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Archfiends Basilisk and the Worm have dreamt up a plan so cunning it will strike fear into the heart of the bravest superhero. Combining their dastardly skills, they will infect HERO.COM with a virus potent enough to cripple it and ultimately to destroy Hero HQ. Toby, Lorna, Pete and Emily are...

Venus's mother, Gail, has discovered that Venus has been leading a secret life as a stunt girl and is very angry about it. Gail makes Venus promise that she will concentrate on her school work and forget the stunt world. But Venus can't forget it: she lives in fear of her fellow stunt artist and...

Ivette. Joanna. And now: Katrina. Whatever her name is, it won’t last long. Katrina doesn’t know any of the details about her past, but she does know that she and her parents are part of the Witness Protection Program. Whenever her parents say they have to move on and start over, she takes on a new identity. A new name, new hair color, new story. Until their location leaks and her parents disappear. Katrina embarks on a dangerous rescue mission to save them - and find out the truth of her past at last.

Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip when he's awoken by screams. The dam has failed. The river is surging, and their camp will be under water in a matter of moments. As the shrieking roar of the river rushes closer, the kids scramble to higher ground. They make it; their counselors do not. Now they're on their own, with barely any food or supplies, in the middle of the Montana wilderness. Do Daniel and his four classmates have what it takes to stay alive until they can get rescued?

Aaron Peterson feels like he's trapped in a recurring nightmare. After moving halfway across the world to flee his father's latest theme park failure, yet another disaster has occurred: A roller coaster car jumps the tracks at the Golden Apple Amusement Park, resulting in the death of his friend, Lucy Yi.

The third instalment in this suspenseful and spooky series from New York Times best-selling duo Brendan Reichs and Ally Condie. After the events of Dark Halloween, the town of Timbers is in a full-blown monster panic, making life for the Torchbearers - Opal, Nico, Tyler, Emma and Logan - extremely difficult. Nico is investigating the Rift and the strange natural phenomena that continue to occur, all while worrying about his dad's potential work transfer.

"An engaging, plot-driven thriller . . ." -- Kirkus Reviews, on This Town Is Not All Right "For junior conspiracy theorists everywhere." -- Booklist, on This Town Is Not All Right In the sequel to This Town Is Not All Right, Beacon, Everleigh, and Arthur think they've left the horror of...

Meet Winnie, age 11. Winnie knows that "change" isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when it means her best friend, Amanda, might be dropping her for someone else. Throw in a grumpy teenage sister, a cat who gets trapped in the wall, and a crush who has pinkeye, and Winnie decides that the rest of the world can do what it wants, but she's going to remain exactly the same. But every month brings hilarious adventures and crazy ups and downs. A lot can change in a year, maybe even Winnie.

In another "suspenseful mystery romp with art appreciation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Art and Camille head to London to find her estranged father, and soon find themselves embroiled in a heist involving a long-dead monarch. Packed with fascinating facts about real places and pieces of...

The second thrilling, mysterious and very, very funny CECILY SAWYER mystery, from the award-winning author of EINSTEIN THE PENGUIN.​ Cecily Sawyer is surrounded by spies. They’re everywhere – on the streets, in her home, at her school – and after intercepting a highly suspicious message...

Critically acclaimed author Keith Gray masterfully grapples with the difficult dynamics of a tumultuous family environment in this compelling and bittersweet tale. When Ben sees a monstrous gargoyle creeping across the midnight rooftops, he’s desperate to tell someone. But Ben feels alone in...

Trapped in a dark forest with his cold-hearted parents, Bonebag leads a cruel and isolated existence. However, he feels deep in his bones that things weren’t always this way: he has known happiness before. Why does it feel like it was in a past life? When Bonebag discovers a locket that burns him to the touch, and a ghostly girl beckons him into the deep woods, he must grapple with the riddle of where he came from and how he came to be. Only then can he begin to rewrite his fate.

בוקר אחד מתעוררים ילדי העיר ומגלים שכל המבוגרים נעלמו. אין הורים, אין מורים, אין מי שיגיד מה לעשות… אז מה באמת עושים? בין ערימות אשפה והררי זבל שמתפוגגים באורח פלא...

בחופש הגדול משתתף עמי בן ה-13 בטיול משפחתי בצפון. במהלך הטיול הוא נפצע ומובהל לבית חולים, שם מתגלה לו באופן מפתיע הקשר המיוחד בין ד'ר לבני, הרופא שמנתח אותו, ובין...

Ausnahmezustand an der Skutebucht: Ein Filmteam hält den norwegischen Küstenort in Atem. Auch Mitglieder zweier berüchtigter Motorradclubs buchen sich im Hotel „Perle" ein. Aber nicht alle Gäste sind, was sie vorgeben zu sein. Als ein Stiefel – mit menschlichen Knochen! – an die Meeresoberfläche geschwemmt wird, machen sich die Freunde von CLUE – Cecilia, Leo, Une und Hund Egon – an die Arbeit. Was geschieht hinter den Kulissen des Filmdrehs und gibt es eine Verbindung zu dem, was in den Tiefen des Ozeans verborgen ist?

Après avoir vu un film sur les Illuminati, Michaël devient obsédé par cette organisation secrète qui contrôlerait le monde entier. À force de se documenter, l’adolescent apprend à reconnaître leurs symboles distinctifs. Il commence même à remarquer la présence de ceux-ci partout autour de lui. Les Illuminati seraient-ils actifs dans sa petite ville de banlieue ? Pour en avoir le cœur net, Michaël et ses amis tentent d’entrer en contact avec eux en produisant une vidéo qu’ils diffusent en ligne.

Bloomsbury presents Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar, read by Kathleen McInerney A funny, sinister and thought-provoking comic thriller from the multimillion-copy selling author of Holes. If you go down to the woods today ... Well, every child knows NOT to, don’t they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to...

London, Summer 1951: Clem Fatale, the youngest crook in the city, and her best friend Gilbert are going to see their favourite musical double act, the Wade Sisters, perform at the London Palladium! But then one half of the duo - Betty Wade -disappears. Her sister Judy hires Clem and Gilbert to...

The Edge is a land of two worlds: above and below. It took me my childhood to learn about above; when I was 19, I went to learn the wonders of below: a world of darkness and silence, so dark that you can see the lights of brain cells discharging; so silent that blood in the veins can be heard.

Nicky Roth should be happy - he's finally proven that his best friend, Aaron, and Aaron's younger sister, Mya, are missing. Better yet, the police are actually doing something: they've plastered the town with missing posters, and have organized weekend search parties for the kids. But Nicky can't seem to pry his eyes from the house across the street, especially after he sees a frantic SOS coming from Aaron's room in the Peterson house.