Farmer, Penelope

A strange boy appears in the lane one morning. He is invisible to everyone except those he allows to see him. He teaches the children of the village to fly. The children hope they can keep their secret from the rest of the village.

When she awakens on her second day at boarding school, a young girl finds she has gone back in time to 1918.

Relates how Cadmus' quest for his lost sister results in the founding of Thebes.

Since being abandoned by her widowered father, Flora lives with her cousin and struggles with memories of a previous life in which she was the child Penelope.

Stories and poems from many countries explaining the Creation and the different ways people have tried to interpret their world and experiences from the beginning of time.

Both Will and his cousin Becky have some adjusting to do when he comes to live with her family after his mother's death, especially when the ghost of a child coal miner begins his insistent haunting of Will.

A young English girl relates the changes in her life caused by the first World War, especially the death of her brother.

A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.