great britain

Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.

Gatty is given the chance of a lifetime when she is asked to accompany a family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the journey, though dangerous, quickly changes Gatty's life forever.

Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap, but Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself.

Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.

Theodosia Throckmorton is shocked when she encounters Mr. Tetley at a museum benefit, knowing his appearance can only mean the Serpents of Chaos are back, leaving Theodosia to face secret societies, evil curses, and dark magic.

In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef--the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before.

Presents a short study of Great Britain, and examines the landscape, languages and dialects, economy, monarchy, holidays and festivals, and much more.

Rhiannon, a fourteen-year-old girl in twelfth-century England who lives on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer mom and grandmother, enlists the aid of a handsome young monk, a mysterious French pirate, and a ghostly, little girl in an attempt to solve the murder of a stranger whose body was found close to home, and clear her friend and neighbor of suspicion.

Investigates what it is like to live in the United Kingdom, providing facts about the union's population, size, language, and government, and discussing the U.K.'s history, city and country life, food and drink, culture, travel and tourism, and attractions.

A humorous account of the Spanish Armada and what it was like to be a sailor in this ill-fated fleet in 1588.