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Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world’s most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking hated school and preferred to spend his free time building model airplanes, inventing board games, and even building his own computer. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails into her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope.

Did you know that NASA uses mathematics for space travel? Meet Katherine Johnson, one of the first African-American and female mathematicians who worked for NASA. Learn about her life growing up in segregated America and her journey to pursue her education and dreams. Her mathematical calculations helped American astronauts to go to space, land on the moon, and return to earth safely in 1969!

Monsters Unleashed - where you catch virtual-reality monsters on your cellphone - is one of the hottest mobile games around, and Bex and Charlie just can't stop playing. They even check out an old map in Charlie's grandfather's attic in hopes of discovering some forgotten places in town where the rarest monsters might hide. But they find a strange machine up there, too, and after Charlie switches it on, the wifi goes down...and Bex's entire catalog of monsters vanishes!

After their scary adventure, Bex and Charlie have sworn never to play Monsters Unleashed again. Then Veratrum Games Corp releases a new augmented reality game featuring aliens instead of monsters, and the best friends just can't resist. After all, everyone loves it, even their science teacher, because it includes real star charts. But when they go to an observatory on a class trip, and open the game near a radio telescope, they get more than they bargained for: real aliens.

Have you lost any teeth yet? When one of Jennifer’s loose teeth gets stuck in an apple, Yo learns about the part of growing up that includes losing baby teeth and growing shiny new grown-up teeth. He also learns about the best part of losing baby teeth—getting a visit from the tooth fairy!

Italien, Catania: Die dreizehnjährige Lucia führt ein ganz normales Leben, bis sich plötzlich eine brennende Flamme in ihrem Inneren regt und aus ihren Händen im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Funken sprühen. Das allein wäre schon problematisch genug, denn Feuermagie ist schon lange verboten, aber zusätzlich jagen sie nun auch noch unheimliche Nebelwesen. Gemeinsam mit ihrem altklugen Feuersalamander Yuki und dem geheimnisvollen Finn flieht sie durch ein verborgenes Portal nach Flammaris, dem einst leuchtenden Feuerland, das inzwischen von dichtem Nebel verschluckt wird.

What happens when a young elephant steps on a buried land mine? What happens when a sea turtle’s flipper is injured by a predator? Thanks to recent advances in technology, we have new ways to design and build prosthetic body parts that can help these animals thrive. Discover the stories of how veterinarians, doctors, and even students from around the world used 3D printing and other techniques to build bionic body parts for these amazing animals.

Bei einem ihrer Ausritte entdecken Elli, Maris und Mona eine zauberhafte Herde wilder Seepferdchen. Sie sind wunderschön und schimmern in allen Farben des Regenbogens. Doch jemand ist den wilden Tieren auf den Fersen. Wer steckt hinter den Fallen im Seetang-Wald? Und werden die Freunde verhindern können, dass die Regenbogen-Seepferdchen in Gefangenschaft geraten? Teil 2 der süßen Unterwasser-Abenteuer-Reihe über Freundschaft, Mut und Zusammenhalt. Gelesen von Kristin Alia Hunold und sanft untermalt mit Unterwassergeräuschen und Titelmusik.

In Tobys Leben kehrt einfach keine Ruhe ein. Nachdem die Verbrecherin La Primera aus Bonfire Bay verschwunden ist, muss Toby sich mit dem Brief der mysteriösen Gilde auseinandersetzen. Wer steckt hinter der Maske der Gilde und was wollen sie von ihm? Die Antworten sucht Toby gemeinsam mit seinem Drachen Lou und seinen Freunden Ellie und Mango. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine antike Drachenstatue und kommen den Familiengeheimnissen, die sich um Tobys Großvater ranken auf die Spur.

In ein Internat für Kinder aus Märchenfamilien zu gehen, ist nicht so wunderbar wie es klingt, wenn man vom Froschkönig abstammt. Es ist schon schwierig genug, 12 zu sein, aber sich unkontrolliert in einen Frosch zu verwandeln, ist noch viel, viel schlimmer! Und das passiert Leonie ausgerechnet vor Tristan, dem neuen, gut aussehenden Jungen, von dem keiner so richtig weiß, aus welcher Familie er eigentlich kommt. Als Leonie die alte Märchenkammer im Dornröschenturm entstauben muss, öffnet sie ein Buch, das ihr dort in die Hände fällt. Das hätte sie besser nicht getan.

Aufregende Neuigkeiten auf Schloss Rosenfels! Die Magische Märchenmeisterschaft steht an, und Leonies Schule wurde zum Ausrichtungsort der Spiele ernannt. Märchenschulen aus aller Welt reisen an. Und Leonie muss unbedingt gewinnen. Denn der Hauptgewinn, den die Scheherazade Schule stiftet, ist eine Dschinn-Lampe, die Dinge verschwinden lassen kann. Wie geschaffen, um das verwunschene und zunehmend rebellische Buch „Finsterwelt“ ein für alle Mal loszuwerden. Doch als die Spiele beginnen, passieren dem Team von Tristan und Leonie plötzlich komische und teils sogar gefährliche Dinge.

Omega Morales’s family has been practicing magic for centuries in Noche Buena. But over the years, the town's reputation for the supernatural is no longer one the people carry with pride. So Omega’s family keeps to themselves, and in private, they’re Empaths—diviners who can read and manipulate the emotions of people and objects around them. But Omega’s powers don’t quite work, and it leaves her feeling like an outsider in her own family.

Liam Saunders-Chang is one of the last humans left on Mars. The son of two scientists who have been racing against time to create technology vital to humanity's survival, Liam, along with his friend Phoebe, will be on the last starliner to depart before Mars, like Earth before it, is destroyed. Or so he thinks. Because before this day is over, Liam and Phoebe will make a series of profound discoveries about the nature of time and space and find out that the human race is just one of many in our universe locked in a dangerous struggle for survival.

Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped our exploding sun with their lives, are in stasis for the decade-long journey to the rogue planet Delphi, where they hope to meet up with the rest of the human refugees, find help for their injured parents, and pass along the devastating things they discovered on Mars: that someone destroyed their world intentionally, and that that someone might still be after them, trying to finish the job. Phoebe is carrying her own dark secret. One that finds her waking up secretly at various points in their journey, changing their path through space.

When the universe sends a life preserver, Evie knows to grab it. So it’s weird when a talking monkey shows up and tells her that her plain, hardworking tailor mother was actually the head of a guild of magical weavers who control the fate of humanity. He also comes bearing the information that her mother is trapped in Diyu, the Chinese underworld, and that only Evie can get her back. No pressure.

In the town of Howler's Hollow, conjuring magic is strictly off-limits. Only nothing makes Delpha McGill's skin crawl more than rules. So when she finds her family's secret book of hexes, she's itching to use it to banish her mama's money troubles. She just has to keep it quieter than a church mouse-not exactly Delpha's specialty.

Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them: the aquarium.

Eleven-year-old stuttering Darby believes she's supposed to be perfect, just like her mother demands. But summer away at camp promises temporary escape. There, she befriends twelve-year-old Justin, who hasn't uttered a word since his dad died, and ten-year-old Naz, who is struggling to learn English. When mysterious calliope music from a nearby warehouse grants the trio power to communicate without words, they sneak inside to find out why.

In Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault, Fernie and Gustav find themselves battling another shadowy foe - The Shadow Eater. He is after one thing, The Nightmare Vault, which his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, will use to unleash the most terrifying and threatening shadows into the world. As Fernie and Gustav race to stop the Shadow Eater, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.

A dynamic, exciting circus setting is the backdrop of this engaging fantasy featuring a fantastic cast of characters whose extraordinary talents are cleverly presented in an unforgettable mystery and coming-of-age story.