wales

Rumi Vasi, a gifted fourteen-year-old, feels trapped by her father's desire to make her the youngest student to attend Oxford University, her mother's longing to return to their native India, and her own dreams of being a normal teenage girl.

A collection of myths and legends from Wales that tell of heroic adventures and magical creatures in stories such as "Pwyll and Pryderi," "The story of Branwen," and "The quest for Olwen.".

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

An illustrated collection of traditional Celtic stories, blessings and rhymes, accompanied with notes on each story and a guide to pronounce the Celts words used.

Harold Lowe, fifth officer of RMS Titanic, was described by a surviving passenger as the real hero of the Titanic. Lowe took command of a flotilla of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors. He was the only officer to do so and succeeded in raising a sail, rescuing the drenched inhabitants of a sinking lifeboat, and towed another boat to safety. Not only did he survive the sinking of the Titanic but as a fifteen-year-old runaway went to West Africa and saw action in Siberia during the Russian Revolution.

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

While spending the summer in an old stone house in Wales, fourteen-year-old Cristyn comes to terms with the death of her mother while satisfying the request of a thirteenth-century princess.

An old man and old woman throw their dinner leftovers unknowingly onto the tiny house of a little man and his wife.

Based on a Welsh legend about Prince Llywelyn and his loyal dog Gelert, who is wrongly banished when the prince believes that the dog has attacked his son.

Teased by the other children for not having a father, young Merlin develops his magic powers and comes to the aid of a king.