New Releases by Celia Rees

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family''s Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

In de klas van Alex deed iedereen mee aan het pesten van Michael Bailey tot het uit de hand liep. Nu is er een nieuw meisje op school en alles gebeurt opnieuw. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family''s Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Ellen''s just sixteen, but she''s dying-and nobody knows why. So when she''s sent to her gran''s house she''s relieved to find a distraction in the form of her great-grandmother''s diaries, written when she was Ellen''s age. As Ellen reads, she becomes increasingly embroiled in the fascinating story of her life. Who is the enigmatic and seductive Count her great-grandmother was supposed to marry? And why is it that Ellen and her great-grandmother resemble each other so much that they could be twins? But Ellen''s condition is worsening, and it''s becoming more and more difficult for her to distinguish her own life from the nightmarish events recorded in the diaries. Is the past destroying her, or do the diaries hold the key to Ellen''s survival...?

Corrían el año 1659, y el país de Inglaterra buscaba por todas partes a las mujeres sospechosas de brujería. Una anciana condenada a la ahorca muere delante de su nieta llamada Mary Newbury quien también posee poderes mágicos. La muchacha decide abandonar el pueblo donde vivía con ella y emprende un viaje a América, lugar que promete un futuro mejor para su vida, sin tantas persecuciones. El viaje lo realiza por mar junto a un grupo de puritanos que van como colonos. Mary llega al nuevo continente y se hospeda junto a unos familiares en el pueblo de Salem. Allí, la chica comienza a fomentar la duda entre los ingleses por sus reiterados viajes al bosque en busca de plantas que utiliza como medicina y aún más porque entabla amistad con un indio americano.

Josh Parker discovers the strange belongings of the uncle he never knew, a UFO-mad boy called Patrick who died at the same as Josh, 13. He also discovers, through his mother''s journal, that Patrick was autistic. Mysteriously, Josh also finds parallels between the journal and his computer game.

Ten years of Point Horror-not for the faint-hearted. Horror at its hideous best... Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick: The first time Martha sees the house she knows it''s evil. Somewhere so cold and sinister couldn''t be anything else. So she''s not surprised to find that someone was murdered in it. Not surprised, just scared out of her mind. She''s also sure someone''s watching her. Following her. Making creepy phone calls. Martha''s pretty certain that this Halloween is going to be the scariest of her life and possibly her last... April Fools by Richie Tankersley Cusick: Frank thinks he''s King of the Fools. This is his day. So when he and his friends get cut up by some hotshot driver...well, fair game. But the game goes wrong and suddenly things aren''t so funny any more... Two weeks later, the ''pranks'' start. Someone saw what happened that night, and wants to join in the fun. But April Fools'' Day is over and these jokes are for real... Blood Sinister by Celia Rees: The old, leather bound diary is just a diversion for Ellen at first. Sent to rest at her grandmother''s house, she begins reading to take her mind off her mysterious illness. For no one knows why she''s so pale, so bloodless...But the bizarre history that unfolds is so compelling, so strangely tangled up with her own life that Ellen begins to feel even more drained than before...could something be reaching across the centuries to claim her, bleeding her dry...?

Als Joshua zijn moeders dagboek uit 1959 leest, gaat hij twijfelen aan de dood van zijn autistische oom destijds.

Omdat de 14-jarige Mary in Engeland gevaar loopt als heks te worden beschouwd, reist ze midden 17e eeuw naar Amerika, waar ze met haar geneeskrachtige kruiden velen helpt.

In het kader van een geschiedenisproject van school onderzoeken twee vriendinnen de al 25 jaar onopgeloste moord op een toen 6-jarig meisje.