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Spaceboy, from Children's author David Walliams. America. The 1960s. Stuck on a remote farm with her awful aunt, twelve-year-old orphan Ruth spends every night gazing at the stars, dreaming of adventure. One night she spots a flying saucer blazing across the sky… before crash-landing in a...

This new fantasy-adventure series from N. D. Wilson, bestselling author of 100 Cupboards, pits a misfit twelve-year-old against a maniacal villain with a deadly vendetta. This one-of-a kind story is must read for fans of Brandon Mull and Soman Chainani, and the start of a thrilling tale from a...

Outlaws of Time #2: The Song of Glory and Ghost has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Astrelune, la puissante cité indépendante. Imaginez une métropole où des tapis volants côtoient des dirigeables, où des individus se promènent en pyjama et où des ingénieurs déclenchent la pluie et le beau temps. Holly Nightingale appartient à cet univers étrange. Simple employée au Musée national, elle voit son existence basculer le jour où sa jeune sœur disparaît.

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass. Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the...

N. D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns with an action-packed adventure that will captivate fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones with lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure. For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside...

With the help of family and friends, Annie and Liam's wedding day looks as if it's going to be perfect until everything starts to go wrong. Liam's father doesn't show up, nor do the magic-wielding guests. Members of the wedding party come down with strange afflictions, Annie's gown is ruined, a storm floods the castle grounds, and an unknown king lays siege to the castle. Queen Karolina decides that they need the help of her fairy godmother, Moonbeam, but a pea-soup fog keeps the messengers from leaving.

#1 New York Times bestseller D. J. MacHale launches this part sci-fi, all action adventure, multiplatform series. Earth is about to go dark. Without a new power source, life as we know it will be toast. A global competition is under way to determine which four kids will join the secret mission...

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars...all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the chain he found, but soon he is drawing the twin suns and humming the music of a hanorah. As Tommy absorbs the art and language of the Valorim, their enemies target him.

À peine arrivé au Chalet des dragons pour une semaine d’entraînement de basket-ball, Laurence a une sensation étrange. Après un rêve bizarre lors du trajet en autobus, le voilà maintenant observé par Gustave, le chat de la propriétaire du chalet! Mais tout cela n’est rien comparé à la mystérieuse légende racontée lors du premier feu de camp: les dragons existeraient! Persuadé que son rêve a un lien avec cette légende, le garçon décide de mener l’enquête.

Clark thought he knew what grief was. Addie thought she understood the dangers of the Tempest Sea. They couldn't have been more wrong. When their only chance at survival lands them on opposite ends of an island that shouldn't exist, they will both be forced to contend with the consequences of their latest mistakes—and each other's. Will they be able to keep the promises they made one another, even as loss and circumstance morphs them into the very people they never thought they would be? Or will their relationship be the next casualty in this never-ending battle?

It was just your typical, run-of-the-mill scout field trip—that is, until Kit spotted an object from space plummeting to Earth. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka...

The theme park of your dreams is back in this action-packed sequel as Cam Walker and his friends take on creepy carnivals, insidious tech, and a nightmarish new enemy to save the world. An electrifying illustrated series for fans of Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The most spectacular theme park in...

Mazes and mind games await in this epic third book about the theme park of your dreams, where Cam Walker goes head-to-head with the villains who have been after Futureland from the start. An electrifying illustrated series for fans of Spider-Man: Miles Morales. "Hold on tight, Futureland will be...

When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a sinister force from stealing the park's tech and taking over the world. An electrifying illustrated series with the Afrofuturism of Black Panther that took the world by storm. Perfect for fans of Spider-Man...

Willy and Peter need to get as far as possible from their sister's dumb kindergarten pageant. But they never expected to blast their butts into space! There they make a disgusting discovery that could wipe out the moon in one gross stink bomb. Do they have enough gas in their guts to repel gassy green aliens from Uranus? Can farts alone rocket them back to earth? And how did their sister's hamster get into the space capsule and chew up all the wires?

Après avoir sauvé le père Noël et le lapin de Pâques de l’emprise de monsieur Setteur, Rom et Nat sont devenus des héros aux yeux de leurs concitoyens et des médias. Toute cette attention entraîne les deux enfants dans un dangereux rapport de rivalité, dont ils devront se sortir pour sauver les enfants du quartier d’une nouvelle menace : Madame Wenham. Quelle est la nature véritable de cette enseignante dont les exigences donnent froid dans le dos? Et pourquoi le malheur s’abat-il soudainement sur ses élèves?

Bobby meant for his adventure to be nice and safe…as safe as the Prehistoric World could be, anyway. He would meet small plant eating dinosaurs, while the huge meat eaters stayed in the background. Sadly, his plan went off the rails immediately, when an exploding volcano left a small, injured baby dinosaur in the path of destruction. Now he needs to choose: Does he risk his life to find the baby’s family, or does he abandon the helpless creature and pursue his nice, safe adventure?

Since Bobby liked history and Carly didn’t, going on an adventure to Ancient Egypt seemed like a safe compromise. They have amazing temples and cool statues, so there should be something for everyone. What Bobby and Carly couldn’t have known is that a disgruntled priest had kidnapped the royal cat, and the Pharaoh’s sister would do anything to get her back. Now Bobby and Carly have to decide if the gratitude of royalty is worth the danger to life and limb if they dare to follow the priest into the ultimate forbidden place: The Valley of the Kings.