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 If a strange person asks to be your online friend, do you know what to do? Don’t worry if you don’t. This book is here to help! Learn tech-savvy ways to keep your social networking sites safe without taking away all the fun! 

If a classmate sends threatening emails to you, do you know what to do? Don’t worry if you don’t. This book is here to help! Learn tech-savvy ways to keep bullies out of your technology - without taking away all the fun!

E Nesbit is widely regarded as the first modern children's writer. Her ground-breaking novels have influenced authors from Oscar Wilde to Jacqueline Wilson, and over 100 years after their first publication, they remain perennially popular. This wide-ranging collection comprises some of her very best children's fiction, commencing with her timeless tale The Railway Children.

Fablehouse is a children’s home like no other. Housed in a crumbling mansion that perches on a cliff and backs on to ancient mysterious woodland, this is the home for many of Britain’s Brown Babies, children born to African-American GIs and white British women following the Second World War. Heather has already been through several children’s homes and is wary of Fablehouse and its unusual head teacher, Miss Isolde. But when children start acting strangely, Heather discovers a plot from a fae realm to infiltrate and overthrow the human world.

Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get adopted by a forever family before it's too late. But then on Visiting Professionals' Day, his school invites Dr. Alphonse Hatch, president of Hatch-ED—one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence companies in the state—to give a presentation.

It starts with a chase. When Spencer Plain is pulled out of school in the middle of the day, he never expects to be speeding down the highway with his uncle, trying to outpace the car that's tailing them. And he certainly never thought he'd find himself fleeing from a bear through the woods. And when he hears the bear say, "We've been expecting you," Spencer knows he's just uncovered a whole world he'd never imagined. He's brought to Bearhaven, a secret oasis his parents created for bears.

Fablehouse is a children’s home like no other. Heather and her friends who live here have magic at their fingertips. The children have a powerful friend in Pal, an Arthurian knight who teaches them to harness the powers they find within themselves. But not everyone the children meet is on their side. Fablehouse is threatened by an inspector who is searching for a reason to close down this safe haven for mixed-race children. The kids and their devoted carer Miss Isolde vow to save their home, but Pal is distracted.

Ella è una bambina speciale. Nessuno lo sa perché è un segreto, neppure i suoi migliori amici Tom e Lenka, ma da grande diventerà una vera fata, proprio come la sua mamma! Certo, magari non proprio uguale a lei... Fata Mammetta infatti è un po' pasticciona e spesso nei suoi incantesimi qualcosa va storto. Per fortuna può contare su Ella, l'Aiutante Fata migliore che si possa immaginare, capace di risolvere i guai più incredibili con la giusta formula magica, un sorriso e tanta fantasia.

Enquanto a linda princesa atravessa a floresta, ela desvela a preciosidade da amizade, compreendendo que os laços afetuosos são tesouros que iluminam o caminho, guiando-a através dos desafios e enriquecendo sua jornada com significado e alegria genuínos.

Un principe ed il suo scudiero stringono una profonda e sincera amicizia destinata a durare per sempre. I due giovani, nell'intento di girare il reame, si imbattono in magiche creature, streghe, fantasmi, pericolosi incantesimi... Riusciranno i due inseparabili amici a salvare la figlia del Re del Portogallo dal malvagio mago, e sfuggire alla vendetta? Immergiti anche tu nel magico mondo di "Belpomo e Bellascorza" e aiuta il principe ed il suo scudiero a far ritorno al proprio reame sani e salvi.

Nata in Via delle Cento Stelle a Firenze il 12 giugno 1922, Margherita hack non poteva che diventare un'astrofisica di fama mondiale. Eppure lei non ha mai creduto al destino: credeva invece nel merito, nella possibilità di realizzare i propri sogni. Lei che di sogni ne aveva tantissimi: dall'atletica, in cui sperava di conquistare una medaglia alle Olimpiadi, alla bici, con la quale fu amore a prima vista, fino alle stelle, scoperte a scuola un po' per caso e che le hanno illuminato il cammino fino ad arrivare alla guida dell'osservatorio astronomico di Trieste.