McCaughrean, Geraldine

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

Contains adaptations of thirteen tales by the pilgrims traveling to Canterbury in about 1387.

Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.

An illustrated retelling of the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus.

Noah's daughter, daughter-in-law, son, wife and the animals describe what it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them drown.

I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now; which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears. But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed; and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.

Contains adaptations of thirteen tales told by a motley assortment of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in about 1387.

Follows the adventures of Don Rodrigo who became know as El Cid--the Lord.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.