Morpurgo, Michael

With only the mythical luck of a golden torc, the necklace of their ancestors, to protect them, Sean and Annie O'Brien leave famine-stricken Ireland to search for their father in a strange land called America.

"As a child, Allen is saved from a nautical disaster by Benjamin Postlethwaite, a solitary lighthouse keeper. Years later, Allen returns to the lighthouse, and the two nurse an injured young puffin back to health. When Allen is called up to fight in World War Two...his fond memories of his time at the lighthouse keep him going, even through prison camp"--Provided by publisher.

"Bonny thinks she has everything figured out: train hard, please her parents, and become an Olympic cyclist like her hero, Laura Trott. There has never been any other path - for Bonny, cycling is her fate. Until another path unrolls in front of her. After meeting Lizzie, a farm owner and sculptor, Bonny starts to spend less and less time on her bike and more time helping out at the farm. When Lizzie asks her to pose as a rider for a sculpture, Bonny can finally see how wide open her future is and begins to believe in a different dream"--Provided by publisher.

A boy, indulgent of his grandfather's story of being whisked away as a young shepherd by the angel Gabriel to visit the baby Jesus on the night of the infant's birth, decides to record the tale when he receives proof that it is true.

When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.

Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.

Jo-Jo is a very unhappy donkey who carries melons to the markets of Venice, Italy, every day, until his friendship with the daughter of the Doge leads him to become a hero.

Michael Morpurgo's The Day the World Stopped Turning is a middle-grade novel about an extraordinary boy who sees the world differently.In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World War II, Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos. There are lots of things he doesn't understand?but he does know how to heal animals, how to talk to them; the flamingos especially. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother. It?s there he meets Kezia, a Roma girl, who helps her parents run their carousel?and who shows him how to ride the wooden horse as the music plays. But then the German soldiers come, with their guns. Everything is threatened, everything is falling apart: the carousel, Kezia and her family, even Lorenzo?s beloved flamingos. Yet there are kind people even among soldiers, and there is always hope. ..