This series looks at the facts about pirates and their practical escapades, explodes the myths and legends about these salty sea dogs, and reveals loads of fascinating stuff about pirates and their swashbuckling adventures!

In this history we see how thin the line was between a royalty chartered privateer and a pirate, most notably epitomised by Francis Drake. Then there were the Renegades: Europeans captured by the Barbary corsairs who converted to Islam and became pirate captains in their own right. Some were simply cut-throat drunkards, but many pirate ships were run on surprisingly progressive, democratic principles. The 'golden age' or piracy is examined afresh...

The night that Peter Pan flies into the Darling children's nursery is the night that magic flies into their lives. It's the night that Wendy and her brothers follow Peter out of the window and soar through the sky to Neverland. They discover a world of mermaids, fairies, and pirates, of lost boys, and of Captain Hook.

Queen Norah thinks she knows everything that goes on in the castle. But she is wrong. In 'The Masked Cleaning Ladies Meet the Pirates', Princess Jane and the Masked Cleaning Ladies know what to do with pirates. 'TreeTops Fiction' contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate...

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking hero who ever lived - but it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a hero.

From one of the best-loved and bestselling authors of all time comes and irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World - a classic story of adventure and betrayal. Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses - the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold....

What was it really like to live in a castle during the Middle Ages? What kind of life did a pirate lead in the 1700s? This book gives the answers! Two young boys keep journals of their day-to-day lives in a castle and on board a pirate ship.

What can go wrong on a camping holiday on Callisto? Callisto is the nicest planet in the universe. Or was until Sam and Cherry are kidnapped by evil space pirates and held to ransom in return for the fabulous treasure known as the Golden Queen. What is the Golden Queen - and more importantly - where is it?

Lose yourself in the adventures that unfold as Charlie discovers the hidden worlds in everyone's favourite books. From pirates to aliens to ghosts, there's something for everyone in Charlie's amazing books!