In 1000 AD Greenland, Thorfinn Karlsefni is determined to make the crossing to America, then known as Vinland. He is joined on board by Sven Bleichhaar, along with his wife ...

Cologne, 1445. Following her father's death, ten-year-old Johanna has to work as a maidservant in the house of a wealthy merchant. Andreas, the merchant's son,...

It is about 20,000 years ago, in the Ice Age: now Lynx-Ear is ten years' old, he is no longer one of the children. Soon he will be admitted into the group of hunters. But...

Ten-year-old Jakob is getting desperate: his mother has fallen seriously ill and seems to be getting weaker by the day. So although he is terrified of her, Jakob goes to see...

In the freezing cold of the Antarctic, Philip the penguin cub is snuggled cosily in the warmth of the skin-flap on his father's belly.  He is dreaming of exciting...

In 1279 BC, the goldsmith Huja is commissioned by Pharaoh Ramses II to make an elaborately jewelled golden casket. This is a great honour for the craftsman, and he is the envy...

It is 506 BC, and July has been a feverishly busy month for Mikion and Andronikos in their Athens ceramics workshop. They have landed an extremely lucrative commission for the...

11-year-old Pedro and former slave boy Abasi are travelling along the Orinoco River in the company of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and his companion Aimé Bonpland....

Hikers in distress! While on a mountain hike, Benny, Anna and Dorian witness the work of the mountain rescue service at close quarters when two tourists completely ...

Max is on a seaside holiday in the South of England with his father and new step-family. The shoreline stretches for 150 kilometres and is known throughout the world as the...

It is ancient Rome, in the time of Caesar: Marcus works in his father's taverna, helped out by Gaul slave Argetorix, who is the same age as him.

The boys overhear...

It is August 3rd, 1492. In the small Spanish port of Palos, ten-year-old Luis has reached the end of his tether. His stepmother and her new husband, Rodrigo, treat him like a dog....

August, 79 AD: it is the middle of summer in Pompeii and the earth is shaking, while Mount Vesuvius is spitting fire! Are the gods angry with the inhabitants of this...

It is China, during the reign of the first emperor Qin Shi Huang (who ruled from 221-210 BC). Cao Pi is nine years old; his father Cao Shi is a crossbowman in the...

Luzie's father, Captain Tim Timm is unexpectedly hired by a shipping company that specialises in salvaging shipwrecks - and for Luzie that means summer holidays in the Caribbean!...