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For Archie, the start of summer means another stint at Camp Shady Brook, where there is a lot more to the camp than meets the eye - just like Archie and his now blended family. But thanks to a con Archie developed last year, he’s finally somebody…and he’s not going to lose that status to the new girl, Vivian. For Vivian, thanks to an incident That Shall Not Be Named, her summer of exotic travels with Mom and Dad has turned into traveling to a dump of a summer camp in the middle of nowhere. But thanks to perfect timing, Vivian soon finds herself in a ring of kids trying to out-con each other - and discovers Camp Shady Brook is more like Camp Shady Crook.

When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.

SKANDAR MEETS OLIVER TWIST IN THIS BLOCKBUSTING NEW MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE SERIES – PERFECT FOR FANS OF PERCY JACKSON! “Utterly fabulous” ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG “I have never been as quickly hooked by a book. Debut author? And it’s this good? Shadow Thieves is the real thing” MICHAEL...

With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.

On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Archibald McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Archie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels." But March learns that his father is not talking about hidden loot. He's talking about Jules, the twin sister March never knew he had. No sooner than the two find each other, they're picked up by the police and sent to the world's worst orphanage. It's not hard time, but it feels like it.

Ahoi! Florentine Blix ermittelt auf hoher See: Am Fördegymnasium wird eine Segel-AG angeboten. Bo ist begeistert und selbst Maja will teilnehmen - doch Florentine Blix kann sich kaum etwas Schlimmeres vorstellen. Sie hat sowieso keine Zeit, denn an der Küste wurde eine Flaschenpost angespült. Ein neuer mysteriöser Fall? Im Brief scheint es um einen Raub zu gehen und um einen Schatz auf einer Schatzinsel! Sogar ein Plan ist dabei - auch wenn er fast unleserlich ist. Liegt die Diebesbeute etwa auf der Ochseninsel vergraben, die die Segel-AG am Wochenende ansteuern will?

It's 1914, and Darleen Darling's film adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping set up by her studio becomes all too real. Suddenly Darleen finds herself in the hands of dastardly criminals who have just nabbed Miss Victorine Berryman, the poor-little-rich-girl heiress of one of America’s largest fortunes. Soon real life starts to seem like a bona fide adventure serial, complete with dramatic escapes, murderous plots, and a runaway air balloon. Will Darleen and Victorine be able to engineer their own happily-ever-after, or will the villains be victorious?

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along. But Eleanor has secrets of her own - secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

"Det är nåt skumt med tiden. När vi har roligt flyger den iväg. När vi har tråkigt sniglar den sig fram." Det enda Ikas föräldrar har tid för är jobb, jobb och mera jobb. Om Ika kunde skulle hon ge dem mer tid i present. Men tiden går inte att pausa så det faller på hennes lott att lämna sin jobbiga lillebror på förskolan. Trots att Ika och bästa vännen Ibsen är sena till skolan kan de inte låta bli att stanna till vid byggarbetsplatsen med den stora flammande skräphögen – den är tusen gånger mer spännande än de tråkiga lektionerna.