Geraldine McCaughrean

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.

In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.

The Trojan is over, and Odysseus longs to return to wife and son his island kingdom of Ithaca. But between hero and home stands an array of dangers unlike any ever faced by mortal man.

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

Ashamed of her crown of antlers, the reindeer retreats to the lonely northern wastelands, but many years later her descendants find their antlers useful when they help Santa Claus one Christmas Eve.

What does the future hold in store? Is it ever a good idea even to ask? There was a time once when the Three Fates sat in the corner of the young world and knitted like grandmothers for each newborn infant. They wove and worked and patterned each day of a man's life, from the first stitch to the last casting off. In those days, there were oracles, too, fortune-tellers so sharp-eyed that they could see into the future, so unkind that they were prepared...

Fifteen myths about the sun, the moon, and the stars from different cultures and countries.

Light-catching stained-glass illustrations bring the nativity story to life.