New Releases by Jill Paton Walsh

When Connie comes to play she uses her imagination.

Prince Dhutmose has commanded a splendid tomb to be built for his final journey to the Land of the Dead. Pepi''s father is to decorate it, but how can he paint the unimaginable-the terrible gods: Horus the Hawk, Sebek the Crocodile, and Mertseger the Winged Cobra? Pepi decides to help him and, armed with his quick wits and a knowledge of secret names, the boy sets out into the wild to bring back real-life models for his father. In this magically illustrated story, young readers can solve the secret names for themselves, using a simple hieroglyphics key that brings them into the mysterious world of ancient Egypt.

"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard. So begins Mall Percival''s account of how her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George Vicars dies on September 6, 1665, and by the end of October, twenty-five more townsfolk have been buried. As the deaths continue, the villagers, including Mall, begin to panic--helpless to fight off the disease. Uncertain as to how it is contracted and passed from one person to another, Mall forces herself to make a sacrifice that radically changes her life--she decides to stops seeing Thomas Torre, a man from another village, the man she hopes to marry. In June of 1966, at their minister''s urging, the entire village makes a pact to protect those who live in the surrounding countryside by staying within the boundaries of Eyam. Although Mall longs to see Thomas, she remains steadfast in her resolution, until one day Thomas runs into the center of Eyam, knowing that he will not be allowed to leave, yet fearing that Mall has died. Mall and Thomas marry, but their happiness is short-lived. Finally, in October of 1666, the pestilence subsides. Mall, overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, decides to write a chronicle of all she has witnessed in Eyam, hoping that it will set her free.

After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national hero.

James''s difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.

Colour illus. A collection of stories for young readers.

Cal and Dio set out, along with a few of their friends, on an extraordinary journey to discover the torch''s true meaning and to find its home.

A Stone Age boy loses an arrowhead that is found by a young girl several centuries later, while the jug she has lost is found centuries later by a young boy, whose own lost sixpence is found by a little girl in the present day.

Born in England, Dulcie is sad when she is unable to share the memories her friends David and Leslie have of Jamaica, their first home.

Creep accidentally travels back in time to the British Industrial Revolution, while, in the present, his half brother is anxiously searching for him. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The recent heir to her grandmother''s house, a young girl rents it for the summer to a professor and a group of students whose long, abstract, philosophical discussions become meaningful to her as the summer wears on.

SUMMARY : Fascinated by the canal boats going past her house, a young girl inadvertently finds herself traveling with them as a member of the crew.

In Ra''s prehistoric tribe, each man makes his own tools and hunts for himself and his family. One evening Ra needed light from Grandmother''s fire to finish an ax, and Yul, another hunter, saw that Ra''s ax was better than his own. He offered to share the day''s hunt with Ra if Ra will make a fine ax in trade. Others wanted the same, but for young Ra to make all the tools needed by his Stone Age tribe is a new idea for all of them, and provides Ra with a skill that saves his life when he is abandoned by his tribe for forgetting how to hunt.

Adam finds an implement like a Stone Age axe which he carries everywhere but which appears to give him bad dreams. He gives his treasure to a terrified, caged gorilla, feeling it is not r̀ight to lock people up.'' The gorilla escapes but Adam gets back his axe.

Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times when raiders came from the North, and Paganism and Christianity struggled for recognition.