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One winter evening, Lydia Marmalade arrives at Lady Partridge's mansion. She has nothing except her sausage dog, Colin, but she's not going to let that stop her making this her new home. But Lady Partridge isn't at all keen to make Lydia part of the family. If Lydia doesn't behave herself until the end of the winter season, she'll cast her off entirely. And now her mother's gone, Lydia doesn't have anywhere else to live.

A girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. There, given the name "Evie," she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drill sergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies.

Luna, Konstantin and Aidan travel to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922 where an Egyptologist called Harold Carter is about to discover Tutankhamun's mummy. The time thieves have twenty-four hours to find out where Carter plans to dig and get to Tutankhamun first. But they find themselves grappling with the uncertainty of a world poised between two world wars and all the while a curse that they created seems to be taking on a life of its own.

Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring. But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual secret...they use time travel to plunder the future for wonders. Together with her friends, Konstantin and Aidan, and a clockwork cuckoo, Luna boards the Time Train. Luna and her friends travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York...the RMS Titanic.

In Search of Hua Ma is one of a series of novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. The breakthrough level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese.

In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarök that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters - wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds - all bent on destroying the world. But the gods died a long time ago. Matt Thorsen knows every Norse myth, saga, and god as if it was family history - because it is family history. Most people in the modern-day town of Blackwell, in fact, are direct descendants of either Thor or Loki, including Matt's classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke.

Brystal Evergreen liebt Bücher - doch in ihrer Heimat dürfen Mädchen und Frauen nicht lesen. Als sie trotzdem an ein geheimnisvolles Buch gerät, ändert sich ihr Leben: Brystal erfährt, dass sie magische Fähigkeiten besitzt. Sie wird an der Akademie der charismatischen Madame Weatherberry aufgenommen, wo sie in guter Magie ausgebildet wird. Aber auch diese Gemeinschaft kennt Unterdrückung: Eine Hexe unterwirft die Menschen mit böser Zauberkraft. Und nur eine hat die mächtige Gabe, sie aufzuhalten: Brystal Evergreen!

A triumphant victory over the witches has proven that Princess Cadet Evie really does belong at Pennyroyal Academy. News of her heroism has traveled far and wide - inspiring a kingdom of grateful citizens and, when the new term starts, a wave of fresh Academy recruits. While it's good to be returning to the academy as a second-class cadet, things are not as they should be. Evie witnesses the vicious attack of an innocent woman - by a trio of princesses.

It's almost Fish-mas in Kittentail Cove and the purrmaids can't wait for Santa Paws to arrive! When Coral's younger brother, Shrimp asks her to mail his letter to Santa Paws, Coral is happy to help! But then the day gets busy and the post office closes early and...will Santa Paws still bring presents if he doesn't get Shrimp's letter? With some help from her friends, Coral will do whatever it takes to give Shrimp the Merriest Fish-mas ever!

A tale of the man who slayed before the sleigh.

Me'ma and the Great Mountain is about a little girl named Me'ma who lives in an oppressed village called Sunken Creek. Faced with removal, Me'ma brings to focus her extraordinary ability to see ghoulish characters who try to help her in overcoming the nightmare she and her people are facing from an evil tyrant.

"Kyllähän sinä sen tiedät. Ei töihin voi lapset tulla. Päivähoitoon meno on sinun työtäsi." Rellu piti sitä aivan tavallisena pyyntönä, mutta äiti ei suostunut. Eihän äiti edes huomaisi, jos hän tulisi mukaan töihin. Entä jos Rellu muuttuisi aivan pieneksi, niin pieneksi ettei äiti tosiaan huomaisi häntä? "Mä tuun mukaan" on Raili Mikkasen lastenkirja, jossa yhden päivän ajan asiat näyttävät erilaiselta kuin yleensä. Rellun jännittävä seikkailu on opettavainen sekä lapsille että aikuisille.

Leises Schnarchen ist zu hören. Komisch. Die ganzen Erwachsenen auf dem Hoffest von Momos und Fifis Nachbar*innen sind eingeschlafen – manche sogar im Sitzen oder Stehen. Und dann kommen auch noch seltsame Geräusche aus dem Geheim-Nichtgeheim-Zelt! Ein Fiepen, Quieken und Ächzen. Noch wissen sie es nicht, aber bald schon werden die beiden Kinder mittendrin sein in einem turbulenten Abenteuer: Die Spurensuche beginnt ... und die mündet schließlich in eine waschechte Rettungsmission! Die Nährstoffgeschichte auch als „Ohr“benteuer erleben.

Uno de los cuentos clásicos más populares de todos los tiempos para descubrir con los más pequeños y disfrutar en familia.

Uno de los cuentos clásicos más populares de todos los tiempos para descubrir con los más pequeños y disfrutar en familia.

Trigger, the Chihuahua private detective, needs a little R&R. But, no sooner does his retreat begin before he’s pulled into a new case - one with an eerie connection to his last one. This time, though, things take a disturbing turn - the would-be client is murdered! Now, Trigger is hot on the trail of the most dangerous foe he’s ever faced. If he doesn’t unravel the mystery quickly, he may find himself the next target of the brazen killer. Can he solve the case before the murderer strikes again?

Durante siglos se ha demostrado que los cuentos a la hora de dormir son una herramienta efectiva para ayudar a los niños a conciliar el sueño más rápido y tener un sueño de mejor calidad.

Bullies rule in Princess Molly’s town. And Princess Molly is afraid of the bullies. How can scarecrow and road-builder Lucas conquer the bullies in the town? Can they change the town to a kind and caring town? A town where scarecrows are loved and bullies never enter?

Un vecchio lampione è giunto alla fine della sua vita lavorativa. Ha avuto una lunga vita e molte persone lo conoscono. Perciò tutti gli amici vengono a fargli visita nella sua ultima notte in servizio. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) è stato uno scrittore, poeta e artista danese. È celebre la sua letteratura per bambini; tra le sue fiabe più amate si citano "I vestiti nuovi dell’imperatore", "La sirenetta", "L'usignuolo", "Il soldatino di stagno", "La regina delle nevi", "Il brutto anitroccolo" e "La piccola fiammiferaia".

A scarecrow discovers he can be anything he wants to be. What will he be to find his way home? A child will learn to use his or her imagination and conquer fears.