Most Popular Books by Penelope Farmer

It is Charlotte''s first night at boarding school, and as she''s settling down to sleep, she sees the corner of the new building from her window. But when she wakes up, instead of the building there is a huge, dark cedar tree, and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who slept there last night. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years to 1918 and has swapped places with a girl called Clare. Charlotte and Clare swap places ever night until one day Charlotte becomes trapped in 1918 and must find a way to return to her own time before the end of term.

Penelope''s mother died when she was a very young child and she was subsequently adopted by her mum''s best friend, Aunt Jo. On the surface her life seems as normal as anyone''s and yet underneath she is deeply confused. Why does she suffer such painful headaches, why does she remember things that can''t possibly have happened to her, and why can she speak phrases of Latin when she has never been taught the subject?!. Sometimes she really believes she is going mad. And then when even her best friend, Piloo, starts talking about reincarnation it''s almost more than she can bear. Penelope only wants to be herself, but in order to achieve that she has to look to her past and discover just who she really is. . . . .

When Hugh is given a new cupboard, little does he know the secret it holds or how it will affect him and all his friends. Because the cupboard changes things - sometimes dangerously - and if it has the power to change a wallet into a pig, imagine what it can turn Hugh''s friend Penn into! . . . And then there are Hugh''s dreams; or are they really dreams?

A strange boy teaches the children in a small English village to fly like birds.

A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

This imaginative fantasy sequel to the Summer birds, finds Emma and Bobby flying backward in time while they sleep.

Two English girls from differing backgrounds are joined in friendship when they discover a stone that seems to have magical powers.

Charlotte und ihre kleine Schwester Emma träumen davon, fliegen zu können. Und tatsächlich wird ihr Wunsch wahr, als sie eines Tages auf dem Schulweg einem Jungen begegnen, der ihnen das Fliegen beibringt. Die beiden sind begeistert, denn mit ein wenig Übung können sie ebenso am Himmel schweben wie die Vögel. Als der Junge sogar ihrer ganzen Klasse das Fliegen lehrt, nimmt der Sommer eine außergewöhnliche Wendung: Gemeinsam fliegen sie alle ans Meer, veranstalten Picknicks und gleiten im Mondlicht über die Wälder. Doch die nachdenkliche Charlotte ahnt, dass der Junge etwas verbirgt. Denn keiner der Erwachsenen kann ihn sehen. Und als der Sommer sich dem Ende neigt, enthüllt der Junge ein Geheimnis, das alles verändern wird ... Ein Klassiker der britischen Kinderliteratur und eine wunderbar zeitlose Geschichte über das Erwachsenwerden, mit stimmungsvollen, poetischen Bildern illustriert von Barbara Yelin.

Both Will and his cousin Becky have some adjusting to do when he comes to live with her family after his mother''s death, especially when the ghost of a child coal miner begins his insistent haunting of Will.

Transported into strange underwater worlds by the half a sea shell William owns, Mary and William conduct a seemingly hopeless search for the other half of the shell.

The sea shell half that William keeps in his pocket has the ability to transport him and Mary to strange under-water worlds where they search for the shell''s other half.