Books with title The Silver Horse

This brand new, thrilling adventure from bestselling 'Horrible Histories' author Terry Deary brings the closing days of the First World War to life. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and John Boyne.It's 1918 and the Great War is entering its final phase. In northern France, young Aimee has just found out that her mother is part of a spy network working with the British. After reluctantly befriending Marius, a German boy who has been left behind by his countrymen, she must try to help him get back behind German lines while evading a traitor she has helped to discover.This page-turning adventure sheds new light on the First World War and will have readers gripped from start to finish.Book band: Dark Blue

The trail to Kalvik leads down from the northward mountains over the tundra which flanks the tide flats, then creeps out upon the salt ice of the river and across to the village. It boasts no travel in summer, but by winter an occasional toil-worn traveller may be seen issuing forth from the Great Country beyond, bound for the open water; while once in thirty days the mail-team whirls out of the forest to the south, pauses one night to leave word of the world, and then is swallowed up in the silent hills. Kalvik, to be sure, is not much of a place, being hidden away from the main-travelled routes to the interior and wholly unknown except to those interested in the fisheries.

"The Silver Horde (1909), is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To accomplish this he must overcome the relentless opposition of the "salmon trust," a fictionalized Alaska Packers' Association, which undercuts his financing, sabotages his equipment, incites a longshoreman's riot and bribes his fishermen to quit. The story line includes a love interest as the protagonist is forced to choose between his fiance, a spoiled banker's daughter, and an earnest roadhouse operator, a woman of "questionable virtue."

This compelling fantasy, set in pre-historic Ireland, tells the story of Dara, the daughter of the Milesian king Nuada. Dara is captured at the age of seven and, for seven years, she lives as a slave dreaming of her beloved father. Finally she is able to escape and she sets out to find her way home. But Dara does not travel alone. She is forced by circumstances to take a reluctant young Firben boy, Neall, with her. The forests of ancient Ireland hold both mystery and danger for the two travelers. Along their way Dara and Neall meet Edain who seems to have magical powers, flee from the giant brothers, and escape the dream world of Demnas. Dara arrives safely back among her people and discovers that the father she had dreamed about has changed and seems to no longer care for her. Reentering the world she left had behind is not easy but Dara has come too far and overcome too many dangers to give up on her dream.

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