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The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring. And a young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations. Something is coming to shake the earth. Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice. Unless the lost city of night can be found.

Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful...

Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since finding a loving family with the Kavanaghs, his daily life has been all human. And now he's facing one of the greatest human challenges - starting secondary school. But Sam barely has time to worry about the strange stuff teachers say (why do they call it the Great War when it sounds like was anything but great?) before he is thrust back into the world of monsters.

Set in a world inspired by pre-Shogun era Japan, this is a stunning debut fantasy in the vein of Grace Lin about how a young pearl diver goes to the ends of the earth to rescue her twin sister, who has been stolen by a ghost whale. Kai and Kishi share the same futon, the same face, and the same...

Mog is chasing a butterfly one day, when something happens to her paw… Ouch! “She’ll have to go to the vee ee tee,” says Mrs Thomas. But before they can make her better, Mog causes a great ruckus at the vet’s surgery.

It is a well-known fact that fairies are born from a baby's first laugh. What is not as well documented is how monsters come into being. This is the story of a creature who is both strange and unique. When he hatches down in the vast underground lair where monsters dwell, he looks just like a human boy - much to the disgust of everyone watching. Even the grumpy gargoyles who adopt him and nickname him ‘Imp’ only want him to steal chocolate for them from the nearby shops. He’s a child with feet in both worlds, and he doesn’t know where he fits.

The story of biracial twin sisters—one black, one white—and the summer that tests their strong bond, from the author of Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It. When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made...

Two remarkable tales featuring Cymbeline Igoo from the bestselling and Carnegie shortlisted author Adam Baron. BOY UNDERWATER Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimming. Not ever. Not once. But how hard can it be? He’s Googled front crawl and he’s found his dad’s old pair of...

Simon veut construire un garage tout seul. Gaspard, son petit frère, veut ajouter des pompes à essence au garage. Et sans le faire exprès, Gaspard casse le garage de Simon ! Horreur ! Une méga GIGA grande bagarre éclate.

C’est décidé, Maélie ira faire la connaissance de sa tante. De cette femme qui, physiquement du moins, ressemble tant à sa mère, et qui l’a bien connue. Peut-être l’adolescente réussira-t-elle ainsi à en apprendre davantage sur son passé ? Et justement, la semaine de relâche approche : ce serait le moment idéal. Avec difficulté, elle parvient à convaincre Sam de la laisser partir là-bas. Mais Jasper est du voyage, ce qui complique les choses. En effet, les difficultés du garçon rendront le périple beaucoup plus compliqué.

In this story from India, a farmer's three lazy sons don't want to work. They sit around dreaming of making a lot of gold. When their mother tells them of gold buried in a field, they ask her how to bring the gold to the surface. Through clever suggestions, their mother explains how to thed the fields as they discover the true riches offered by hard work. Illustrated by Tom Wrenn.

Thirteen-year-old twins Gabby and Trent Manning are Connecticut's youngest paranormal investigators. Both have inherited "the gift" from their grandparents, the Mannings, whose legendary ghost hunts inspired several books and movies—but whose names have been nearly forgotten since their untimely deaths years ago. Armed with EMF machines, flashlights, and recording equipment, the twins' mom drags them all over New England in an attempt to bring their family back into the limelight.

Lights! Camera! Moose! MOOSE? Yes, Moose! When a movie director tries to capture the life of a moose on film, he's in for a big surprise. It turns out the moose has a dream bigger then just being a moose--he wants to be an astronaut and go to the moon. His forest friends step in to help him, and...

In het paleis van de kalief maakt de vizier bochtige plannen. Het leven van de kalief is in gevaar. De drie meisjes proberen zich er niet mee te bemoeien, maar kunnen ze dat aan? Peter Gotthardt is in 1946 geboren in Denemarken, vlakbij Kopenhagen. Als kind was hij dol op lezen en bracht hij veel van zijn tijd door in het bibliotheek waar hij veel geschiedenisboeken en avonturenboeken las.rnrnGotthardt heeft meer dan 60 boeken voor kinderen geschreven, waarvan er vele zich in het rijk van de elfen bevinden.