Showing results for "Victoria" in Literature & Fiction

Successful two-man canoeing requires teamwork. Cousins Ben and Jude must learn to work together to avoid a disaster on the Delaware River.

Siblings Michelle and William are out on a caving adventure when they end up losing their way.

Sean isn't looking forward to a family camping trip that includes his new stepsister. She's five years younger than he is, she talks all the time, and she has a pink backpack. It's hard for Sean to imagine that he will ever feel like Christina's big brother.

Brothers Steve and Chris must fight their way out of an avalanche while on a Rocky Mountains ski trail.

Cass (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob) is in Paris, where Cass’s parents are filming their show about the world’s most haunted cities. Sure, it’s fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there’s true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs. When Cass awakens a frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-developing skills as a ghost hunter - and turn to friends both old and new to help her unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit is only growing stronger.

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"....

Olaf, l'adorable bonhomme de neige d'Arendelle, adore la lecture. Un jour, un message inattendu mène Olaf et ses amis Anna, Kristoff et Sven à rechercher un endroit mystérieux appelé Haus-Biblio. Cette histoire orignale Audible raconte l'aventure de nos amis jusqu'à Haus-Biblio tandis qu'ils traverseront des montagnes, qu'ils chercheront des monstres et qu'ils discuteront en compagnie de gentils moutons. Durant son voyage, Olaf se fera de nouveaux amis et découvrira de nouvelles histoires passionnantes.

Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The book was an immediate commercial and critical success. Little Women has three major themes: domesticity, work, and true love. It has been made into innumerable adaptations for stage and screen and is an American classic.

A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the world. Gus doesn't want to make friends. She also doesn't want to be intrigued by the cat-lady teacher at her new school, or the Riley's Comet project that she and her seaweed-eating science partner...

Victoria es una lectora voraz. Sueña con duelos y persecuciones, misiones peligrosas en Siberia y con que un alienígena se lleve a su hermana para siempre. Por desgracia, vive en el pueblo más tranquilo y aburrido del mundo. Sin embargo, de repente empiezan a ocurrir cosas inexplicables: su...

Egipto, 1346 a.C.: Desde que tiene uso de razón, la pequeña Amunet ha sido capaz de comunicarse con los animales, pero su vida da un vuelco cuando los sacerdotes de Amón, el clero más poderoso del Antiguo Egipto, descubren su prodigioso don. Convencidos de que es la pieza que necesitaban en...

A vivid historical fiction account of the community activism behind San Diego's Chicano Park—home to the largest outdoor mural collection in the U.S.—and just one example of the Mexican American community’s rich history of resistance and resilience. Barrio Logan, one of San Diego’s...

Dicen que a la hora de vengarse el más débil puede ser el más feroz. Y en Silverville, Colorado, una venganza está a punto de fulminar todos sus sueños de plata. Cuando en 1872 Grace Mallory se instala en la antigua mansión de su familia política, los rumores no tardan en circular por el...

Victoria bor i et kedeligt hus med sine to kedelige og meget voksne forældre. Hun har ikke nogen bror eller søster, men om natten når huset er stille, får Victoria besøg. Denne aften er det en gammel dame med en kost, som pludselig vælter ind på hendes værelse. Victoria tror dog ikke på, at den gamle dame rent faktisk kan flyve som en rigtig heks, og damen bliver snart utrolig gnaven... Lydbogsserien \"Vampyren Victoria\" er kendetegnet ved et fantasifuldt lydunivers, der akkompagnerer fortællingen og tilføjer en særlig stemning og humor.

This lovable new series introduces a little dog with a GIANT personality! Fenway is an excitable and endlessly energetic Jack Russell terrier. He lives in the city with Food Lady, Fetch Man, and—of course—his beloved short human and best-friend-in-the-world, Hattie. But when his family...

You just can't keep a good girl down...unless you use the proper methods. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities.

An epic modern fantasy about an unforgettable friendship. There is a prophecy. It speaks of a girl who can fly and a boy who knows everything. The prophecy says that they have the power to bring about great change... The boy is Conrad Harrington III. The girl is Piper McCloud. They need their...

What happens when the girl who could fly can't fly anymore? Piper McCloud's ability to fly has disappeared, perhaps the result of some dark spell put on her, or perhaps because her ability has simply vanished forever. There is a worldwide calamity that Piper, Conrad, and their exceptional friends must tackle to save the planet, but Piper is left behind. If she can't fly, then what use is she?Piper learns she can't do a lot of things - cook, clean, and help Ma around the house, among them. She feels more helpless than ever. What is she good at?

Victoria, Henriette og Le har alle tre en hest selv. Men Rikkes forældre deler ikke ligefrem deres datters lidenskab for heste, og de synes absolut ikke, de har råd eller lyst til at købe en hest til Rikke. Firkløveret har planer om at arrangere et privat ridestævne hjemme på Victorias gård, og de fire piger beslutter, at de penge, de tjener på det, skal lægges i en pulje, så de kan spare op til en hest til Rikke. Men når det kommer til stykket er de fire piger alligevel ikke helt enige om den beslutning.

Victoria Rose er 11 år. Hun bor på skift hos sine foraeldre, som er skilt, og er vant til at pakke sit liv sammen hver fredag og bytte voksne, papsøskende, vaerelse og rutiner ud. Victorias elskede farfar er kommet på plejehjem pga. en blodprop, og det er hårdt for Victoria, som har brugt ham og hans kolonihavehus, Roselyst, som helle i sit pendlerliv. Nu skal huset saelges! Victorias bedste ven, Storm, er også skilsmissebarn og lever med alle de samme udfordringer som Victoria. Storms mor er skuespiller, og en aften er han og Victoria i teatret, hvor Storms mor er med i en Ronja Røverdatter-forstilling. Pludselig føler Victoria, at Ronja taler direkte til hende, og hun får en ide: Hun vil aendre det uudholdelige (pendlerlivet) og flytte ud i Roselyst sammen med Storm, og så må foraeldrene bo der på skift.