When a fur trapper refuses to surrender his son to a shaman from the Ghost World, he must struggle against the supernatural, and his son is torn between his love for his father and the temptation to fulfill his destiny....
A chilling, thrilling collection of horrifying stories just in time for Halloween includes two dozen scary tales from a variety of authors--Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Stephen King, Vivien Alcock, and John Steinbeck....
Having traveled to a sixteenth-century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea Mitchell must decide in which era she will live when her fellow time travelers arrive to plunder the clan. Reprint....
The follow-up to the award-winning The Sterkarm Handshake: A woman’s return to Scotland’s barbaric past ensnares her in a web of intrigue, danger, and love.
Andrea Mitchell once found acceptance and love among the Sterkarm clan...
The Carnegie Medal winning modern classic.
On a Midwinter night, a shaman demands a new-born baby girl from her slave-mother - and carries the child away in a hut that stalks across the snow on chicken legs.
The new-born son of the C...
People have told stories since the world began -- and everybody has a story.
Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories.
He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid's grandmother,...
'Are you cold, my children? Are you cold?'The Northlands are dying… The trees are cut down to build ships and cities, the animals and people slaughtered.The young witch, Shingebiss, pleads with the ancient shaman, her grandmother to save the land. ...
In the darkness, a shadow moved, and something green glinted in a patch of moonlight. Another shadow drifted among the trees. Green eyes and grey shadows, all about them, watching. Abandoned in the forest by parents who can no longer afford to feed t...
Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman.
'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evok...
Here are nine powerful stories written by acclaimed, award winning author, Susan Price.
Voices whisper in a graveyard…
'Who weeps on my grave, who keeps me from sleep? - Is it you who unearths me to this cold rain, this dark, this...
Harken!
This is the saga of Aslak Ottarssen, born a slave.
Aslak, and his beloved sister, Astrid, are the children of a Norwegian farmer. Their mother was an English slave.
Their father chooses to free Aslak. But Astrid remain...
A new book from the Carnegie winning author, Susan Price.
""I don't think those dogs ever mistook me for their master. They were good herd-dogs and I think they knew exactly what I was - a little calf, lost from the herd. A lost little pup wand...
"Who's trip-tripping across my bridge?"
A favourite story for the little ones' bedtime! This well-loved traditional tale is here retold for early readers by Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price, and illustrated in an exuberant sla...
The sixteenth-century Sterkarms are legendary warriors known for their cunning and strength but what will happen when time travel sets them up to battle their counterparts in an epic final clash? James Windsor leader of FUP, the twenty-first-century ...
Time traveling corporate raiders target 16th-century Scotland -- and face the legendary Sterkarm warriors -- in this “enthralling . . . brilliantly imagined” series (Philip Pullman on The Sterkarm Handshake). James Windsor -- leader of FUP, th...
Under a freezing Arctic sky, a wolf carries a baby to a remote village.Taken in by the villagers and named 'Vulchanok' or 'Little Wolf', the lost baby grows into a happy little boy.But night after night, his dreams are walked by his rescuer, the wolf...
Sharing a favourite story-book together creates a pleasurable bond between child and parent that will always be remembered.Susan Price, who wrote the words, is a well-known writer for children and young people, who won the prestigious Carnegie medal ...
Paul loves beautiful girls and poetry.
He's courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell's Angels in the Hailstone Inn.
So when Zione, black and gorgeous, appears in his audience, he's well pleased. When she invites him into t...
Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal.
A descendent of the god, Woden. His uncle is the King.
Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess.
But his uncle g...
Kveldulf Witch is a promise-breaking killer. He is not a good man to deal with.
When Kveldulf's raven tells him that the Queen of Ultima-Thule is searching for a husband, Kveldulf decides that he will be the man the queen marries.
Sarah's Gran Gornal is a witch.
So is her Uncle Bryan.
Sarah's parents won't let her have a dog because of the cost of feeding it and taking it to the vet.
Uncle Bryan says he'll make her one that won't need food or the vet.
He ...
A childless old couple love their kitten so much, they decide to have him educated.They pay their vicar to teach Thomas his letters.But the vicar is a cruel man. He takes their money but he kills their kitten.Year after year he makes them work to pay...
Chris, you're guilty! You're an atheist!In the 16th Century your faith, or lack of it, could get you killed... Christopher Uptake, too outspoken for his own good, is easy prey. When his talent attracts the patronage of wealthy Edmund Brentwood, he th...
Why does Ivar's family always send him away at Christmas?Why are they so poor, when they work so hard? What is the black cat's secret? Ivar is determined to discover the truth - but soon finds himself in terrible danger. A lively, slightly scary tale...
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there a...
A red squirrel— A stone squirrel—A stone squirrel of red carnelian— runs up and down a little nut-tree, cracking nuts. For every nut she cracks, she must tell a story… So many nuts to choose. Nuts with shells of bot...
Linnet begs his mates to cut off his head, so his children can carry it with them on the road. It's 1770 and Linnet lies dying beside the 'stinking ditch' he has helped to dig for miles. His last desperate wish is for his children to go home to ...
Clo, Letty and Granny Shearing...There at every gathering, spinning thread and stories. Spinning, measuring and cutting through the thread that's spun...They make sandwiches, wipe tears, mind children, stitch clothing and always have a story to tell....
Horror by night in the Royal latrine...A fast flight to Rome by demon horse...A saint humbled by a mere carpenter...A fisherman lured by a mermaid... And fifteen other folk-tales and legends... Told by award-winning writer Susan Price, who ...
Azalin's class go on a school trip to another planet.The planet Earth.Once on Earth, Azalin runs away.Her dream is to be a 'tronic when she grows up: one of the special people who maintain the systems keeping the man-made planet of Newarth alive.But ...
Zoe wants her dead boyfriend back.She's heard all about Elizabeth Beckerdyke. About her being a witch. About her speaking to the dead.Maybe she can raise the dead too?So Zoe goes knocking on the witch's door.Duncan is homeless, a rough sleeperHe's lo...
Then the lantern, swinging from his hand, shifted its light. The Monk expected to see the glint of a chain-mail coat, or the dull buff of a leather jacket sewn with iron rings. But there was nothing below the head...Wandering the grim battlefield,...