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Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Science Fiction
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.
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.
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Princess Ice Palace
Sam Hay; Illustrated by Lucy Fleming
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Walt Disney Animation Studios presents Frozen, a stunning big-screen comedy adventure. Fearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey--teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven--to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. Boys and girls ages 2-5 will enjoy this Little Golden Book retelling the whole exciting story.
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.
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.
An extra ordinary boy ends up at an extraordinary school for children with super powers in the first book in a new middle-grade series from Marcus Emerson, author of Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja.
Ben Braver is an ordinary kid. All he wants to do is finish his summer watching awesome TV shows and eating his favorite candy. But when some kid screams for help, Ben, like his favorite comic book heroes, tries to save the day. Let's just say it ends badly. But it does lead him to a secret school where kids with super abilities learn to control their powers. Ben's never had any powers--and never thought he could be special. So when he's offered a spot at the school, Ben realizes this is his chance to become the superhero he's always dreamed of.
Packed with black-and-white art and comic strips throughout, The Super Life of Ben Braver is the first book in a hilarious adventure series about the greatness that lies within any middle schooler who dreams big.
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.
Enter a nature playground world. Your visit will take you to a time
and place ages ago. There are things here long forgotten. Little
creatures pop to places in an instant. Pixies guard a deep mystery.
Lizards hide using a secret power.
Join Wiggleton on his first adventure. Is he a coward or a hero?
Even he doesn't know. But when his best friend's life is in danger,
he has to find out quick.
His quest takes him far away from his forest home. And ever
closer to a showdown with his greatest enemy. Can he find the
courage to use a special talent when he needs it most? And will it
be enough to save them?
Find out in "Talismon Tales #1, Wiggleton's Courageous
Adventure."
In the Valley of King Goodness, the most beautiful place on earth,
reign two kind royals, Elizabeth and Alexander. Having abundance
yet no child of their own, their life seems incomplete. But soon
the void is filled with not one but two children. Both children are
torn apart by witchcraft and the forces of good and evil. The King
must decide who will inherit the throne. Who will reign with
justice and kindness? A tragic sacrifice must take place. Look into
this enchanting story to find out if good will conquer evil as you
travel through the lives of these timeless characters.
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