Akimbo and his parents live on the edge of an African game reserve. It’s his father’s task to protect the thousands of amazing animals who make it their home, and wildlife-loving Akimbo dreams of helping him. In these three adventures, Akimbo protects elephants from poachers, saves a lion cub from a trap, and rescues a man from a crocodile!

Discover the amazing diversity of the African continent in this beautiful book, with words by Atinuke and lively illustrations from Mouni Feddag.

Journey into the past and explore the first great civilizations, discover how they arose and why they declined. Find about early settlements, farming, trade, crafts, customs and culture. This colourful volume shows exactly how people lived, how they fought and how they organized their societies.

Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.

Glaciers may not be as well-known as rain forests or coral reefs, but they are just as vital to the health of the planet, and just as threatened by climate change.

Glaciers are massive bodies of ice that move under their own weight. They form when snow accumulates faster than ablation, and this process continues over years and centuries. It’s fascinating to see the incredible amount of ice accumulated by the end of the last ice age.

Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people’s homes, and why.

Ghostly activity is threatening a Premier League club as they build a new stadium on Roman ruins. One worker has already met a grisly death – and many other lives are in danger. The horror of modern injustice seems to have woken the spirits of the past …

Serafina made a secret promise to go to school and learn to read so she can become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But following her dream isn’t easy-endless chores, little money and stomach-rumbling hunger all test her resolve. When an earthquake hits and separates Serafina from friends and family, she encounters her biggest test of all.

What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? And how can you turn fear into courage?

Darius Kellner, an Iranian–American teenager living in Portland, Oregon, who has clinical depression. He loves Star Trek, tea, and his little sister, Laleh. Darius struggles with bullies, a lack of friends, and his disapproving dad, Stephen Kellner.

Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, a critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates–and the hearts–of four mortals in their hands.

At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under “mandate” from the new League of Nations.

Ninety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged.

Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. This book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out.