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Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtail Island off the shores of Lake Erie. It’s the first time that she and her sister will have seen the old house since their mom passed away. And while her stepfather and his boys are okay, the island’s always been full of happy memories—and now everything is different. When Nadine, a close family friend, tells Lark about a tragic boat accident that happened off the coast many years before, Lark's enthralled with the story.

Brooklyn girl Kaylani McKinnon feels like a fish out of water. She's spending the summer with family friends in their huge house on Martha's Vineyard, and the vibe is definitely snooty. Still, there are beautiful beaches, lots of ice cream, and a town full of fascinating Black history. Plus a few kids her age who seem friendly. Until the shocking death of a popular teenage boy rocks the community to its core. Was it a drowning? A shark attack? Or the unthinkable—murder?

There’s no doubt about it: These kids are nerds. Awkward, unpopular, uncool as uncool can be—and yet, there’s something about these “nerds” that nobody else knows. These dweebs are actually superspies who use their dorky skills to battle the evil Hyena and other villainous baddies.

Un détective peut-il prendre des vacances ? Hercule Poirot va le découvrir à ses dépends… Plongez dans une enquête estivale aux côtés du plus célèbre des enquêteurs belges.

Frank and Joe are two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective. The Hardy Boys are joined by two friends, Chet and Biff, for a winter campout in a cabin on a remote island in Barmet Bay. But there seem to be others interested in the cabin, and a secret that it might hold. A sinister stranger orders them off the island, and when the boys don't comply, their food supplies are stolen.

The Missing Chums is the fourth book in the original Hardy Boys series. Chet and Biff, friends of Frank and Joe Hardy, depart for a long-planned boating excursion, but mysteriously disappear in a storm. The Hardy Boys fear the worst when they can find nothing but a small amount of wreckage along the course Chet and Biff were to follow. Suddenly, Frank and Joe's mother receives a ransom note—for them!

In the second installment of the Century Quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario continues the mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve. Four kids. A wooden top. And four postcards with secret instructions. New York City, March 15 Another mysterious artifact...

Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.Rome, December 29.A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing...

With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to...

Matt Stevens is as tough as a steak from the school cafeteria. He's a seventh grade private eye, and he just did something he said he's never do. He accepted a job from Vincent "Vinny Biggs" Biggio, the kid behind every illegal deal made at Franklin Middle School, from black market candy to forged hall passes.

Leave the lights on for this first book in a new thriller series! The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Pendragon invites you to enter The Library, where the stories you can’t finish just might finish you. There’s a place beyond this world where spirits tell their tales—stories...

Discover the dangers locked behind the cupboard doors in the first book in the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 100 cupboard doors leading to 100 worlds of adventure! Henry isn’t brave, but when he hears a thumping and scratching on the other side of his bedroom wall, he can’t...

The next fast-paced, thrilling adventure from bestselling author D. J. MacHale! Check out a book and fall under its spell . . . literally. Marcus is an agent of the Library—a place filled with tales that don’t have an ending. Mysteries that won’t be solved until Marcus and his friends Theo...

Dans un coin de la cour d’école, un grand cordon jaune, comme celui qui délimite une scène de crime, a été installé entre les arbres. Dans cette zone désormais interdite, un trou a été creusé puis rempli de terre à nouveau et couvert de fougères déracinées. Mais pourquoi ? Se peut-il qu’un cadavre y soit enterré ? Des vers de terre géants seraient-ils en train d’envahir la clairière de la cour ? Ou peut-être s’agit-il du lit d’un zombie ?... Tout comme les autres élèves, Jacob et ses amis Axel et Marie-Maxime élaborent des hypothèses farfelues.

Thomas, un jeune surdoué de 15 ans, participe à un projet scolaire particulier. Il propose de créer à son école un jeu d’évasion ayant pour thème les oeuvres de Shakespeare. En faisant quelques recherches, il découvre que le célèbre écrivain ne serait peut-être pas le véritable auteur des pièces qu’on lui attribue. Sans le vouloir, il vient confirmer ce que les partisans de la théorie de Bacon croyaient depuis longtemps, c’est-à-dire que seul un noble aristocrate tel que Francis Bacon aurait pu écrire ces textes.

This sixth book in the series is a great combination of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl. Tom Fitzgerald, better known as the Great Brain, is struggling to stay reformed now that his friends have threatened to shut him out if he...

Picket, Heather, Jo, and your favorite Green Ember heroes are back for a thrilling new adventure. In the days after their arrival at Halfwind Citadel, the friends are caught up in a desperate fight for the cause when an internal conspiracy threatens to unravel the growing strength of rabbitkind’s resistance.

Anatole et sa classe partent en sortie scolaire : M Caron, leur maître, les emmène voir une exposition qui doit leur révéler leurs super pouvoirs ! Mais la visite ne se déroule pas comme prévu et les enfants sont très étonnés des résultats. Et si les super pouvoirs étaient d'une toute autre nature que ce à quoi ils pensent ?

Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : À la poursuite de l'oeuf d'or ; Disparition au château ; Tommy contre les voleurs. Avec 2,9 millions de lecteurs, J'aime lire est le magazine jeunesse le plus lu en France ! Ses courts romans écrits et imaginés spécialement pour les enfants de 7 à 10 ans nourrissent leur imaginaire tout en les faisant entrer dans le monde enchanté de la littérature de jeunesse.

Un mystérieux télégramme sème la panique à bord d'un transatlantique. Le célèbre Arsène Lupin ferait partie des passagers. S'agit-il de Monsieur R.. comme l'indique la missive ? Et si c'était le dernier fait d'armes du gentleman cambrioleur ?