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Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die. For Lucian "Lucky" Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an "Incentive" - a family member - to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he'll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother.

Kitty is living a happy, carefree life as a dairymaid in the countryside. The grand family she is employed by looks after her well, and she loves caring for the gentle cows and working in the cool, calm dairy. And then, of course, there is Will, the river man who she thinks is very fond of her, and indeed she is of him. Surely he will ask her to marry him soon? Then one-day disaster strikes: Will disappears. So when Kitty is asked to go to London to pick up a copy of Pride and Prejudice, the latest novel by the very fashionable Jane Austen, Kitty leaps at the chance to track down Will.

Impossible! Suicidal! That's 13-year-old Cat's reaction to her impulsive, irrepressible cousin Ty's harebrained scheme to spread the ashes of their late fathers at the summit of the same treacherous mountain that claimed both their lives. But when Ty sets off on his own - stealing her dog and her father's ashes - Cat is forced to follow against her better judgment. Things deteriorate quickly. Avalanches, dangerous glacial crevasses, and a blinding blizzard force Cat to put all her mountaineering knowledge to work if they are to survive.

A lonely pair of magic boots are locked up in a tower and in need of good home. Titch and Mitch would dearly love to have them, but the boots have other ideas...Escaped lions, mercy missions, a turkey with special powers, Christmas chaos and some very strange cheese! These two pixies take it all in their stride.The fourth fantastic 'Titch and Mitch' story from best-selling author Garth Edwards.

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.

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.

Edwin really doesn't want to be a big brother. Forced to move house, start a new school and make way for this unwelcome interloper in his parents' affections, he feels like everything is chaos. But things might not be as bad as he fears, as Edwin makes an unusual pen-pal, Lanthorne, who introduces him to a strange world filled with dark secrets and thrilling adventures. This excitement seems safe until those secrets and adventures start to intrude on Edwin's life and, more worryingly, on the life of his baby sister.