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Stoppt die Aliens! Eine Klassenfahrt mit Katja, Big Mak und Chets? Toll, findet Lance. Doch kaum erreicht ihr Bus Camp Crater Lake, geht der Horror los: Da ist der brabbelnde, blutige Kerl, der über die Zufahrt stolpert. Und der Camp-Chef mit dem verdächtig fleckigen Hemd, der alle viel zu früh aufs Zimmer schickt. Als die Kinder beim nächtlichen Geheimtreff dann schlafwandelnde Schüler mit Wespen-Augen sichten, wird klar: Crater Lake ist Schauplatz einer Alien-Invasion. Und nur wer wach bleibt, kann dem Unheil ein Ende setzen.

Mr. Edison has just invented a long-burning light bulb, but he's keeping a huge secret: he's also discovered time travel. In fact, he built his own time machine. The kids get an even bigger surprise when a young Mr. Crowe walks into Edison's laboratory - as his assistant! The older and dangerous Mr. Crowe is sneaking around Menlo Park, too, with plans to destroy the time machine. If he does, George and Gracie will be stuck in 1879...forever. The twins need Mr. Edison's help. But can they stop Crowe in time?

The world of Colony is in ruins. No one knows what caused society to begin tearing itself apart—but the secret may lie with Cora, a girl living on the mountainside far away from others. Cora possesses an extraordinary gift: the power to see back in time, from an event back to its causes. Even more incredibly, sometimes she can change events. But the present is looking for Cora, and she is forced on the run—and must decide who she is, what she can do...and how to fix the future.

Véra vit dans la galaxie d'Andromède, située à des centaines d'années-lumière de la Voie Lactée, et donc de la Terre ! Là-bas, beaucoup de choses sont différentes, à commencer par les habitants aux noms bizarres : les Euphémériens, les Magniox, les Irisiens et les Cortéxiens. La petite extra-terrestre au caractère bien trempé passe des journées fantacosmiques avec ses copains d'école et son robot-chat B54 ! Véra croit tout savoir ! Jusqu'au jour où, avec le nouveau de la classe, un certain Gégatron, elle doit faire un exposé sur la Terre.

The annual Great Quest is about to be announced in Quendel, which will determine the futures of Marcus and the other boys from the village who are coming of age. The wizard Zyll commands them to find the Rock of Ivanore, but he doesn't tell them what the rock is exactly or where it can be found. Marcus must reach deep within himself to find the powers of magic and the strength to survive the wild lands and fierce enemies he encounters as he searches for the elusive rock.

Zoe Guire just talked to an elephant. Well, technically speaking, the elephant spoke to her, but either way it was weird and, as a rule, Zoe doesn't do weird. Except the thing is, when Zoe goes along on her mom's business trip to India, things get very weird, very quickly. Soon after she arrives, Zoe finds herself tagging alongside a kid named Zak, lost in a crazy city, with no money and no way home.

In this first book of The Guardian Angel series, the story's narrator, Pelagius the angel, introduces us to life in 1364 A.D. and to Brin, a teenage gypsy who is despised by his people because his mother died of the plague and his father was a follower of God. This powerless teen's future seems hopeless until a hooded stranger presents him with a challenge and also a warning to beware of "the enemy". Thrown into a dangerous adventure, Brin must choose good over evil in order to find his earthly father's love and his heavenly Father's will.

Percy Jackson fans will embrace this humorous time travel adventure, the first in a series, about an iPhone malfunction that sends three kids back to 1776 in time to rescue George Washington. On Christmas Day, Mel finds General George Washington lying dead as a doornail in a stable. But Mel knows that George Washington must cross the Delaware River, or the course of American history will be changed forever. Could Mel’s iPhone have sent him back in time to 1776? And can Mel and his schoolmates, know-it-all Bev and laid-back Brandon, come to the rescue?

When five members of a middle school marching band are accidentally projected into an alternative universe during a field trip to the NASA headquarters, their fates land in the hands of the Multiverse Allied Council: a group of extraterrestrial delegates responsible for preserving harmony across the multiverse. Then Dev, Isaiah, Tessa, Maeve, and Lewis discover that Earth’s destruction is imminent due to an environmental collapse caused by humans. What can they do when their most formidable skill is marching in formation?

In the next Clone Codes installment, Houston, a Cyborg, tells his story. Set in the year 2130, the World Federation of Nations determines through laws and regulations that all enhanced persons with three or more synthetic body or organ replacements are classified as three-fifths of a human being. As such, Houston is considered less than human, and must fight to overcome the rules of his strange universe.

Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead, having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games? Dystopian fiction at its very best in this thrilling instalment in the Legend trilogy.

David can’t wait to spend another summer at his grandmother’s Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast - a vacation hot spot for aliens. But this summer isn’t quite what he was expecting. There are some new faces at the B&B this year, including a doglike purple creature named Snarffle, who appears in David’s room out of nowhere, and Scratchull, Grandma’s new alien repairman. With David’s friend Amy running everything at the B&B, and Grandma busy, David feels like he doesn’t fit in.

Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley...as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times, different ears: including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly, now isn't the safe place Johnny once thought it was as he finds himself caught up more and more with then.

Victor Shmud has been many things: knuckle doctor, a hunter of ghost bears, a tattoo artist, the guy at the restaurant who puts the sugar in those little envelopes, a computer scientist, an octopus wrestler, and a wedding planner. In fact he's been nearly everything (definitely not a guy who cleans up bedrooms yet). But his newest gig is beautifuller (yes, that's a word. He's also a licensed wordmaker). He can make anyone gorgeous with a gob of his beauty treatment (complete with mustard molecules).

Mrs. Huffity's fifth grade class has a new project. It's a wish garden. Unfortunately, some of their wishes come true. Carrie, David, and Ivy accidentally travel to another world. To get home, they must save a prince from a curse and stop an evil sorceress. Along the way, they might even become friends.

The last thing sixth-grader Bella Rhodes remembers (before the world as she knew it disappeared) is visiting the Skydeck at Chicago's Willis Tower. What happens next can't be explained as Bella finds herself back in Bible times during the days of the tower of Babel in ancient Shinar! Imagine....The Tower Rising is the sixth release in an exciting epic adventure series for kids ages 8 to 12 written by schoolteacher Matt Koceich. The Imagine series brings the Bible to life for today's kids as they ponder what it would be like to live through a monumental biblical event.

Arcade, Zoe, and their new friend, Doug, are traveling from New York to Virginia to stay with their cousins and best friends, Derek and Celeste. It's a chance for Arcade to feel normal again after his latest series of adventures. But nothing is normal as long as the Triple T Token is hanging around his neck. Plus, Derek claims he's stumbled upon some troubling information, and now a suspicious person is following him. Arcade wonders if the trouble is related to the token - after all, someone has already tried to take it from him once.

Barry is a penguin detective with enough gumption to carry him from one end of the earth to the other and back again. When Father Christmas is kidnapped by the evil Bedbug Queen it looks like Christmas will be destroyed forever. Only the chosen one, a girl called Phoebe, can save him. But she hates Christmas... Will Barry convince her to help him? Will they reach Father Christmas before midnight strikes? Will they have the power to stop the evil Bedbug Queen?

Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching out beneath him. His mum doesn’t really like looking outside - but it’s going outside that she hates. She’s happier sleeping all day inside their tower, where it’s safe. But one day, other tower blocks on the estate start falling down around them, and strange, menacing plants begin to appear. Now their tower isn’t safe anymore. Ade and his mum are trapped, and there’s no way out.

Simon and company must enter the mysterious undersea realm of the Order of Biology to find Sirabetta before she can restore her powers. Aided by old allies and some new ones, the kids struggle with fierce beasts, dangerous enemies, and their own evolving abilities. Blending humor, suspense, and science - and throwing new octopus powers into the mix - Michael Reisman brings us another outstandingly original adventure.