Showing results for "I" in Science Fiction

Molly should be doing her homework, but instead, she builds a robot to do it for her. The robot is pretty clever...so clever that it decides to make another robot. Then that robot makes another one. Before long, an army of slightly-too-clever-for-their-own-good robots are running around town causing chaos. But when robot number one gets wind of Molly’s plan to shut them down, the mechanical army set out to get rid of the humanoid once and for all. Now, Molly must race against time to stop the mega-robot invasion...and hand in her homework!

The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its 20th century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of 17th century Europe. 

Brought to you by Puffin. A funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now, perfect for fans of Time Travelling With a Hamster and Wonder. I’m going back in time to save this family. Eleven-year-old Zubair is a seventh son. This means a LOT of big...

Ashleigh and Aiden are 13-year-old twins who promise to always look out for each other. Aiden is more dedicated to the task than Ashleigh, but when it comes to matters of life and death, they both exhibit a fierce protectiveness that will change the course of their lives.

When we last saw George and Harold, they were headed to jail for the rest of their lives. What could be worse? How about being pulled from prison by a time-traveling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers?!!? Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless school principal.

Das ist nicht das Ende der Reise, es ist erst der Anfang. Der Anfang einer Weltraum-Odyssee, die dich in spektakuläre Abenteuer verwickelt, die du nie wieder vergessen wirst. Endlich! Der erste Teil der Kaos-Abenteuer als Hörbuch.

È l'aprile 1978: sono passati tre anni da quando un misterioso virus ha decimato uno dopo l'altro tutti gli adulti di Berlino. In una città spettrale e decadente, gli unici superstiti sono i ragazzi e le ragazze divisi in gruppi rivali, che ogni giorno lottano per sopravvivere con un’unica certezza: dopo i sedici anni, quando meno se lo aspettano, il virus ucciderà anche loro. Tutto cambia quando qualcuno rapisce il piccolo Theo e lo porta via dall’isola dove viveva con Christa e le ragazze dell'Havel.

When Skylar and best friend Dana accept a ride in Nana’s new tuktuk, they don’t expect to travel through time—nor to accidentally kidnap Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh King Tut and turn him into a K-pop sensation! Soon Skylar and Dana are on a whirlwind race through time to put things right before they change history for ever.

Venezia. Su uno dei ponti del sestiere di Cannaregio due ragazzine si scontrano: hanno entrambe un appuntamento da rispettare, sono di corsa, ma l'incontro diventa subito un'occasione per essere curiose l'una dell'altra, per scambiarsi opinioni, per raccontarsi chi sono. Eppure c'è qualcosa che le rende molto particolari. Sì, perché Mirtilla e Nina appartengono a due «tempi» diversi: Nina è nostra contemporanea, Mirtilla viene dalla seconda metà del Cinquecento ed è arrivata nella Venezia di oggi grazie a una piega dello spazio-tempo.

Whether you’re a sunling or an earthling, growing up isn’t easy. Shy nine-year-old Gustafer Yellowgold has to grapple with neighborhood bullies, an over-achieving brother, and parental expectations just like kids on Earth do. He would rather lose himself in comic books and dream the day away than make deliveries for his father’s raisin-butchering business after school. Fateful events put Gustafer at his ultimate crossroad when he sees a darker opportunity to control his own destiny on the Sun.

Otto and Raven are desperate to rescue their friends from the clutches of Anastasia Furan, head of the evil Disciples organisation. First they must track down the location of the Glasshouse, the prison where Furan trains children to become ruthless assassins. But Otto is also being hunted. The three months that Otto has spent following his expulsion from H.I.V.E. have given the Artemis Section - an elite division of the American intelligence services that specialises in capturing the toughest targets and reports only to the president - an opportunity to locate him.

A group of undocumented children with letters for names are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves, they also long to keep memories of their old identities alive. Will they be heard and believed? And what will happen to them if they aren't?

Being a superhero should be fun. After all, a world of super powers is a world where Amazonian juggernauts made of candy battle guys in spandex that drive talking cars. Irene loves that weirdness, loves the game of fighting, and loves being a four-foot-tall woman who still gets to drop big heavy objects on villains' heads. In 1980, that fun is in danger. A mad scientist who murders people for his research has everyone afraid. Two of the friendliest super-powered rivals around stop playing and go for the kill.

Mission 6 : 신형 탄도 미사일 설계도의 밀거래를 막아라! 불법 밀거래를 막으라는 임무를 맡은 강파랑과 바이올렛. 그 배후에 찰리 똑딱 회장과 코스모가 있다는 사실을 알게 된다. 그러다 두 사람은 정체불명 괴한의 습격을...

It's not easy being the only kid in your class who doesn't have six arms and an extra eye in the middle of your forehead. But that's the situation Jacob faces when his dad takes him to the planet Kwarkis. The situation gets worse when Jacob makes a ghastly blunder that just may cost him the thing he loves most.

Young Percy's parents are environmental activists, and Percy is super over it. He would rather stay home and play Xbox than go to demonstrations every weekend. Meanwhile, his father wants to glue himself to a plastic bag factory, and his mum has invented a machine that messes with DNA - and just might bring extinct species back to life. When the neighbour next door suddenly turns into a talking rat, Percy is roped into a hilarious, madcap adventure in which everyone seems to want to get their hands on the species machine.

En ferie ud i rummet går ikke helt som planlagt. På vejen møder Samantha og hendes to venner Peta og Jonni en menneskelignende robot med onde planer. Heldigvis er det ikke den eneste robot, de får at se - den charmerede Matilda dukker nemlig også op. Philip Newth (f. 1939) er en engelskfødt norsk børnebogsforfatter. Han er særlig kendt for sine bøger om robotten Matilda og har vundet flere priser for sit forfatterskab. Han er gift med den norske forfatter Mette Newth og sammen har de to sønner, Eririk og Hege Newth, der også er forfattere.

En dag på vej til skole støder 14-årige Mikkel på noget så usædvanligt som et punkt i tiden. Nu fører kosmiske kræfter ham af sted på en fantastisk rejse til en verden, han slet ikke kunne forestille sig. Mikkel bliver nu nødt til at kæmpe med livet som indsats for at redde Vindenes Folk fra at blive udslettet. Udover en masse spænding og farer møder Mikkel også kærligheden for første gang, og i løbet af den eventyrlige rejse bliver han ikke bare klogere på verden, men også på sig selv.

Daisy, an American girl is sent from New York to stay with her charmingly shambolic family of British cousins. Daisy has had a troubled background but slowly begins to piece herself together with the the help of her super-eccentric and slightly psychic cousins. Not only does Daisy get better as...

Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets that even she doesn't understand. She has two superpowered best friends. In middle school the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it.