New Releases by Penelope Farmer

A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new kid, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months that follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.

Penelope''s mother died when she was a very young child and she was subsequently adopted by her mum''s best friend, Aunt Jo. On the surface her life seems as normal as anyone''s and yet underneath she is deeply confused. Why does she suffer such painful headaches, why does she remember things that can''t possibly have happened to her, and why can she speak phrases of Latin when she has never been taught the subject?!. Sometimes she really believes she is going mad. And then when even her best friend, Piloo, starts talking about reincarnation it''s almost more than she can bear. Penelope only wants to be herself, but in order to achieve that she has to look to her past and discover just who she really is. . . . .

When a stone crocodile from the local park mysteriously appears on their doorstep three children become the owner of an extraordinary pet.

A strange boy teaches the children in a small English village to fly like birds.

This imaginative fantasy sequel to the Summer birds, finds Emma and Bobby flying backward in time while they sleep.

Transported into strange underwater worlds by the half a sea shell William owns, Mary and William conduct a seemingly hopeless search for the other half of the shell.

The sea shell half that William keeps in his pocket has the ability to transport him and Mary to strange under-water worlds where they search for the shell''s other half.

Two English girls from differing backgrounds are joined in friendship when they discover a stone that seems to have magical powers.