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Twelve-year-old Angela and thirteen-year-old Tony are neighbors and best of friends who have a penchant for getting into trouble. While playing in Angela's creepy basement one day, they discover a secret portal that leads them to a magical world beyond their wildest imaginings. In this new and exciting realm, they train to become wizards, meeting an eclectic cast of characters along the way. But even in this place, Angela and Tony become embroiled in mischief. After all, what kid wouldn't want the power to transform into a beastly dragon or the ability to command any inanimate object to fly across the room? As the two become enveloped in the realm of mysterious creatures and beings, they must face a cruel and evil wizard who plans to overtake the magical world. Can Angela and Tony defeat him before the wizard destroys everything they've come to love?
Renee thought that her biggest problem was dealing with her divorced parents and graduating from High school. That was until she discovers her friends are more than they seem. It has Renee looking at everything differently. From awakening dreams to her feelings for Gage, everything is changing so fast. Secrets are being revealed, and danger grows closer with each day. Graduation is the last thing on her mind. The Unseelie Queen, who had killed her for the past few centuries repetitively, is after her again. This time armed with memories, friends, and the Seelie Fae court, would she be able to escape death?
Timmy and his friends are nice kids, but a bit outside the cool zone. They get picked on a bit. But only in a mild intimidation way. One fine weekend they realise that they each have a power. Being a bit rubbish, they don't go out and test their powers to the max, instead deciding to wait and see what happens, and where the powers may become useful. One of the group, Hugh, has a sister who discovers the boys secret and becomes part of the group, despite having no special powers of her own. After a minor skirmish with the school bully's, the friends are drawn into a fight between good and evil, but who knows what is good and what is evil. The boys wrestle with their twisting feelings about this eternal question, and where it will all end. We just don't know. And then we do!
Hope Havergale first meets the mysterious teenager Christian Livingston on her seventh birthday when he saves her from plummeting into a cradle of water inside a forbidden forest. As he licks fresh blood droplets from her injured wrist, Hope is spellbound. Seemingly powerless to his charms, Hope has no idea that it will be her destiny to embark on a breathtaking, perilous adventure with this two-hundred year-old vampire. As Hope grows up and inherits an old house in the Florida Keys from her estranged grandmother, she secretly pines for Christian-the man who haunts her dreams. While yearning for his good looks and succulent tin-cinnamon scent, Hope is clueless that it is Christian who fell in love with her when she was just seven. Worse yet, Hope doesn't realize the truth about her own veiled past-that even she isn't fully human. When Christian reappears one day, she falls hard, rousing the monster within her. Somewhere between skin and ink and blood and love, a sinful self-discovery awaits Hope as she becomes entangled in a conflict between civilized and savage vampires. In this seductive tale, bloodlust quickly turns to bloodshed when the arrival of a new danger threatens to destroy both their secret love and surreptitious existence.
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time including C. S. Lewis, who wrote "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton said that The Princess and the Goblin was a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." His three fantasy novels for children are available here in one volume. They are so strange and dreamlike that adults often enjoy them as much as the children. MacDonald says "For my part, I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." So whether you are young or just young at heart this is a book that will enthral you with its displays of courage and loyalty, and with the allegories between the fantastic world painted and the spiritual world MacDonald perceives.
Attempting to avoid the violence and drugs at Hibernia High, sixteen-year-old Tristen McCoy and his friends have transferred on a sports scholarship to the elite Curtis Hall boarding school. Hometown lacrosse heroes, the boys are tested as they attempt to assimilate into a student body where excelling is the norm. Tristen hones his leadership skills and sense of humor while finding his way in this new environment. He and his friends must rise to the challenge of competing with peers whose skills equal and perhaps surpass their own. Tristen's attention is soon captured by the beautiful and alluring Marcella Venier. Despite their different origins and upbringings, the two are drawn to each other. Marcella, compelled to live a clandestine life with dark secrets and a covert research mission, struggles with her desire to further her own designs and still remain in Tristen's world. Events spiral out of control, and a student is lost in the subterranean tunnels beneath the school's campus. Tristen and his friends stand accused of foul play, and in an effort to make things right, he enlists Marcella's help in organizing a search party. During the perilous rescue attempt, danger threatens to not only sever the bonds of friendship of the group, but take their lives as well. They hope they can survive until graduation.
Making wishes on snow, dandelions, and shooting stars is perfectly normal for Polly's family. But when Polly decides to try a different kind of wish, everything changes. Now she is spending her entire family vacation thinking she has lost her mind.Maybe Polly should have stuck with throwing a penny into a wishing well. While visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, she uses a nickel instead, silently wishing she knew interesting facts about President Jefferson to share with everyone on the trip. What happens next is something beyond Polly's imagination. In a matter of hours, Polly suddenly realizes that no one else in her group can hear the strange voices relaying fascinating historical facts. Unfortunately, her family thinks she is crazy. Could her wish really have come true? Or are the mysterious voices part of a clever practical joke?The Jefferson Wish is an entertaining tale that integrates little-known facts about one of our nation's founding fathers with the adventures of a girl about to find out what happens when a wish becomes reality.
Kathryn Samantha King, AKA as Katie King; enabled with powers from out of this world with which she firmly establishes her place in history, finance, and the future.
Everyone knows that Hank Whitestone is a genius, but nobody knows the real story of what he invented and what happened as a result. But, for readers in years to come, when the story finally comes out, here is the true story of how Hank came up with his theory of gravity, and invented the Grav Buster, and how everyone built the spaceship Pegasus, and how the whole family traveled into space, and what happened up there. Of course, it wasn't that easy and a couple of times it was down-right scary--when we had to steal the nukes, for example--and the whole thing had to be done in secret, in case JJ figured out what we were doing and took Pegasus away from us. Anyway, if you have authorized access to "Hank's Idea" you can read this stuff now, provided, of course, that you don't breathe a word to anyone. Just to be on the safe side, please eat this book when you've finished it, in case it falls into the wrong hands.
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