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Based on true accounts of hauntings, and told with a master storyteller’s eye for detail, these collections will scare, astound, and instruct kids of all ages. This book is the perfect spine-chilling companion for young listeners on long journeys. This collection of chilling ghost stories takes place on highways, byways, and aboard a variety of types of transportation.

Dragon Riders is an amazing adventure about three children caught up in a timeless war. Their lives are turned upside down by an attack on the monastery where they live. Their flight leads them into an encounter with a young dragon, which they save from certain death.

Tani dreams of fulfilling her destiny as a Serpent Rider, fighting alongside an elemental serpent to defend her village against monsters. More than anything, she wants to protect her little sister Ligaya, the village princess who’s tasked with memorizing their community’s history, including the tale of Great Bakunawa, the most powerful and feared sea serpent that swallowed six of the world’s seven moons.

È la versione più interessante e avventurosa dell’antica leggenda delle miniere che l’antico re d’Israele Salomone aveva scoperto in Africa, e che lo avevano reso immensamente ricco. Teatro della vicenda è un’Africa molto diversa da quella di oggi, un’Africa di due secoli fa, intatta e selvaggia, terra di esplorazioni, percorsa da uomini d’avventura che sfidano la sorte tra continui colpi di scena, in cerca delle favolose miniere custodite da una feroce e mitica tribù che vive in una valle inaccessibile.