Categories: Adventure, Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Dragons, Fantasy, Fluent English, Grade 7+, History, Nick Creech, School Projects, Young Adult
A Way With Dragons features the adventures of Welsh twins Cash and Cary and a small dragon. Recruited by the small dragon for an important task the twins travel back to the time of Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. An exciting fantasy adventure featuring Welsh and folk history and a few dragons. Author: Nick Creech Sample Text …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Bullying, Friendship, Grade 7+, Henrique Komatsu, Intermediate English, Older Children, Values
Seesaw – A Sad Story – A poignant, symbolic account of a boy coming to terms with sadness. He is bullied into cutting off his ears, only to find there is much bigger things in the world than people’s hurtful comments. For older children (contains some sensitive material). By: Henrique Komatsu Text and Images …
Categories: Adventure, Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Fluent English, Grade 7+, History, Nick Creech, Young Adult
Annabella Crabtree hunted : Hunted – The witching hour came and went and still the storm that lowered over Castle Alamut refused to break… The first line from a book by a popular author who also writes about Dragons amongst other things. Volume 1 in the epic Annabella Trilogy. This book is for “Young Adults” …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Nick Creech, science fiction, Young Adult
Galiconia – Mac has only ever wanted one thing: to defy the forces of gravity and to fly free, as though a bird in his own right. A select few, perhaps one in ten million of the billions of people in the Hyades, have the synapses to harness the anti-gravity properties of thormalium, the element …
Categories: Adventure, Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Fluent English, Geography and Travel, Grade 7+, History, Nick Creech, Young Adult
Annabella Crabtree and the djinni, Basil, are reunited when Hassan-i Sabbāh escapes imprisonment in the boiling mud of a Baluchistan volcano and embarks on a campaign of vengeance. To protect those closest to her, Annabella must return to the past to deal with him and finds herself embroiled in the Crusades. This is the second …
Categories: Adventure, Age 10-13 years, Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Fluent English, Grade 7+, History, Nick Creech, Young Adult
Annabella Crabtree Hostage – Iblis, Prince of Darkness in the Other World, is demanding Annabella Crabtree be returned to his control. In an attempt to avoid a war between the Dark and the Light, she is betrayed and spirited to France in the time of Caesar’s Gallic wars where she must survive, dependent only on …
Categories: Adventure, Classic Books, Grade 7+, Public Domain, Sea Creatures
In Moby Dick; or, The Whale, Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab’s leg at the knee. Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford …
Categories: Age years 13+, Family, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Lowry Pei, Young Adult
Family resemblances is a coming of age novel about a fifteen year old girl sent to spend the summer with her unmarried aunt, her mother’s younger sister. Both learn a great deal about each other. A sensitive, emotional novel. Aimed at teenagers, some content is considered sensitive. Author: Lowry Pei This book, previously published but out …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, All FKB Books, Fable, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Helga Moreno, Marina Moyari, Older Children, Science
Journey into the net is a cyberspace children’s adventure for children and adults. A subtle analogy on cyberspace to date including appearances from all sorts of familiar heroes and villains (including FKB’s latest favourite the infamous WP). This book is brought to us by MonsterPost, supplying themes, skins and all things related to blogs and websites. Author Helga Moreno, Illustratrated by Marina …
Categories: Classic Books, Grade 7+, Mark Twain, Public Domain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – In this Mark Twain classic, Tom and his friend Huck get up to all sorts of adventures. By: Mark Twain Text from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer CHAPTER I “TOM!” No answer. “TOM!” No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!” No …