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Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible: becoming a British spy.

Third grader Max is heading off on a road trip with Mom. With miles to travel, cousins to meet, and a tall roller coaster to ride (maybe), it will be an adventure! But Max always spends weekends with Dad; will Dad be okay if he's left behind? And will Max be brave enough for all the new explorations ahead of him?

Max is on a mission. Well, two missions. One has been assigned by his British spymasters: Infiltrate the Funkhaus, the center of Nazi radio and propaganda. The other they have forbidden: Find his parents.

When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne’s unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn’t realize that he’s found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems—his mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to be foreclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne’s last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction, they realize that the book holds the key to something incredibly valuable. A treasure that can save his house—and maybe his entire family.

Sara kommt in den Winterferien zurück nach Bruchsal und erlebt mit ihren Freunden ein neues Abenteuer. Ein geheimer Gang zwischen dem Schloss und dem Gymnasium führt sie zurück in die Zeit der Aufklärung und der Schlosserbauer.

Kai und sein Opa sind Kumpel, Kameraden und beste Freunde. Vor allem aber ist Opa Kais größter Held. Doch Opa beginnt langsam zu vergessen - wer er selbst ist und wer sein Enkel ist. Kai muss etwas unternehmen, um seinen Opa nicht zu verlieren! Und so reist er mit ihm in die Vergangenheit. Indem er Opa mitnimmt in dessen Jugend- und Kriegsjahre, hofft er, seine Erinnerung wachrufen zu können, um so seinen Opa zurückzugewinnen. Doch nach und nach erkennt Kai, dass Opas Leben gar nicht so heldenhaft war, wie er es seinem Enkel immer berichtet hat.