the quest to reach the Dark Tower, relaunched in B format with a new series look.

Presents the story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964.