Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408180391
A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1408152789
A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781417609420
In this thriller set in ancient Egypt, two boys accompany their father to the new capital city to help him bring animals to the pharaoh Akhenaten. The boys and their father are delighted-but have no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for them.
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192751577
Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the wholeworld beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty -- by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 9780192753755
Author : Joann Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781844839254
Ancient Egypt includes accounts of key themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination, including the religious mysteries of the great temples of Karnak and Luxor and the secrets of the hieroglyphs.
Author : Jane Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781409599760
Packed full of fun and facts, accompanied by internet links, about everyday life in ancient Egypt, this book answers questions like what were pyramids for? Why are they so big? How were mummies made? And, why did the Egyptians write on walls?
Author : Fleur Hitchcock
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1788005104
A vivid adventure filled with danger and heroism from the author of Murder in Midwinter. Athan Wilde dreams of flight. When his friend, Mr Chen, is murdered, Athan must rescue the flying machine they were building together and stop it falling into the wrong hands. But keeping the machine safe puts his family in terrible danger. What will Athan choose - flight or family? From the acclaimed author of Murder In Midwinter, Fleur Hitchcock's The Boy Who Flew is a thrilling, murderous tale set among the steep rooftops and slippery characters of Athan's intricately imagined world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Peter Bunzl and Philip Reeve.
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192792865
It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will never stop in Florence again. How will they ever make a living now? Cissy and her friends, family and neighbours vow that they will make the train stop - by whatever means are necessary, no matter how dangerous that may prove to be . . .
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0060890355
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.
