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Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants and even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill. But a new life is now beginning for Roz - she has been taken away, far away from her island, back to civilisation. Where she must pretend that she is a robot like any other - there to follow orders and to carry out tasks on the farm where she now works.

After their plan to rescue the prince of Gallica has gone horribly wrong, Will Treaty and his apprentice, Maddie, are being held captive at the Chateau des Falaises in Gallica. The dangerous baron Lassigny is intent on keeping them - and the prince - no matter what. But Will and Maddie are determined to escape. If they ever want to return to their home, they’ll have to find ways to outwit the baron and get outside the locked tower. When friends from home endeavour to find their own way to help, it seems escape is closer than ever.

Eden's visit to The Escape sees her dropped into a world of puzzles and peril with no way out. She must find the keys, climb the levels and meet her fate. But what if she's not playing the game? Maybe the game is playing her...

Almost nothing could be as bad as finding out your mother is Visser One, the most powerful leader of the Yeerk invasion of Earth. But it happened to Marco. And even though he's been handling it pretty well, he knew there'd come a time when he'd have to face her again, knowing that the Yeerk in her brain has taken his mother away. So when Marco and the other Animorphs discover that Visser One is overseeing a secret underwater project, they know they have to check it out. But Marco's not sure if this is a battle he'll be able to fight.

The Krusty Krab is celebrating its eleventy-seventh anniversary, and Mr. Krabs is looking forward to selling lots of Krabby Patties. But just before the celebration is about to begin, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Patrick, and SpongeBob accidentally lock themselves in the freezer! While they make their way through the maze of air shafts above the Krusty Krab, reminiscing about their favorite memories along the way, Plankton finally gets his hands on the Krabby Patty formula! Will they get out in time to save the formula and celebrate the eleventy-seventh anniversary?

Stevie is in for a big surprise while building his treehouse: He's first attacked by a creeper, and then must take on a group of zombies! The near miss has him feeling like the worst mob fighter in Minecraft, so when he finds a portal into a brand-new world, he's willing to take his chances. He steps out of a computer screen and into the room of a sixth-grade girl Maison, who's a talented Minecraft builder.

When 12-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it’s just a game - the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they have been chosen to save the world and that they must work together to find the Answer. But as he locks them inside the first room, they quickly realise this is no ordinary game.

December, 1961, Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East—with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989, Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?

The last thing Jack expected when he bungee-jumped at the fairground was to go plummeting right through the ground into the weird, wonderful Rooms.... There he must face a series of puzzles and traps alongside a mysterious girl called Cally, in order for them to find their way home. Throw in a murderous polar bear, hundreds of tiny yet ferocious lions, some mind-blowing riddles, and get ready for a hilarious, helter-skelter adventure like no other!

Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.

Now that Pauline Esmeralda Simone-Thierry von Cant has been rescued from Castle Cant by her half-sister and former maidservant, Lucy, the real adventure begins. For there are forces that want to tear Pauline and Lucy apart. In their land, a war rages over chewing gum.

After Will is caught listening to music on his phone in class again, his mum has had enough. Will is sent to a ‘rewilding’ camp in the middle of the woods for kids addicted to tech.... Disaster. Not only is the camp a screen-free snooze-fest, Will realises he has accidentally taken something of his brother’s that he must return urgently. And with no way of contacting him, Will and his three new friends plot to escape the camp in the middle of the night, and embark on a ridiculous journey through the woods.

Free from the lab at last, talking mouse Isaiah lives a picture-perfect life with his human friend, Hailey. But the evil scientists – and their evil cats – are hot on his tail. When they mouse-nap his friend Mikayla, it's up to Isaiah and Hailey to rescue her. Their search takes them on a cross-country adventure, facing foes and making unexpected friends. If they find Mikayla, they might even manage to free Isaiah's siblings and create a happy ending for all of the lab mice.

Wrongfully accused of being a 'Star Bandit,' ten-year-old Jax is sentenced to life in Asteroid Prison XK-5, a high-tech dungeon where hope goes to die. Surrounded by humming machinery, ever-watching laser eyes, and served daily bowls of disgusting 'Glow-Slop,' Jax's future looks as bleak as the endless space outside his porthole. But a mysterious whisper in the vents from an old, four-armed inmate named Zorp sparks an impossible plan. Using a map made of stardust, a key carved from a spork, and a forgotten ship hidden in the asteroid's heart, they must outwit the cruel and cunning Warden Grol.

A cry for help from a sinking island…A rescue mission leads Jay and Lila Cooper to a doomed South Sea island where nothing is as they expected. Instead of a primitive civilization, the Coopers encounter a busy colony with a mysterious leader claiming to be Adam MacKenzie, a missionary once presumed dead. To add to the confusion, someone seems to have pushed the island's self-destruct button. Earthquakes and erosion are tearing the island apart, and every moment is precious in the Coopers' search for the real Adam MacKenzie.

Stacy would do anything to protect the taiga where she lives with the pack of intelligent wolves who raised her. But when humans start to encroach on their forest, their only choice is escape to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. The mesa, with its canyons, snakes, and coyotes, will be like nothing the pack has ever seen. Even in this unfamiliar territory, Stacy is determined to rescue animals in need. But as she and her wolves face new dangers and old secrets, Stacy can’t help but wonder - where does she truly belong?

Timmy has really hit ROCK BOTTOM! He's been sent to THE PITS – the darkest, scariest place under Earth! He needs to find a way out. But only one pony has EVER managed...a GREAT ESCAPE. Now Timmy's planning a greatER escape! Surely it's not that hard to get outta there?!

Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet, set on the haunting Alcatraz Island. Legendary literary game maker Garrison Griswold is back in action - this time with "Unlock the Rock", an extravaganza on Alcatraz Island. But just as the fun starts to take off for Emily and James, important items from Griswold's game begin to disappear, and someone is framing Emily's brother, Matthew, as the criminal.

Zak Nine and his Quom friend, Erro, are desperate to get off planet Alcatraz. The boys believe they've finally found a way to freedom when they join up with another prisoner. Together with their new partner, the boys board a small spacecraft and fly off the planet, past the metal moon, and head into space. But when the stars begin to look strange, Zak and Erro realize that something is very wrong. What will happen when the boys learn Planet Alcatraz's biggest secret? Will they ever get to return home?

After escaping the clutches of Mayor Highshine for a second time, Scrap, Paige, and Gnat make the perilous journey to the ocean jungles in search of the last rocket ship on Somewhere 513. As they struggle to liberate the ship from a family of vicious frogbears, disaster strikes and it suffers a near-fatal crash. As Scrap works to repair the ship, things go from bad to worse when he makes a discovery that means leaving is impossible.