Vibrant full-colour artwork adds fresh appeal to this classic tale. Speech bubbles work with the main text to emphasise and enhance the retelling. A running glossary at the foot of each page helps youngsters with any challenging vocabulary without disrupting their reading experience. Endmatter gives details about the author.

Kidnapped is the classic story of David Balfour. Left in poverty when his father dies, David goes to his uncle, but finds himself kidnapped on board a ship. David manages to escape, but is accused of murder and hunted down across the Scottish moors.

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic adventure story by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is 1751, and 17-year-old David Balfour is all alone in the world. Recently orphaned, he receives a letter instructing him to seek out his sole remaining relative at the House of Shaws. But on meeting his uncle Ebenezer, David soon realises that he is a shifty, miserly man with designs on his inheritance. After an attempt on David's life fails,...

Laura cannot contain her excitement when she wins a trip to the Caribbean for herself and her uncle, Calvin Redfern, especially when Tariq, and Skye, accidentally find themselves on board too. But when they dock at Antigua, they discover that Calvin has vanished, and Laura and Tariq are about to be kidnapped by the fearsome Straight A gang.

Stolen from the castle tower... Right into the Prince's arms! When daring Prince Marcelo Berruti rescues Clara Sinclair from a forced wedding, he makes international headlines. Now he's facing a diplomatic crisis... unless he claims the beautiful bride-to-be himself! Outspoken Clara hasn't trusted a soul since her childhood. But she owes dashing Marcelo her life. The least she can do is pretend to the world to be hopelessly in love with him! When...

An archly funny, classic mystery adventure with a magic twist!Lucy Driscoll may be big on gumption but she is down on her luck - and before long finds herself as the new Boot Girl at eccentric Gaunt Hall, working for the rich and sinister-seeming Lord Gaunt. But throughout the country children are going missing and before long Lucy begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Gaunt Hall - could Lord Gaunt have anything to do with the disappearances;...

Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the post-9/11 political chaos and the fiasco of the Arab Spring, coupled with the destabilisation of Syria and Iraq and the rise of ISIS, controls it. The ever-increasing political volatility has offered them new business opportunities, from trafficking millions of refugees to selling...

In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for 33 years, they had first met in Zambia - Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort 40 kilometres south of Somalia. And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged...