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Did a spider actually lay its eggs in a woman’s face? Do alligators really live in the New York City sewers? Listeners will be captivated by mysterious urban legends while also learning the facts about each claim. Which rumors hold a hint of truth and which claims are totally bonkers?

Zelda Zipperelli hates her name! She always ends up last in line. Will Zelda's luck ever change?

What begins with a sense that Michael's deceased grandfather might be inhabiting his body soon escalates to "slipping" into to the river of the dead. When Michael slips, he relives moments of his grandfather's life and tries to help him find peace. But each time he ventures into the river it's harder to come out again. Michael will have to depend on an unlikely group of friends to keep him from slipping... permanently. A penetrating twist on the classic ghost story, full of humor and insight about family relationships.

Pick an open spot. Fill a bucket with water, and stay outside the fire ring. It's time to learn the rules of outdoor fire safety!

Let an adult answer the doorbell. Take a friend along when you go outside. It's time to learn the rules of stranger safety.

Put on sunscreen and sturdy shoes. Watch for cars, and stay with your friends. It's time to learn the rules of playground safety!

Put on a helmet. Test the brakes, and check the seat height. It's time to learn the rules of bicycle safety!

Wendell worries about everything. He worries day and night. Will Wendell ever stop worrying?

Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And then Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift"....

Isadora Moon and the New Girl: When a new girl, Ava, joins her class, Isadora is keen to make friends. But Ava's not interested. She'd much rather be back at her old school with her old friends. Isadora's classmates are happy to leave Ava on her own since she clearly doesn't like them, but Isadora figures out that there's something more going on. Isadora Moon and the Frost Festival: Isadora and her family are visiting the Frost Festival, a huge celebration of the winter fairies! There's ice skating, fairground rides, gingerbread houses and lots of delicious fairy hot chocolate. It's magical!

When magic came to Milo Speck, it came in the form of a sock. "Figures," said Milo. So begins Milo's adventure in Ogregon, a place populated by hungry ogres, dino-sized turkeys, kidnapped kids, and - Dad? What's Milo's regular old salesman father doing in Ogregon? For that matter, how did a shrimp like Milo end up there? He's no hero. He can't help those kids. Right? But there's no time for Milo to get the answers.

After a tumultuous first semester in seventh grade, Jed Rivers returns triumphant - or so he thinks. After embracing his undeadness to put his archenemy Robbie in his place, the 13-year-old zombie thought he'd have a much easier time surviving the second semester relatively intact. That was before he came across the antizombie propaganda published by the mysterious NZN Network, a group trying to push Hollywood stereotypes as the truth.

Die geheimnisvolle Prüfung. Livia scheint vom Pech verfolgt zu sein. Ihre Eltern haben sich scheiden lassen und ihre Schulnoten sind schlecht. Dann meldet sie ihre verhasste Mathelehrerin auch noch bei der Schulolympiade an, wo sie sich mit den anderen messen muss, um bessere Noten zu bekommen. Außerdem fühlt sie sich beobachtet und sieht an jeder Ecke einen kleinen schwarzen Frosch mit gelben Punkten. Als sie versucht, ihren mysteriösen Verfolger zu stellen, verwandelt sich der kleine Frosch vor ihren Augen in einen blonden Jungen. Er stellt sich als waschechter Dämon namens Kasimir vor.

After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she's on the run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join. Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt for the Midnight Drum, from which they hope to free Serwa's grandmother.

San Antonio is on lockdown, taken over by the new hive. No one can deny that vampires are back now, but the Vanquishers come to their own painful realisation when they learn that an old friend is behind the vampire attacks. As the Squad hide out at an abandoned combat training facility, honing their vampire-vanquishing skills, they begin to suspect that they're not alone. And when when a vial of Dracula's blood is stolen from the bunker, the Vanquishers race to recover it before it falls into the wrong hands.

For Ruby Pepperdine, the "center of everything" is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi' s hug.

Carnegie Hall, look out! Zoe Elias has big musical dreams. As soon as she gets a glossy baby grand piano, she’ll be on her way. Trouble is, what Zoe gets is a wood-grained, vinyl-seated, wheeze-bag organ. The Perfectone D-60. How will she ever be discovered as a prodigy when her lesson book is...

Meet the kids in Mrs. Z’s wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Olive Little thinks a crafting club would be the perfect way to connect with her classmates—but when her club plans keep falling short, can she still find a way to make a place for herself in Mrs. Z's class?   Olive Little...

In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in October 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: Bone can see the history of a significant object when she touches it. When her best friend, Will Kincaid, asks Bone to "read" the history of his daddy's jelly jar—the jelly jar that was buried alongside his father during the mine cave-in that killed him—Bone is afraid. Even before Bone touches it, she can feel that the jar has its own strange power. With her mother dead, her father gone to war, and Aunt Mattie's assault looming over Bone, she can't bear the idea of losing Will too.

‘Anarchically silly fun!' – Guardian Sidesplitting middle grade comedy, with serious heart (and one very funny llama). Illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan, the official illustrator for World Book Day 2022. It's the Christmas holidays and Yasmin is miserable. Her family don't celebrate Christmas...