Fenja's best friend Jella is a witch. And what a witch she is! How Jella and her mother came to live in Fenja's attic is a mystery, but Fenja really couldn't...

You don't need to be rich to be happy

Nine-year old Pim and her father Phileas are a pretty good team - even though her Dad sometimes thinks Pim's...

Helge Helgeson, the old jarl of Haithabu is dead! In keeping with ancient Viking traditions, he is to be buried at sea. But the night...

Leah and John's parents are in Guatemala on the trail of the mysterious Orchid Salamander, and the twins are visiting them at their remote outpost. But one morning they...

There's a wealth of stories about football that go way beyond the stadium.

Christian Eichler has collected some of the most momentous moments for football-mad...

The location is Europe, the time is 30,000 years ago. The Neanderthals, who have inhabited the continent for nearly 200,000 years, are on the brink of extinction and will soon...

The truth is that Jonni was hoping he could creep to his place in Class 3 without attracting anyone's attention, so that Herr Knickel the strict teacher wouldn't notice that ...

Luis and Vincent - what a team! They've always been the best of friends. But then one day, Detlef Weich, a new boy, turns up in their class and insists on being...

Wanda can't believe what's happening! Dad's girlfriend Inge has finally given birth to a lovely baby boy, and Wanda is just getting used to the idea that she has a brother,...

Luis and Vincent are in for their next catastrophe. While on a class outing to the Deutsches Museum in Munich they get locked up in an ancient ship by their arch-enemies Zorro...

Luis and Vincent want to take part in a youth media competition and have been working hard to finish the animation they intend to submit. They have already drawn all the...

Ten-year-old Liselotte is eager, cheerful and a little bit cheeky sometimes. One sunny morning she looks out of her classroom window - and can't believe her eyes....

Hamdi is sure of one thing: he wants to be a goalkeeper when he grows up. His big sister Zeina is happy to practice with him. But that's all over when she gets married....

At the Olympic games in the year 350 B.C. young Kapros has a good chance of winning the pentathlon and the wrestling competition. But then he suddenly goes missing! Has...

Egypt 1300 B.C: the aged and highly respected scribe Neferhotep is dead. He leaves behind a large collection of writings, amongst them a priceless medical text written on...

July 1390: when Captain Klaus sails his boat into the harbour outside the town, the local innkeepers and grocers who have eagerly awaited his cargo are delighted. The great...

Erlenburg, winter 1390: kitchen boy Hannes comes across a stranger in the snow-bound castle moat - half-frozen, but still alive! He takes him to the safety of the larder...

There's just PE to get through, and after that it's the Easter holidays, at long last! But then a supermarket carrier bag containing the whole class's mobile...

Help and advice for 9 to 13-year-olds

How do I manage to get into so many arguments with my friends? Why are my parents constantly nagging me about my homework?...

Leo lives in Hamburg with her grandmother and her mother Zarah. Her mother is a famous pop star so she's always on the road travelling with her band. When grandma...

The first encounter between Marie, the miller's maidservant, and Jakob, the son of Parisian scholar Nicolas Flamel, is ill-fated. Jakob was travelling with his father on...

Can you imagine anything more mind-bogglingly dull than having to prepare a school project on knights? Fortunately for Tim, the Teletimer - Uncle Harold's...

In order to escape the excruciating boredom of six weeks' summer holiday, Tim uses his Teletimer to travel to the era of the Roman Empire. The little time machine is...

A fast-paced children's detective story involving blackmail, stolen goods and Charly the engaging amateur detective.

As it happens, there's a lot Charly would...

Charlie can't believe her luck! She's going to New York with Hanna and her parents for three weeks to visit Hanna's Aunt Ruth.  Ruth, a photographer, lives in central...

At first glance, Mia is just a normal girl-next-door. She lives in a fashionable Cologne suburb, goes to school every day, and looks like any other girl. And yet her homelife...

All of us have swallowed a cherrystone by accident at some point. And maybe that cherrystone was Karl-Otto. One day, he finds himself in the mouth of a dessert-eater, is ...

Forced to hide in a creepy cemetery, Richard finds himself among graves guarded by stone angels. Here he meets Artur, a strange boy who promptly saves his life after one of ...

Eric loves pirate stories more than anything. But during a seaside holiday he and his sister Lisa are swept away and wash up on the shore of a pirate world called Jorntland,...

Reluctantly, Anna, Fred and Grandpa Drechsler are forced to team up because they have to find the will relating to Castle Finkenstein at all costs! Because crotchety Grandpa...

Anna, Fred and Grandpa Drechsler are hot on the trail of the mysterious Count Otto von Finkenstein once again: this time, a Spanish newspaper article from 1968 falls into...

It goes without saying that Robert and Tim can't wait to return to the Time of the Knights. Back at Castle Wackerburg everything is the same during daylight hours, but ...

Robert and Tim have travelled back to the time of the knights before, and Robert is itching to go there again - after all, what else is his magic sword for? But on this...

It actually works! Tim always refused to believe that it was possible to travel through time with Robert's new magic sword, yet suddenly the two friends find themselves...

Illustrated by Stephan Rürup

"For Rent: Wing of a Castle. Includes use of garden. Children and animals welcome." Wow! Who would miss the chance to live in a...

A (good) joke is worth a thousand words:

The two mad monsters Ulf und Gnulf are on a seaside holiday.

So, Ulf says to Gnulf 'How do they make fishing nets?...

Who has kidnapped their teacher? Another case for the young detectives Cornelia & Co.

In the age of Caesar's Rome, Cornelia and her friends Titus, Publius...

The ruins of Troy, 1873: brothers Jannis and Nikos witness an audacious gold theft on Heinrich Schliemann's archaeological excavation site. But what can they do about it?...

Fritz and Ben are the best of friends, and so it goes without saying they help each other with any problems, big or small. Just now, their biggest problem is swimming lessons....

Inspector Schrödinger and his colleague Teufel are confronted with a series of mysterious thefts. The thief seems to operate entirely at ramdom - as soon as the...

Even as a small boy, Heinz was a maths genius, which explains why everyone calls him Number One Heinz. But as well as numbers, Heinz also loves playing tricks on people. This...