Dead people don't make great companions, something cute, athletic Ken finds out the hard way when, following an accident on the football field, he starts hearing ghostly voices. It's not the kind of gift he would have asked for — especially when...
Ronald Leslie, the son of a French heiress and a Scottish officer in the service of the French, is rescued as a baby from the hands of his parents' enemies and taken to safety in Scotland. While still a youth he determines to search in France for...
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing...
To save humanity, they must give up their own.
Adam’s muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam’s only escape from his wheelchair. In his...
Someone is sending spiteful letters. Gladys and Mrs Moon are terribly upset. There are lots of suspects it could be gossipy Miss Tittle or Old Nosey, a very curious man. The Five Find-Outers and Dog will find the...
“I wish most heartily that something would happen,” Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty's gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid...
The techno-teens of the Net Force Explorers are just as smart as their adult counterparts when it comes to 21st century crimes and misdemeanors. Now, the Explorers must delve into cyberspace-and the secrets of the past-to prove their commander...
Do you have the courage, the wits, and the skill to claim a dragon's hoard? If so, apply within ...The sign is small, tucked into the corner of Mr. Clutter's bookshop window: "Adventurers Wanted. Apply Within." No one but fifteen-year-old...
Say you’ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and...
In this fourth book in the series, Theodosia sets off to Egypt to return the Emerald Tablet, along with its knowledge of some of the ancient world's most guarded secrets. Accompanied by her cat, Isis, (smuggled along in a picnic hamper), Theo plans...