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When Keeker and Plum take a family road trip to upstate New York, Keeker is sure it will be the best family vacation yet. (Plum, on the other hand, is not convinced!) Keeker is excited to splash in the neighborhood pond and ride ponies in the country with her cousins. What she doesn't know is that the nearby town of Sleepy Hollow holds a mystery that will make this a very memorable family vacation!

When Martin dresses up the newel post in his family's creaky old house, he finds he becomes oddly fascinated with it - until a frightening encounter on the stairs makes him wonder whether his imagination is running away with him. In this collection of strange and creepy stories, Jenny knows she shouldn't have managed to appear twice in the school photo; Gary becomes strangely moody when he takes the old miser's two-shilling coin in change and Jean's compost heap seems to take on a life of its own.

Keeker and Plum get to go to sleepaway camp for a whole week. But fun turns to surprise when Keeker learns that her bunkmate is none other than her horse-show rival, Tifni. The girls put aside their differences and become fast friends, but when Tifni's spirited pony bolts, Keeker has to decide whether to play it safe or save her friend.

A classic fable from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, read by Johnny Morris. Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

It's mud season in Vermont and Keeker is so bored she doesn't know what to do. But when a new neighbor starts mixing a strange concoction in the shack on her farm, Keeker and Plum get wrapped up in an exciting investigation!

When a flyer arrives announcing an upcoming horse show, Keeker and Plum are determined to enter! They work hard to prepare, but will it be enough?

You would not think, to look at me, that I was a dangerous alien... I find it hard to believe myself, even after everything that has happened. It began when our new neighbours moved in. I should have realised then that something strange was going on... but it was not until later that I knew the whole appalling truth.

Binny's life has been difficult since her father died and Binny's life has been difficult since her father died and her dreadful old Aunt Violet disposed of her beloved dog, Max. Her world changed then, to a city flat with not enough space for her Mum, her big sister Clem, and her small brother James. Definitely no room for a pet. Then one day Aunt Violet dies, leaving a small cottage in Cornwall to Binny and her family. Binny finds herself in a new world once more, full of sunshine and freedom and Gareth, the enemy-next-door and the ideal companion for dangerous dares.

Freya has come back to the remote island where her grandparents live, and where last summer her brother Joe died in a boating accident. But what really happened that night? Freya is not convinced that it was an accident and feels as if Joe’s presence is still haunting her. Perhaps, this summer, Freya will find a way to work out what happened, and pull herself and her family out of the sorrow that is threatening to overwhelm them. And perhaps Freya will discover that life and love is still vibrantly in the air.

The Old Inn clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean. Ethan and Cathy are sick. Their father has left them to fetch a doctor... but they are not alone for long. A visitor comes begging for shelter, and so the children, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them.

Best-selling poets Roger McGough and Brian Patten read a sizzling selection of their own hilarious poems from their respective collections, Sky in the Pie and Gargling with Jelly. With music, jokes and irresistibly funny verse, this is poetry with a difference that will appeal to all children who love ridiculous rhymes.

Nasruddin made a bet with some friends that he could stand all night long outside, in the middle of the square, with no clothes on. They all said it was too cold. They all decided that if he could make it through the night with no heat, they would make him dinner, and if he failed he would cook them dinner. He went into the square. As it got later it got colder. Colder and colder and colder. Nasruddin was about to give up and go inside to get warm when he saw a candle in a window across the square.

Was, wenn das System entscheidet, ob dein Leben zählt? Jenna hat es geschafft: Sie hat den Score für die »Eine Milliarde« geknackt und darf als eine von wenigen Privilegierten nach New Valley. Hier wurde EQUILON entwickelt, der Algorithmus, mit dem der von Armut und Klimawandel erschütterte Planet wieder bewohnbar gemacht werden soll. Als Rebellen eine Veranstaltung sprengen, erahnt sie erstmals die Schattenseite dieser glanzvollen Welt.

Da la casualidad de que Garrapata está subido sobre el hombro de la estatua del dios Amón Ra cuando le toca el famoso rayo de sol. El pirata será el próximo faraón de Egipto. De la impresión, Garrapata se cae al suelo y, cuando vuelve en sí, su mente ha retrocedido hasta la época de Tutankamón... Menos mal que se encuentra con su compañero Carafoca en plena construcción de una pirámide. Ambos huyen y van a parar a la corte de Akhenatón, padre de Tutankamón que, increíblemente, tiene un gran parecido físico con Garrapata.

お子さんに、お孫さんに、入学やお誕生日のプレゼントに![はじめて読む「ロミオとジュリエット」としておすすめ]

お子さんに、お孫さんに、入学やお誕生日のプレゼントに![はじめて読む「雪の女王」としておすすめ]

Huyendo de los tragaldabas y otras tribus del África, el pirata Garrapata y su tripulación llegan hasta el río Nilo y allí descubren que los grandes sacerdotes del faraón, convencidos de que la hermosa Floripondia es la reencarnación de la diosa Isis, la han secuestrado.

優しく気高い心をもったセーラは、お父様と離れ、ロンドンの女学院で、たくさんの友達に囲まれて「王女」のように幸せな毎日を送っていました。でも、突然お父様が亡くなり、セーラの生活は一変してしまいます……。

Carletto Annovazzi, soprannominato Il Moro dagli amici, sogna di diventare un calciatore dell'Inter. Squadra che vince non si cambia, e l'Inter infatti continua a collezionare scudetti e derby da tantissimi anni. Qualcuno dice che queste vittorie siano merito di una maledizione scagliata sul Milan. Carletto però non ha mai dato peso a tali voci. Lui ha occhi solo per il suo idolo: Giuseppe Meazza, il più grande marcatore di tutti i tempi.

Le buveur d'encre s'aventure en Égypte ! Marceline, une amie archéologue de Draculivre, l'invite en Égypte : elle a fait une découverte incroyable dans la Vallée des rois. Seulement, quand ils se retrouvent dans les ruines, rien ne se passe comme prévu ! Draculivre déclenche un piège et réveille une momie victime de malédiction... Sortiront-ils vivants de ce tombeau ?