Some volunteered. Others were forced to serve. But each of these young people sailed with the world's most feared pirates - from the notorious Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to Sir Henry Morgan and others.
from the back cover: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . . In th…
Come shopping with me and Mum and little Harry and Wilf the Wonderdog. But this is no ordinary shopping trip: the car breaks down, the rain keeps coming and the road becomes a jungle, then a river... It's an expedition where anything might happen. In fact, it probably will!
Nine stories about ghosts and phantoms found haunting schools.
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom.
Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and this time she's in a jealous mood. Jealous of classmate Jessica Finch, that is, who gets her picture on the newspaper, just for winning a spelling bee. Judy is so determined, she just might get famous after all-or will she merely become more infamous than ever?