Spring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way. But secret lives can be complicated.

Magic Flutes

Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island .

The Secret of Platform 13

A whip-smart observation of the passions and tragedies behind daily life, Eva Ibbotson's Madensky Square is a classic snapshot of Viennese life before WWI, with a new introduction from Laura Wood. Susanna Weber's dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna. As the winter of 1910 unfurls into spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square, about the buildings and their colourful inhabitants. There's Frau Schumacher, with six daughters and a baby on the way, Professor Starsky and his menagerie of sickly reptiles, an aging bookseller, a teenaged Anarchist, and little Sigi - an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day. And then there's her dear friend Alice, the only person who has noticed the heartbreak that hides beneath Susanna's brisk kindness and brilliant talent .

Madensky Square

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Haunting of Hiram is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.'I will buy your castle, ' declared Hiram C. Hopgood. 'But only if there are no ghosts!' Alex MacBuff can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra, and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. The castle is shipped all the way to Texas, but its ghostly inhabitants, including Krok the Viking warrior and a hell-hound called Cyril, follow their home across the Atlantic. How can Alex stop them haunting Hiram and also save the millionaire's daughter from an evil ransom plot?

The Haunting of Hiram

The Morning Gift is a beautiful, classic romance from much loved author, Eva Ibbotson. Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever.When Hitler's forces invade, Ruth's family flees to London, but she is unable to get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits Ruth and, in an effort to bring her back to London, he offers a marriage of convenience. As Ruth throws herself into her London life, Quin begins to fall desperately in love with her. Things are further complicated by the arrival of Heini . . .

Les Matins d'Emeraude

Hal rêve d'avoir un chien pour compagnon. Ses parents ont toujours refusé, alors quand son père l'emmène à l'agence « Chiens pour tous », le jeune garçon est fou de joie. Il choisit Flocon, un jeune bâtard tout blanc. Lorsqu'il comprend que c'est juste un chien de location, Hal, désespéré, n'a d'autre issue que de s'enfuir avec lui afin qu'ils soient ensemble pour toujours. Commence alors un long voyage plein de dangers et de rencontres aussi savoureuses qu'inoubliables en compagnie d'une petite fille et de cinq chiens sans maître.Chaleureuse, drôle, émouvante, Eva Ibbotson est un immense auteur pour la jeunesse qui vous emporte dans un tourbillon d'émotions. Un grand classique.

Un chien pour toujours

La naissance d'Annika est un mystère. Abandonnée dans une église en pleine montagne, elle a été élevée par une famille excentrique de Vienne. Sa vie bascule lorsque sa vraie mère réapparaît et l'emmène vivre en Allemagne, dans son château morne et glacé. Heureusement, Annika trouve l'amitié auprès du jeune palefrenier, Zed, un gitan passionné par les chevaux et qui rêve de rentrer à la prestigieuse école d'équitation de Vienne.

L'étoile de Kazan

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous adventure.

JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.

Magic Flutes

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