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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!

In "The Lion's Slave", Archimedes' servant Lydia is the bane of his life. But when the Romans besiege Syracuse, it is Lydia who comes up with ways to help the Greeks.... "The Town Mouse and the Spartan House" sees orphaned Darius going to live with his uncle Alcmaeon, a general in the Spartan army - but he finds Spartan life shocking. In "The Boy Who Cried Horse", young Acheron is known for his tall tales. So when he tells Prince Paris that the Trojan Horse is a Greek plot, no-one believes him....

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.

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.

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?

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.

Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity.

When James hid in the Nothing Shop he didn't expect to find anyone there. And he didn't expect to find himself buying a box of nothing, a bit of the original nothing which was there before the universe began. But from that adventure flowed James's whole adventure on the Dump, his meeting with the odd but friendly creature that called itself the Burra, with the terrible rat-general and with the alarming gull people, until the final race across the desert to the beginning (or the end) of everything.

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.

Garrapata y Carafoca han simulado hacerse el haraquiri en honor del emperador. Este, desconsolado, decide celebrar la ceremonia fúnebre en el Templo del Sueño Sempiterno de Pekín. Pero los dos piratas no están de acuerdo y quieren huir de allí como sea.

Tras incendiar el palacio del Emperador, el pirata Garrapata y su compañero Carafoca caen presos en una cruel cárcel china, la cárcel de Fuchín. Allí son sometidos a durísimos interrogatorios y torturas, pero consiguen escapar junto a otros presos. Garrapata (disfrazado de bonzo), Carafoca y los demás reos van al palacio del Emperador, Shi Hoang Ti, y logran engañarle, haciéndole creer que es un bonzo de verdad. Garrapata descubre que en el palacio se encuentra su amada Floripondia, y que ésta se va a casar con el Emperador.

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.

La Guerra de la Independencia española ha terminado, pero ha dejado el convento de fray Perico lleno de tejas rotas, de agujeros, la torre torcida y nada con que alimentarse. ¿Que soluciones encontrarán los apurados monjes? Una historia de humor, aventuras y amor a los animales.

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.

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