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Riordan, Rick

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half...

Riordan, Rick

In this second installment in the series Percy, Poseidon's 13-year-old demigod son, is desperate to rescue his friend and retrieve the healing Golden Fleece--the only protection for the children in Camp Half-Blood. Adventure follows chaotic adventure as Percy once again battles mythical monsters in modern-day settings. ...

Jon Berkeley

You are the lucky winner of a Blue Moon Once-in-a-Lifetime Adventure. It'll be the trip of a lifetime The tour leaves from the Blue Moon office at 11 p.m. sharp. Groups of seven only. No pets.When the Flints win the trip to Bell Hoot, they board Captain Bontoc's Blue Moon Mobile with the expectation of a grand holiday. Then something terrible happens: Bea Flint's little brother...

El inicio de la mayor serie de fantasía de nuestra generación. Sembia es una tierra de riqueza y poder, donde familias rivales compran y venden todo lo imaginable, incluso la vida. En este despiadado reino, la familia Uskevren debe mantener la más escasa mercancía de todas: el honor. Pero incluso ellos tienen secretos, al menos tantos como enemigos. Esta antología formada por s...

Kristin Cashore

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight — she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme, and in her case horrifying, skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with co...

H.g. Wells

De forma no lineal y con mucho suspenso, Wells cuenta la vida de Griffin, un hombre albino que consigue la invisibilidad a partir de un meticuloso estudio de las propiedades de refracción y reflexión de la luz sobre los objetos. Este es un relato apasionante de ciencia ficción, basado en la vida de un hombre sumido en la miseria y la rabia a las que la ambición, muchas veces, a...

Edgar Allan Poe

Misterio y terror son palabras que definen este libro; tenebrosas historias que congelan la sangre del más tenaz lector. Esta obra está dotada de una gran intensidad tanto en su juego con las pasiones sobrenaturales como en el escudriñamiento de las naturalezas oscuras de la mente.Leer estas historias significa una experiencia que se acerca a la poética del horror, el ensueño y...

Curdy, un chico de doce años, deberá robar la llave de Oro, capaz de abrir todas las puertas, si quiere saber el paradero de su padre. ...

Tyler y Lucinda se ven obligados a pasar las vacaciones de verano con su tío lejano Gideon, un granjero. Creen que se van a pasar seis semanas rodeados de vacas, ovejas, caballos y cerdos, pero cuando llegan al desierto Valle Estándar, en California, descubren que Granja Corriente no es, para nada, una granja cualquiera. Los lamentos procedentes de los establos no son de una va...

C. Alexander London

As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother. ...

Marie-Claire Pasquier / Barroux

Les Indiens du Guatemala qualifient de "huaca" tout ce qui n'est pas du cours ordinaire de la nature.Si une femme accouche de jumeaux, ils prennent cela pour une merveille et appellent Huaca la mère et ses deux enfants. Ce récit pourrait commencer comme la plus banale des histoires : "II était une fois Bruno et Yanka, un couple qui ne pouvait pas avoir d'enfant". Lors du grand ...

Yaël Hassan

Antoine : Je reste perplexe sur le palier.Qui ça peut être ? Et comment ça se fait qu'on ne l'ait jamais vu ? Bizarre ! Blandine : De toute manière, quelqu'un finira bien par comprendre ce qui se passe ici. On ne peut pas séquestrer une personne, comme ça, indéfiniment. David : il ne s'agit pas d'accuser mais de vérifier, c'est tout. Il faut surtout mener l'enquête et ne pas lâ...

Rowling, J. K.

Tras otro abominable verano con los Dursley, Harry se dispone a iniciar el cuarto curso en Hogwarts, la famosa escuela de magia y hechicería. A sus catorce años, a Harry le gustaría ser un joven mago como los demás y dedicarse a aprender nuevos sortilegios, encontrarse con sus amigos Ron y Hermione y asistir con ellos a los Mundiales de quidditch. Sin embargo, al llegar al cole...

Han, Jenny

Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark... ...

Roderick Gordon

14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchan...

E. Archer

What happens when a science geek and magic collide?Be careful what you wish for. Really. Because wishes are bad. Very bad. They can get you trapped in fantasy worlds full of killer bunny rabbits, evil aunts, and bothersome bacteria, for example. Or at least that's Ralph's experience. He's been asked to spend the summer with his strange British relatives at their old manor house...

Lisa Yee

Lisa Yee returns to her core strength in older middle-grade fiction and the characters that made her famous in this "Diary of a Wimpy Trekkie."Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has to look forward to is the upcoming Star Trek convention. But when he inadvertently draws the attention of Digger...

Rowling, J. K.

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger. ...

Rowling, J. K.

Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling's spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will make it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped loyal readers for the end of her series by doling out increasingly dark and dangerous tales o...

Canavan,Trudi

Smith, Keri

Dear Reader,One dark and stormy night, author Keri Smith found some strange scattered pages abandoned in a park. She collected and assembled them, trying to solve the mystery of this unexpected discovery, and now, she's passing the task on to you, her readers.I collected and assembled them, trying to solve the mystery of this unexpected discovery, and am now passing the task on...

Cate Tiernan

The fourth Sweep collection! Morgan Rowlands had thought her foes were defeated, but demons from the past still haunt her and her beloved, Hunter. Their magick is strong, but the darkness that torments them threatens to overwhelm even their love. Yet there is another, whose magick could save, or could destroy. And caught in the middle of the darkness and light, Morgan realizes ...

Cate Tiernan

Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power. . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something else - a dark force threatening her entire world. As the darkness closes in, Morgan realizes that she must mak...

Cate Tiernan

The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price. For Morgan and Cal share a terrible, dark secret; one that binds them tog...

Amy Ignatow

Lydia and Julie are best friends with one goal: to crack the code of popularity. Lydia's the bold one: aspiring theater star, stick-fighting enthusiast, and human guinea pig. Julie's the shy one: observer and artist, accidental field hockey jock, and faithful recorder. In this notebook they write down their observations and carry out experiments to try to determine what makes t...

Gary Soto

What do Gaby Lopez, Michael Robles, and Cynthia Rodriguez have in common? These three kids join other teens and tweens in Gary Soto's new short story collection, in which the hard-knock facts of growing up are captured with humor and poignance. Filled with annoying siblings, difficult parents, and first loves, these stories are a masterful reminder of why adolescence is one of ...

Janet Lee Carey

A dreamwalker who has lost her way. A shape shifter who fears his own dark power. A fire herd punished for his magic. Can these three teens keep the human world of Noor and the magical world of Oth from splitting apart?The ancient trees of Noor are dying. If the blight kills the last azure trees whose deep roots bind the worlds, the bridge between Noor and Oth will split apart ...

Jack Mitchell

A high-action story dpicting the terrific battle between the Gaus and Julius Caesar's Roman legions, this story will appeal to lovers of ancient history and fast-paced fiction. ...

Philip Pullman

In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compass, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld—Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.On ...

Philip Pullman

Lyra and Will, the two ordinary children whose extraordinary adventures began in The Golden Compass and continued in The Subtle Knife, are in unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a maagnificent amber spygl...