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Mary Pope Osborne retells thrilling stories from Homer's Odyssey, one of the greatest epics of all time.

When a dragon is discovered up on the Downs, the Boy is not in the least surprised. He's always known the cave there was a dragon cave, so it seems only right for a dragon to be living in it. The Boy decides to pay a visit to the cave, and he thinks he knows just what to expect. But this particular dragon is not a bit like the ones in fairy tales!

Return with Portia and her younger brother, Foster, as they rediscover an abandoned summer resort, consisting of deserted crumbling Victorian summer homes surrounding a vanished lake, which is now a swamp.

Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during World War I, and captures his memories as he looks back over his life. Full of stunningly researched detail and engrossing atmosphere, the book leads to a dramatic and moving conclusion.

The story of a beautiful thoroughbred horse abused by its owners is also a story of courage and love. It is one of the greatest children's classics.

This collection features some of the greatest fictional detectives ever, including: Sherlock Holmes, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, Father Brown, Morris Klaw, and Inspector Morse amongst others. Reader Edward Hardwicke, who played Watson to Jeremy Brett's Holmes in the early 1990s, makes an ideal reader for the genre.

Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play and come away without fully understanding it? Or wished you had known the basis of the plot before seeing a play by Shakespeare? Are you studying Shakespeare? Would you like to increase your knowledge of the plays without reading the originals? Then these are the recordings for you!

La belle-mère d'Hansel et Gretel n'aime pas les enfants. Un jour, alors que la famine frappe durement la famille, la méchante bonne femme réussit à convaincre son mari d'abandonner le frère et la sœur au fin fond de la forêt, là où rôdent les loups. Seuls, perdus, affamés et fatigués, Hansel et Gretel vont faire une bien étonnante découverte : une maison entièrement construite en chocolat, nougat et autres friandises ! Mais cette demeure est celle d'une vilaine sorcière.

Il était une fois... Blanche Neige, une jeune et jolie princesse maltraitée par sa belle-mère, la reine, jalouse de sa beauté. Egarée dans la forêt, Blanche Neige se retrouve dans une chaumière habitée par sept nains qui deviennent ses amis et vont veiller sur elle. Mais un jour une mystérieuse vieille femme vient lui offrir une pomme empoisonnée.

Victime du sort que lui avait jeté la fée Maléfique, la princesse Aurore s'endormit pour toujours. Seul un baiser d'amour pourrait la réveiller...

For hundreds of years, the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world's most precious literary possessions. In 1902, the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and illustrate this classic. His four-volume work has long been considered one of the outstanding interpretations of the Arthurian cycle.

Believing in miracles can be hard work. Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrest has a lot to pray for: improving her bad grades, fixing her strained relationship with her mama, and most importantly, dealing with her guilt over the role she played in her daddy's death.

What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That's the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get along just fine, even if it's all right for the quarterback to be a cross dresser named Infinite Darlene and the cheerleaders to ride Harleys into the pep rally, the road to true love is still a strange and winding path, as Paul discovers when he meets the boy of his dreams.

Moongobble must complete one last Mighty Task before he is accepted into the Society of Magicians. But this one is a doozy: he must retrieve "The Queen's Belly Button", an enchanted stone that has turned an entire elf village bad! Soon Edward and Moongobble, along with Urk the Toad, Fireball the Dragon, and the Rusty Knight, are off on their greatest adventure yet. Can they regain the stone without turning evil themselves?

Welcome to the Rotten School, a new series set in a boarding school that's rotten to the core. The school motto is Growth, Learning, Pizza. Meet charming conniver Bernie Bridges, his arch-rival Sherman Oaks, housemother Mrs. Heinie, Coach Bunz, Headmaster I. Will Upchuck, and the rest of the students and faculty in two stories that prove that while good is good and bad is better, rotten is the best of all!

Die Geschichte von Onkel Toms Hütte ist fast 150 Jahre alt. Harriet Beecher-Stowe (1811-1896) veröffentlichte sie im Jahre 1852 zuerst als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in einer Zeitung in Washington. Als das erste Kapitel erschienen war, löste es ein außerordentlich heftiges Interesse aus. Wurde doch der amerikanischen Gesellschaft in den Südstaaten erbarmungslos ein Spiegel vorgehalten, in dem nackte Gewalt und die Barbarei der Sklaverei zu besichtigen waren. Die Spirituals "Nobody Knows The Trouble I See" und "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" singt Manfred Krug.

Robert Louis Stevensons Romane und Erzählungen sind weltbekannt geworden. Von 1890 bis zu seinem Tod 1894 lebte er auf der Samoa - Insel Upolu. Dort entstand auch die Novelle "Der Flaschenteufel", in der Keawe, der Held der Erzählung, in den Besitz einer Flasche gelang, in der ein Teufel wohnt, der alle Wünsche erfüllen kann. Diese Flasche muss man aber stets billiger verkaufen als man sie gekauft hat, denn es liegt ein Fluch auf der Flasche: wer noch im Besitz der Flasche ist, wenn er stirbt, der muss im ewigen Höllenfeuer schmoren. Wie es Keawe gelingt dem Fluch zu entkommen und wie ihm Kokua, seine Frau, dabei hilft, erzählt dieses Hörbuch.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.

Gabriel King is afraid of everything: spiders, the rope swing over the lake, and most of all, going to fifth grade. Frita Wilson, his best friend, decides Gabriel needs some liberating from his fears, so they make a list and plan to tackle each one. But one of the reasons Frita is so determined to help Gabe is that she needs his help too. Hollowell, Georgia, in 1976 isn't exactly the most integrated place, and Frita's the only Black student in school in a town with an active Ku Klux Klan.

I'm Lucy Rose, and here's the thing about this summer: I am big on fun and big on plans. I am desperate to make a lanyard keychain, and Jonique is feeling the same about potholders. Plus I have to get rid of 78 or more squirrels that are climbing all over Madam and Pop's apricot tree and taking bites out of the puny fruits and flinging them to the ground which is maddening to Madam who wants to make them into jam. The apricots, not the squirrels.