wales

"When a young boy moves from his home in Italy to Wales, the only thing that cheers him up are the racing pigeons that Mr. Evans keeps in a loft behind his house"--OCLC.

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. Suggested level: senior secondary.

While spending the summer in Tenby, Wales, with their grandfather, American cousins Zo? and Ian assemble an old glass puzzle, inadvertently unleashing ancient forces that threaten the island and allowing them to travel into the past.

Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.

A horrific tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island, where he discovers the ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous and may still be alive.

Sixteen-year-old expert archer Merry Owen is desperate to save her family's farm in Wales, in the shadow of the Black Castle, and when she finds a buried chest containing an ancient and hopefully valuable Welsh text, she hopes it will be the key to a fortune--and so it is, but not in the way she expected, for it sends her and her friend James de Courcy into past.

King Raven--Rhi Bran--has defended the people of Wales from their Norman overlords, but Rhi Bran, aided by Friar Tuck and his loyal band of forest outlaws, is being pursued by King William, Abbot Hugo, and the Sheriff de Glanville.

"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow--impossible though it seems--they may still be alive"--Publisher's website.

Simon Malmain, chief enforcer of the Guardian Council, which oversees the use of magic in eighteenth-century Britain, is turned into a unicorn after a run-in with Lord Drayton, but he is luckily freed by Meg, a servant in Drayton's household, who then unites with Malmain in an attempt to keep the rogue mage from enacting a plan to keep the Industrial Age from happening.

Doctor Who and Rose investigate a Welsh village where a mysterious killing has taken place and children are tormented by nightmares, and discover that, while the villagers suspect industrialist Nathaniel Morton, there may be more ancient and evil monstrosities at work.