The eerily-lit staircase seemed to hide not ghosts, but things and people that meant terrible harm. The balcony in the Hall seemed far away, like a beautiful dream he had to wake up from. Reality was home and getting up to the ninth floor unscathed. ...
In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder....
'The look-out screamed against the wind, his hair streaming out behind him, his tunic flapping, wrapping tightly round bare legs blue with cold. 'Tis the Elephant, sir. Comin' up on us fast!'" John is on board the Esperance, heading for a new life in...
Marianne is an extremely talented ballet dancer, but her friend Harriet is worried about her -- being skinny is common enough in ballet school, but Marianne seems to be making herself ill. Harriet is excited to be accompanying Marianne to dance at t...