Jennifer Nielsen

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realises her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her father makes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight against the Nazis. Lidia wants to follow...

For a climber, looking back can mean the difference between survival ... and a fall. Twelve-year-old Atlas Wade has been trying to forget the memory of his mother by climbing mountains ever since she died three years ago. When his father signs them up for an expedition group hoping to be the first to ever summit the unconquerable Mount Everest,...

Hazel Rothbury is travelling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel’s mother is sending her to the US to work in a factory so that she might send money back home to help her family make ends meet. But Hazel harbours a secret dream: She wants to...

What happens when a plague isn't all that kills... As a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor's wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and she is sent to Attic Island,...

Nothing is as it seems in the kingdom of Antora. Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile when a group of rebels snatch her as she reluctantly travels home. The kidnappers want her to retrieve the lost Olden Blade, the only object that can destroy the immortal king, but Kestra is not an obedient captive. Simon, one of her...

Magnitude by Jennifer Nielsen San Francisco, 1906. When Cora leaves her house in the early morning hours of April 18th, she expects trouble to find her, like it somehow always does. But as she makes her way to the San Francisco docks to look for her father, the earth begins to shake and suddenly, Cora realises that she’s not just...