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When retired captain James Clipper gets his nickname, Granddad Bracey, he hardly realizes that it will involve them in an epic adventure on a faraway planet called Seven Seas. There, together with his granddaughter Sally, they have to battle against all odds to save her mother’s life.

Imagine visiting another time in history and getting stuck there! The first book in the Stuck series, Stuck (In Time) blends adventure, history, and time travel. The three Baxter children - twins Robert and James and their sister, Lucy - use their individual strengths to work together and get themselves out of a string of scrapes.

Beyond the frozen mountains there lies an oasis from the frigid cold and the howling winds. A place the animals call Lake Zuron. What a wonderful place, happy creatures of all kinds, living in harmony and warmth thanks to their very own fire-breathing dragon named Daniel. But one day everything changed when the unthinkable happened. The dragon fire goes out and immediately the air begins to chill. Things were not looking good but just when all hope was lost, an unlikely hero steps up.

With his family murdered and his home burned and pillaged, 14-year-old Isaiah is plunged into the dangerous world of the American Revolution...on the side of the rebels. Now a part of a cause bigger than himself, Isaiah gradually discovers what it means to be a man.

Everyone knows squirrels love to eat acorns, especially the creatures who like to eat squirrels.... Grey Squirrel wakes up to an empty house with an empty tummy. There's only one thing to do. Go and find himself something to eat. An acorn or three would be perfect. All he needs to do is travel through the forest, over the river and across the clearing to the Old Oak Tree. What could possibly go wrong?

The Bully Who Got Bullied is a children's book of adventure with a message of kindness. Please enjoy.

What would you do? Sometimes conversations about how a child should react to an animal, or any danger, comes after the fact, or perhaps never at all. FFForF is an introduction to that conversation in a beautifully illustrated way. In the first edition, Coral comes across animals while on her trip to the mountains with her family. Does she freeze, flee, fight, or make a friend when she encounters them?

A sus nueve años, Noé nunca pensó que perdería su libertad, que se alejaría de su casa, de su familia y que tendría que permanecer encerrado en un sótano. Para no tener que enfrentar la realidad, Noé se refugia en una oscuridad de mentiras, pero poco a poco descubre que su imaginación es lo único que tiene para soportar su encierro y que sus historias logran que la mirada del hombre de los dos metros de estatura se vaya transformando. Ahora Noé sabe qué significa ser un hombre de una pieza y, junto a su nuevo amigo el Gorras, conoce cuál es el tamaño real del cielo.

Curly the dog is born in a barn, surrounded by his parents and siblings. But when a day of boredom prompts him to explore the nearby woods, he soon finds himself lost. Alone and scared, Curly attracts the attention of a sympathetic raccoon, who decides to help Curly find his way. What other friends will Curly make on his adventure? Can he find a forever home?

Ten-year-old Benny found the drunken cart driver who caused his father's death, but he's got bigger mysteries to solve. A long, sharp knife, a bag of disguises and a savage black stallion don't reassure Benny about his traveling companion to frontier Missouri. Still, Benny can’t shake the Scripture’s promise that God “will never leave thee nor forsake thee."

Fresh from their brief adventure to colonial times, Gabe, Elizabeth, and Marty receive their next summons from Thrylos, warning them that this will be a longer adventure and to pack appropriately. Not knowing what "longer" means, the kids do as they’re told and arrive on a deserted island in 1609, just in time to see a shipwreck on the reefs! It turns out that the ship is called the Sea Venture, and it was originally bound for the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The deserted island is called Bermuda, reputed at the time to be surrounded by monsters.

When the only option left means losing someone you love, you have no options. How could you, how could you save one person you care about, when doing so would harm another? What if they weren’t even letting you choose but choosing for you? You’d have to intervene without letting them know, right? To be an Altered Helix and put others in danger is the new reality for Austria. Luckily someone’s there to catch her when she falls, Josh, and fall she does, in love that is. While witnessing her family being put in danger, Austria’s haunted house family grows.

War is coming. The council of Jelling has begun. With one of the arm rings of Yngvar found, the children of Ribe and their guardian beast, Wifrith, set out to find the remaining seven rings. The warriors from Hedeby have not given up and are determined to find and kill the children of Ribe or face the wrath of their queen, Rena. But war is the furthest thing from the minds of Erland, Dalla, Christian, Eva, and Riki as in order to find the second arm ring of Yngvar, the children have to face a dragon.

Not just anybody gets to meet a goblin! But little Bob Taylor, just 10 years old and sick of pleasing others instead of himself, finds himself giddy for adventure and mischief, traveling around the world in a goblin hot air balloon with his goblin companion Fitz Mee. Together, they face daunting challenges, storms, lions, and magnetic disaster, racing to get to Goblinland or the mayor will have Fitz Mee's head!

This story is exciting, heart-gripping, and full of adventure. Faith-inspired lessons for everyday spiritual battles with many twists, turns, and challenges that children and adults face in life every day. What sets it apart is the relationship that develops between Gabriel and Almighty God. It teaches simplicity of prayer, faith, and family. Looking forward to the next adventure.

Arcadia was supposed to be Earth 2.0 - a haven for humanity while they fought desperately to save their dying homeworld. But nothing has turned out like Cassiopeia Foster had thought. Another race, the Alku, already occupies the planet in a parallel dimension called Paxon. They are willing to help Earth, but a powerful contingent plans to strip-mine the strangely powerful Starfire from the planet, which will collapse the Paxon side and kill all the Alku. A war has begun, and Cassi is caught in the middle.

Sherman Comet no és gaire llest. El que més li agrada a la vida és seure davant el televisor amb una cervesa a la mà. O mirar els escots de les dones. És un dropo, un estudiant pèssim que malviu en un pis tronat al Harlem de Nova York. Per desgràcia, ell és l'únic que pot evitar que d'aquí sis dies un forat negre s'empassi la Terra. Ara sha de veure si serà capaç de fer-ho. O si tan sols voldrà posar-s'hi. Li caldrà una bona dosi de persuasió per part de Vivian Bentley, la noia dels seus somnis i la persona que més l'odia en aquest planeta.

¿Qué puedes hacer cuando tus padres te han dejado solo en casa, te mueres de hambre y no hay nada en la nevera? Pues lo mismo que el protagonista de este libro: llamar a tus mejores amigos y, con la ayuda de los rotus y de los lápices de colores, imaginar el mejor banquete de todos los tiempos, al que todos los alimentos y tú estáis invitados.

Una clásica historia de la búsqueda de uno mismo y la fundación para dos películas de Disney, la más reciente protagonizada por Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley y Benedict Cumberbatch, El libro de la selva sigue al pequeño Mowgli, un cachorro humano que deberá enfrentar la ardua vida de la jungla India. Embárcate en esta aventura que te enseñará sobre la Ley de la Selva y te presentará a osos, serpientes, lobos, orangutanes y elefantes, cada uno con una maravillosa y distinguida personalidad.

La clásica historia de senderos de migajas de pan, una casa de golosinas y una bruja malvada y ciega, Hansel Y Gretel es uno de los cuentos más famosos publicados por los hermanos Grimm. Entra en el mundo fantástico del folklor alemán, el cual inspiró la película del mismo nombre, protagonizada por Jeremy Renner y Gemma Edgerton. En esta versión original, no todo es cantos y rizas en el bosque, y lo macabro y tenebroso ya no está escondido.