Robert Frederick Ltd.

When Bette Danvers` holiday plans were ruined, she immediately thought of Grange Farm and of the many summers she had spent there as a child. She would go back to the farm, she decided, and help her cousin with the harvesting. Frances Cowen has written an exciting, fast-moving story that no girl will be able to put down until the secret of Grange...

A hundred years ago, the agony of the Civil War tore American apart, and caught in the turmoil were thousands of youngsters, too young to die but old enough to face death willingly every day. Tim Morgan was one of these boys. In Fairfax Country, Virginia, he played his part, smuggling much-needed supplies through the Yankee lines to the North. But...

"She thought you were a crook," Fay explained to the young man in Basle station. But Ricky was not abashed - surely anyone running for a train could quite easily be mistaken for a thief. Fay and Julie, Ricky`s friends were not so sure of that, but they were sure that Ricky`s wild ideas about crooks would lead them all into trouble before the end of...

On her return to Greycourts, Sheila finds out thet Christine Barry, the new girl, has been causing trouble. Although the other girls dislike her, Sheila and her friend Priscilla make frieds with Christine, and try to help her. All turns out well in the end, and Christine of the Fourth is well worthy of its place with the other splendid stories in...

Florida – the holiday paradise of America, where the sun always shines and skyscrapers push their way into the clear blue sky. Life is easy beside the sea anad surf of Miami, but only a few miles away is a different world, where the clock turns back centuries – the Everglades. In these dark swamps, where alligators slither into the water, live the...

It sounded like an impossible task: go out into the vast African bush and find man who was reported dead two years ago. But young Frank Henson needs a job, and Mansfield needs a guide to take him on his search, so they join forces. The trail takes them into the heart of the remote bush country on the border of Rhodesia and Mozambique. The further...