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Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice - but odd - new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly do good in the town, but they’re haunted by the fact that the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will disappear - along with any memory that they ever had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping their powers?

The Aldens are spending their first week of summer at Camp Quest in Colorado. The children are excited to learn about fossil-hunting and paleontology from renowned scientist Dr. Iris Perez. But strange events at the camp make them wonder if the legends of a bigfoot-like creature roaming the valley might be more fact than fiction. Can the Aldens help Dr. Iris figure out who - or what - is causing such a stir?

La grand-mère de Cléo meanait d'incroyables enquêtes lorsqu'elle avait 12 ans ! Cléo raconte ses aventures ! Cléo te raconte les enquêtes que sa grand-mère Noémie a menées avec son amie Mona quand elles avaient son âge. Automne 1966 : Valentin, un charmant garçon qu'elles ont remarqué dans le bus au retour du lycée semble avoir disparu. Qu'est-il devenu ? Que cache cet étrange mystère ? Avec détermination elles se lancent sur sa piste, dans une enquête qui va les mener de surprise en surprise.

Cléo te raconte une nouvelle enquête menée par sa grand-mère quand elle avait son âge.Printemps 1967 : Dans le village où Noémie et Mona passent leurs vacances, un fermier doit faire face à une série de malchances qui ne semblent pas naturelles. La rumeur court qu'il est victime d'un envoûtement et on accuse le rebouteux, qu'on suspecte de sorcellerie. Les deux filles mènent l'enquête, persuadées que, derrière les apparences, un personnage mystérieux agit dans l'ombre.

La grand-mère de Cléo menait d'incroyables enquêtes lorsqu'elle avait 12 ans ! Cléo raconte ses aventures ! Cléo, 12 ans, te raconte les enquêtes menées par sa grand-mère Noémie quand elle avait son âge. Décembre 1966 : Noémie et Mona sont bien décidées à explorer la galerie qui s'enfonce sous la colline, au fond de la cour du lycée. Peut-être découvriront-elles le fameux passage secret qui date de quatre siècles ? Elles ignorent que le souterrain cache désormais d'étranges agissements.

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.

Famed inventor Henry "Hank" Witherspoon has gone missing, and it's up to Jack and his brilliant siblings, Ava and Matt, to find him. At Hank's ransacked lab, the siblings discover clues to the project he's been working on - a new way to generate and store electricity, inspired by the electric eels of the Amazon.

Leo and Remi have saved the wacky, wonderful Whippet Hotel, but their adventures aren't over. Anything is possible on the field of wacky inventions: some are scary (like a genetically altered twelve-foot chicken); some are dangerous (like a pond full of electric eels); some are completely out of control; and somehow, Leo and Remi will take it all in stride.

Connor and Ethan are bamboozled when Starville, the space station where they live, is overrun with cosmic chaos! Boys have two heads, dogs have three tails, and even aliens who normally have six arms are growing extra ones! What is going on? Can Connor and Ethan get to the bottom of this intergalactic mystery?

Transplanted from her exciting life as an explorer's daughter, Freya finds herself miserable at boarding school. She hates the boring rules, the other girls are mean and the headmistress is frostiness personified. When a bat removal expert is called in to deal with an infestation, Freya meets his children and makes friends at last. They explore the city, with particular interest in the grand exhibition showing priceless artefacts for the first time. Then the objects are stolen in a heist, and Freya is sure her new friends are responsible - but the true culprit might be closer to home.

Un soir de vacances, alors que la nuit tombe, Axel et son amie Violette découvrent un train étrange qui semble abandonné. Une locomotive, suivie d'un seul wagon, stationne sur une voie secondaire qui se poursuit en plein bois. Pourtant, deux hommes sortent soudainement du wagon qu'ils referment avec soin. Que cachent-ils ? Pourquoi ne veulent-ils pas qu'on les approche ? Et pour quelle raison font-ils le trajet chaque nuit jusqu'à la gare suivante ? Aidés par la petite Julia qu'ils rencontrent, Axel et Violette vont enquêter afin de percer le secret du train mystérieux.

Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next.

Looking forward to a visit to Sea Gull Beach, the Happy Hollister children have a wonderful time giving a play about pirates and American sailors. Then, when they discover that a present they received from Uncle Russ, a lighthouse lamp, contains a real emerald, they are more eager than ever to get to Sea Gull Beach and find out where it came from.

A big fish contest at The Trading Post, the Hollisters’ sporting goods store, has everybody in Shoreham excited. After Pete catches a large fish with a tag on its tail, another adventure begins for the eager young detectives. When the children’s friend, Bobby Reed, disappears in a leaky old boat, the whole family helps in the search. A series of surprise discoveries lead the Hollisters on a hunt for Bobby on shore, and other adventures provide good times along the way.

The Aldens visit Ireland and stay in a beautiful castle that's now a hotel! But the caretaker seems very superstitious, and at night they see a mysterious figure who walks the halls carrying a lantern. Could it be one of the banshees of ancient legend? The Boxcar Children must discover the secret that Duncarraig castle is hiding!

Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him all the so-called treasure in his overstuffed junk shop of an apartment, Ted explores it like it's another level to beat. And to his shock, he finds that eccentric Great-Uncle Ted actually has set the place up like a real-life escape-the-room game!

Fourteen-year-old Jay Cooper is enjoying the view from his Uncle Rex's Cessna when a low-flying 757 speeds past them. Caught in its wind turbulence, their small plane is shaken violently, knocking Rex unconscious and leaving Jay blind from a head injury. With fuel running out fast, Jay drifting in and out of consciousness, and the plane heading straight for a mountain range, this high-flying adventure shows the importance of faith as Jay faces numerous unseen dangers.

Lost: one little boy. When Little Alfred runs away from home and winds up in the Dark Unchanted Forest being trailed by a bobcat, Hank the Cowdog knows that it's up to him to save his young master. So, mustering up all the courage that a Head of Ranch Security can come up with, he bravely makes his way into the forest.

Now that Andi is no longer running a hotel for dogs, she decides to start a new project -- a newspaper for dogs! With her brother Bruce and a few friends, the kids make a hit out of their paper. But they also attract the attention of some mysterious dognappers. Can the kids find the criminals and bring their dogs safely home?

In 1885, the Murphy mine struck gold. According to legend, Annie Murphy killed her husband out of greed. Just before she was to be hanged for the murder, she escaped. Now, a hundred years later, there have been sightings of Annie Murphy's "ghost." The Coopers unwittingly become involved in a mystery that finds them caught between the past and the present.