Early Blackbirds 2018 (set)

The Alati collection

Mia Alati gets a shock when thieves arrive at her family's villa in the Italian countryside. They have come to steal her father's fabulous art collection. The thieves have guns, but Mia and her grandmother are smart. When they are taken prisoner, the two of them use some quick and clever thinking to get out of a dangerous situation.

The singing stones

'Find the stones... You will find the way to help all of Avondel.' Finn doesn't understand the note that his great aunt gave him, but he doesn't have time to think about it. When soldiers come to his village looking for him, Finn has to escape and go on a dangerous journey. He soon learns that only he can defeat the evil warlord Gondar and bring happiness back to the land. But he'll need the help of the singing stones, and of the strange, wonderful friends he meets along the way.

The cave of the jaguar

The almost 18-year-old Jim Franklin travels from Vancouver to Guatemala, where he will be staying with his uncle Simon in a small and remote village for three months. One day, English-speaking strangers visit the village and disappear again. Not long after this, uncle Simon also disappears. Jim is afraid of what has happened to him, because the villagers had clearly been upset with Simon. In order to find him, Jim follows a couple of villagers and ends up in a cave in the jungle. There he finds an ancient treasure and… human remains.