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Merlin Mission Books 1-8 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack and...

Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is...

Books 1-8 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series plus an interview with Mary Pope Osborne! Meet Jack and Annie! Jack and his younger sister, Annie, are just regular kids. But when they discover a tree house in the woods, something magical happens. In books 1-4, Jack and Annie...

Merlin Mission Books 17-24 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack...

Merlin Mission Books 9-16 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack...

Brought to you by Puffin. *The number-one bestselling final novel in the award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series* Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is...

The blockbuster series continues with a Cahill family member from the past bent on revenge! Who is the Outcast, and why is he threatening the lives of innocent people? Book 3 reveals a shocking secret that will send Amy and Dan - and the world - reeling.

Books 17–24 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series! These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most...

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life. Years later, in contemporary South Sudan, a girl named Nya must walk eight hours a day to fetch water. The walk is grueling, but there is unexpected hope.

Never turn your back on the Cahills.... The most powerful family history has ever known returns with a vengeance in The 39 Clues: Doublecross! Confidential until August 2015!

D'Artagnan findet eine Karikatur von Rochefort und klebt sie ihm auf dem Markt an den Rücken. Rochefort hält den laut lachenden Alex für den Schuldigen und lässt ihn in den Kerker werfen. Die Beleidigung eines Hauptmanns des Königs gilt als Majestätsbeleidigung und wird schwer bestraft. Die drei Musketiere müssen schnell herausfinden, wer die Karikatur Rocheforts gezeichnet hat, um Alex' Unschuld zu beweisen und ihn vor der Verurteilung zu bewahren.

Die Geister des Louvre Ein Geist streift nachts durch den Louvre und versetzt die Wächter vor dem Zimmer des Königs in Angst. Die drei Musketiere und D'Artagnan gehen mit Unterstützung ihres Freundes Alex und seines Geisterpendels im Louvre auf Geistersuche. Richelieu wird entführt. Die Erpresser fordern hohes Lösegeld, das der König allein und ohne Bewachung überbringen soll. Der König ist alleine und langweilt sich im Louvre.

Brought to you by Puffin. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.) Then Hazel discovers...

Brought to you by Puffin. The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, from the million-copy-bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike: Robin Stevens. April 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike...

A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act... It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don’t know who you can trust or who might be a secret spy… Maths whizz...

Milady verbündet sich mit dem König eines winzigen Königreichs, um endlich einen Adelstitel zu erhalten. Durch den Diebstahl einer geheimen Militärkarte will dieser König Frankreich einnehmen. D'Artagnan soll einen Dieb fangen, der in Paris sein Unwesen treibt. Richelieu ist genervt von König Louis XIII. Er will einen Ersatz finden, der ihm zu Diensten ist.

Året er 1731, og Frejas far, er en stenrig skibsreder, som sælger sin forretning. Han flytter til den danske slaveø Sankt Jan i Caribien, hvor han vil tilbringe sin sidste tid. På Sankt Jan frelser en ældre slave Frejas liv. Som tak køber Freja slavens søn, Toka, for at sætte ham fri...

Året er 1363, og Danmarks konge, Valdemar Atterdag gider ikke regere sit kongerige. Han er knuget af sorg over sin døde elskerinde, den smukke Tovelil, som han ikke vil lade begrave. I stedet har hende med sig overalt i en blykiste. Den 10-årige prinsesse Margrethe overtaler Freja og Toke til...

Betrayed by their cousins, abandoned by their uncle, and with only the slimmest hint to guide them, fourteen-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, rush off to Egypt on the hunt for 39 Clues that lead to a source of unimaginable power. But when they arrive, Amy and Dan get something completely unexpected—a message from their dead grandmother, Grace. Did Grace set out to help the two orphans . . . ore are Amy and Dan heading for the most devastating betrayal of them all?

Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, have had enough. Not only do they have to find the 39 Clues first, they're expected to reunite their backstabbing family - the same people who killed their parents. But Amy and Dan haven't survived explosions and assassination attempts for nothing. They have a plan to finish the Clue hutn on their own terms. Too bad there's a final, fatal secret the Madrigals haven't told them. A secret that could cost Amy and Dan - and the world - everything . . .