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Franklin W. Dixon was a pseudonym used by several authors writing series books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, including The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series. This collection introduces The Hardy Boys, two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective: In The Tower Treasure, The House On The Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill.

While investigating a mysterious old house high on a cliff, Joe and Frank Hardy hear a scream and are scared away thinking the place might be haunted. Their dad has been hired by a pharmaceutical firm to find missing drug shipments and calls on the boys to help. He disappears at one point and his sons team up to rescue him from whatever happened. They made an extremely brave rescue of their dad from unscrupulous smugglers.

From the team that brought you Spirit Animals and Tombquest, the second installment in the exciting series that invites you to step inside the ghost story. The spooky, second installment of the exciting Shadow House series!

Buildings have memories. Places bear scars. We've all had those moments - a chill in the air, a sense that something terrible once happened where we stand. But some houses are more than scary. They're hungry. Larkspur House has lured five kids inside, and they're trapped. The five will have to look carefully - there are clues to the house's secrets scattered all over the grounds, and if they can figure out the past, it might show them a way out of their terrifying present.

Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan may have made it out of Shadow House - but the grounds are a whole new nightmare. Someone they thought was a friend is hunting them, and there's no place that's safe now that they've woken the shadow creature. If they want to survive, they'll have to figure out once and for all what the house wants from them, and what - or who - they'll need to leave behind in order to escape...or risk being trapped within Shadow House forever.

When Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens’ housekeeper, learns that she cannot afford to keep her childhood home, the Crooked House, the Aldens want to help. For years, there has been an unsolved riddle about the house, and solving it could lead to a treasure! Will the treasure save the Crooked House? Can the Boxcar Children find it in time?

Years ago, a man vanished from the yellow house on Surprise Island. Why? The Aldens have found a clue to the mystery!

Hace muchos años un hombre desapareció do la casa amarilla de la isla de las sorpresas. ¡Los hermanos Alden han encontrado una pista para resolver este intrigante misterio!

Barely having survived his last adventure, it isn’t long before Peter Green is cast into peril once more. Thankfully, he seems to be getting a grasp of his “Other” abilities–his magic abilities–and it's starting to give him an edge in the battle against the victims of the otherworld. But what happens when disaster strikes where it hurts him the most, and his new best friends are placed in great danger? This may not be a mission that Peter and his friends return from.

Beste Freunde halten zusammen! Adelheids bester Freund Benni hat mal wieder nichts als Blödsinn im Kopf. Und Adelheid hat alle Hände voll zu tun, um das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Doch das geht oft gründlich schief. Wie zum Beispiel bei Bennis Versuch, seinen Opa mit Adelheids Oma zu verheiraten. Oder als Benni Klassensprecher werden will. Wofür er natürlich Adelheids Hilfe braucht. Genau wie bei dem Vorfall, als Bennis Fußball völlig unabsichtlich in Frau Brösels Fenster landet... Und dann ist da noch die Sache mit dem Lesen, das Benni so gar nicht kann.