Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Action & Adventure

Kirsty has suffered from a terrifying nightmare since childhood and she comes to realise that her grandmother did not just fall downstairs, she was pushed. Kirsty's suspicions focus on her unfriendly aunt and she starts a campaign to find out the truth.

In another age, the pathways connecting Earth to the Wildworld were sealed, forever separating humans from the shimmering parallel universe where legends still live. A great sorceress, Morgana Shee, guards the solitary gate between the worlds. She alone holds the secret of Fell Andred, her mansion built directly on the Great Coastal Passage, whose mirrors are the last doorways to enchantment.

Max Flash, not your usual undercover agent...Max, explosive escapologist and master magician, is back for his second mission, and it's out of this world! The Department for Extraordinary Activity tells Max that there's a vicious alien race preparing for a revenge attack on Earth, and he must blast off into space to defend the planet. Has Max got what it takes to battle evil aliens and save his fellow humans from slavery?

Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a born fighter, it's in his gypsy blood. Freedom's no angel, but he's no killer either. When he's falsely accused of murder, the law gives him the chance to prove his worth, by in infiltrating a sinister fight game that's recruiting runaway boys. But what he discovers is something else. Something big. A mind-bending world of dangerous science, and a fight that never ends.

A little girl's gone missing in Lenton. Just disappeared from right outside the school. And everyone's blaming Ragger Bill, the homeless man who lives in the school boiler room. But The Outfit are sure Ragger Bill's innocent - and if the only way to prove it is to find the missing girl, then that's what they'll have to do...

When Charlie falls off a stepping stone in the woods, her whole world suddenly changes. She stumbles in the 21st century, and picks herself up in the middle of the 20th. She's a pupil at a weird outdoor school. Can she get back to her own time?

It is 1956. Freddy and Polly have never minded helping their genius father with his experiments. Even when that means being put into cryonic suspension having their hearts frozen.... It is 2009. Ben and Rachel have resigned themselves to a long, dull summer when they find the hidden underground vault in the garden and inside it two frozen figures, a boy and a girl...Can Polly and Freddy adapt to the 21st century?

Henry Grim has never discovered a forbidden room in a foreign castle, or received a death threat over breakfast. All Henry knows is life as an orphaned servant boy at the Midsummer School, bullied by the privileged sons of aristocracy. But all that changes when Henry is the first commoner to pass the entrance exam for the prestigious Knightley Academy, where he will be trained as a modern-day knight alongside the cleverest and bravest fourteen-year-olds in the country.

Re-enter the world of Dunce where magical hero Bran Hambric has recently discovered a safe deposit box in his mother's name-in the very vault where he was discovered as a boy. Now he's on a frightening path that eventually leads to his father, whom Bran believed to be dead. When Bran's best friend, Astara, is kidnapped and turned into a Specter, he must explore a side of himself he never knew existed. But will the magic destroy him the way it destroyed his mother?

With humans threatened by otherworldly creatures, orphans Emily and William Snow, and their friends - the pickpocket Spring-Heeled Jack and the wisecracking Corrigan - find themselves two hundred years in the past, trapped in the London of 1666.

Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever. Isn't it? Not anymore, as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the present. It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine has a horrifying potential.

Eddie hates staying with his cousins - so it looks set to be a really long summer. But then they visit the amazing caves at Wookey Hole and Eddie is entranced. Until he wanders off down a secret passage and gets lost in the dark. Underground, on his own, and nobody knows where he is... Then someone steps out of the blackness to help him. A strange, pale girl called Gwerren who seems to treat the caves as a playground.

In una luminosa mattina di fine estate, una carovana di carrozze lascia la Città d'Oro per imboccare le stradine sterrate delle Terre Selvagge. Per la prima volta dopo tanti anni, Lucenti e NonLucenti convivono serenamente, e nel villaggio di Birkesnow li attende una grande festa in onore della nuova regina e della pace ritrovata. Ma non è tutto oro ciò che luccica. E Lisbeth lo sa bene.

Al di là di tutti i confini, al di là dei mari, dei fiumi e delle montagne, esiste una città magnifica. Le sue strade sono lastricate d'oro, i suoi palazzi sono splendenti e le sue torri si specchiano nelle acque cristalline del lago Smisurato. Non c'è al mondo luogo più felice della Città d'Oro, e non ci sono al mondo persone più felici dei suoi abitanti. Sì, perché i Lucenti sono dotati di straordinari poteri magici. All'età di tredici anni, vedono i capelli tingersi d'oro e i piedi staccarsi dal suolo in un volo gentile.

Cagliostro è giunto a Venezia, circondato dalla fama di mago e guaritore, deciso a rubare il più prezioso tesoro della Serenissima: lo smeraldo Di Tebe, che si dice in grado di compiere miracoli. Ma la sua abilità può ingannare tutti, tranne la bella Serafina, la Principessa dei Ladri e i suoi piccoli compagni. Nella nebbia delle notti veneziane nasce la più strana delle alleanze, per compiere l'impresa del secolo.

Yeyewata è un piccolo villaggio di palafitte dove vive una libera comunità di bambini che si autogoverna con i propri sogni e dove non esiste la proprietà ma tutto viene condiviso. Qui i sogni godono di una tale importanza da essere utilizzati per trovare risposte ai problemi della vita quotidiana. Al compimento dei dieci anni, infatti, ogni membro della comunità deve raccontare il proprio sogno per inserirlo nel grande Libro. Ma quando arriva il suo turno, Cocopa ha da raccontare solo incubi.

Fa freddo quassù, Osso. Roba da farti gelare le dita dei piedi nelle scarpe. Se ce le avessimo, le scarpe. Siamo di nuovo affamati, sempre a caccia. Di conigli, di animali selvaggi. E di quegli animali ancora più pericolosi, gli uomini che setacciano i fiumi ghiacciati alla ricerca dell’oro. Va bene, Osso, la smetto, la smetto. Faccio come gli altri: e sto zitto. Ma solo per un po’.

Cuando la profesora Iris pide a sus alumnos llevar un huevo pintado a clase, Lucas se olvida y no lo hace a tiempo. Para evitar una regañina, decide tomar prestado un huevo del mundo mágico de Imaginaria con la intención de devolverlo al volver de clase. Lo que no imagina es que el huevo eclosionará... y provocará una nueva aventura de los Rescatadores Mágicos, que tendrán que arreglar el lío... ¡antes de que se descubra su secreto!

La llegada de la primavera revoluciona a fray Perico y a sus compañeros. Y es que dicha estación no solo lleva al convento las flores y el buen tiempo, sino tambien a unos ladrones un tanto atípicos y hasta a unos soldados franceses. Pero... ¿que pasará? ¿conseguirán finalmente acabar con la paciencia del pacífico fraile? Un libro donde se entremezcla el humor, la inocencia y la solidaridad.

L’Amanda (o la Xayree, com li agrada que li diguin) és una aspirant a fada. La seva mare va morir fa tres anys i el seu pare, el famós cantant de rap Grade Garlic, passa llargues temporades a Miami.Per sort, el primer dia de classe coneixdos nens, la Teresa i el Gustavo, que semblendisposats a embarcar-se amb ella en l’aventurade trobar un unicorn, aprendre a multiplicarels diners i fabricar una poció d’amor.Són les tres proves que calenper convertir-se en fades de debò.