Angie and her twin brother, Billy, catch a steam train to school every day. Their father is a signalman on the local railway line. But things are changing. There are rumours that the line is going to be closed, and at school the new headmistress is determined to believe that Angie is a troublemaker.
Hurt, almost defeated, Angie fights - and against all odds she finally triumphs in a spectacular way.

The Red King controls his forest kingdom not just by force of arms, but by spreading disease. All who question his authority are infected with the deadly red fever. Who would dare oppose such a man? Only a tiny band of entertainers - a magician, an acrobat, a monkey and a bear...... How could so unlikely a group possibly challenge the Red King in his stronghold? How could they hope to survive, let alone win?

It seems simple enough for David and Jem to release the two baboons from the experimental research station where they are doomed to die. But when they discover the baboons are no longer capable of looking after themselves in the African bush, David and Jem are forced to stay and protect them. And that's when their problems truly begin....

The earth of our distant future has become a strange and frightening place. Now, thousands of years later, two off-worlder humans, Anna and Joe, are sent back to the wild and unpopulated planet to try to begin human life all over again. But what they discover is a world far more confusing, far more powerful, than they'd ever imagined. Rats that seem to reason for themselves? Creatures that communicate in ancient human codes? What is going on?