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Amos Daragon, un brillant garçon de douze ans, devient malgré lui le premier élu de la nouvelle génération des porteurs de masques. Instauré par la Dame Blanche, déesse suprême, ce culte modifiera sa destinée et celle de ses parents. Sa dangereuse mission consiste à rétablir l'équilibre du monde, menacé par la guerre sans merci que se livrent les dieux du bien et du mal.

Que se passe-t-il chez les dieux? Seraient-ils tentés de se servir d'Amos Daragon pour accomplir leurs funestes desseins? Au lendemain d'une épopée qui lui permet de ramener la paix dans le royaume, maintenant gouverné par son ami Junos, Amos Daragon se voit investi d'une autre mission, pour le moins obscure. La visite inattendue d'une énigmatique jeune fille bouleversera le destin du porteur de masques et de ses compagnons.

Rien ne va plus dans le panthéon nordique des dieux du Bien. En froid avec le dieu Odin, la déesse de la Fécondité, Freyja, jette une malédiction sur les Béorites, le peuple favori de son ennemi: désormais, tous les enfants de ces hommanimaux mourront au berceau, ce qui voue la race à une disparition certaine. Les Béorites décident donc de naviguer vers l'île de la déesse pour tenter de la raisonner.

Des hordes de gobelins attaquent les villes et les villages, ne laissant derrière eux que mort et désolation. La ville de Berrion est réduite en cendres et, très loin dans le Nord, une montagne s'est mise à rugir. La race des dragons est sur le point de renaître. Le grand cataclysme annoncé par les légendes va-t-il entraîner l'apocalypse? Le destin du monde serait déjà scellé si Amos Daragon n'avait pas échappé à la mort par miracle.

L'imperium est victorieux. Nayla Kaertan, a été capturée par l'Inquisition et est en route vers la planète mère. Saura-t-elle résister à la puissance de Dieu qui veut se nourrir de sa force vitale ?

C'è un campo, la Base, dove crescono i bambini senza ricordi o memoria. Tra loro c'è un gruppo più vivace, composto da Hana, capo del Guscio, dura e metodica, Dudu, sempre attento e guardingo, Glor, grande e goffo, Cranach, il più lento di tutti, Orla, la più piccola, e infine ZeroSette, l'ultimo arrivato. C'è anche Tom, ma lui appare diverso: si perde in mille pensieri e a volte sente riaffiorare un Coccio, un frammento di vita passata.

Iridella è una fata. E cosa fa una fata quando si innamora di un Normal? Come ogni ragazza: qualunque cosa, pur di aiutarlo. Soprattutto se è proprio la famiglia della fata ad aver messo nei guai il ragazzo dei suoi sogni. Si dà il caso infatti che l'amato Gionata lavori per Amet, un'azienda che si occupa dei test di sicurezza per le automobili e che sta per fallire a causa degli infidi cugini di Iridella, i vampiri Blue e Velvet. Iridella dovrà sfoderare tutta la sua astuzia per aiutare la Amet a sconfiggere questo terribile avversario dai canini affilati.

Steven (Slim) Pickings is on the edge of a breakdown - but then, it always feels like Slim is teetering on the edge of something. The difference this time is that something’s caused Slim’s worries to come alive! He’s set loose a bunch of annoying, pesky, outrageously contagious creatures - and they’re infecting everyone they meet and massing to take over the town! To stop them, Slim will have to do more than just team up with his family and friends - he’ll have to face his fears, literally.

Floralie Laurel, freshly expelled from Mrs. Coffrey's School for Young Girls, works as a flower seller in an English village with her guardian brother, Tom, miles and miles away from their real home in France. Tom and Floralie are drowning in debt, but fortunately, Grandmama arrives to save them. Unfortunately, Grandmama's idea of "saving" means sending Floralie to the Adelaide Laurel Orphanage for Unfortunate Children and shaping her into a proper lady - i.e., ridding her of imagination, daydreams, paintings, and poetry.

With help from his friends, Billy Smith - the unlikeliest of heroes - overthrew the corrupt General Sawtooth and claimed the Goblin Crown. But his perilous journey to save the goblin race has just begun. The powerful Hanorian Army is gathered at the gates of Kiranok, threatening to invade the goblin city and wipe out everyone within. So the inhabitants of Mother Mountain must draw on their deepest strengths for the battle to come....

The exciting third instalment in the White Ninja Saga. The town of Lanternwood is under attack. There's a tigon, a monster that is half dragon, half tiger, on the loose. Roxy is being hunted by a fire-breathing army, and her best friend, Cinnamon, has been kidnapped. It seems that everyone Roxy loves has been cursed, and it's up to her to save them. Somebody wants revenge. And when life couldn't be more dangerous, Roxy loses her powers and all seems lost.

Luna est un jeune elfe argenté qui a grandi au sein d'une meute de loups. Lorsque des guerrières drows déciment sa famille adoptive, elle se réfugie chez son mentor, le Marécageux, qui lui révèle les circonstances de sa naissance. Dans le but de retrouver sa mère, Luna entame un long périple qui la mènera à Rhasgarrok, la cité souterraine des elfes noirs.

Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me. Like everyone else in her town, River is obsessed with the Graces, attracted by their glamour and apparent ability to weave magic. But are they really what they seem? And are they more dangerous than they let on?

Charlie Lawson's only summer excitement in small-town Wisconsin came from kicking butt in video games, where he's the undisputed Total Turbo champ. Now it's time to go back to middle school, where nine long months of boredom await. But then Charlie stumbles onto something big happening inside the abandoned warehouse across the street from his house. Specifically, someone big. He befriends Bruce, a 20-foot-tall teenage giant whom Charlie must keep a secret.

He's going to a place he's never been before: home. Moon Two is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every 90 minutes. It's also the only home that 15-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known. Born and raised on Moon Two, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth.

Debe de haber millones de chicos como yo. Me volvía loco una compañera del instituto, tenía mis diferencias con mi padre y, siendo sincero, los estudios no eran precisamente mi prioridad. Un escenario bastante típico para un adolescente. Sin embargo, algo increíble me enseñó que estaba equivocado, que después de todo yo sí era especial, de un modo que no se puede explicar sin comenzar por la noche en que conocí a dos niñas gemelas que cambiaron mi vida para siempre.

A story short-listed for the 1995 Beefeater Children's Novel Award, which tells of the impact a Romany child from the country has on a sophisticated urban household when she goes to stay with her very proper aunt Emma.

When Jerry falls asleep on the bus to school, he's incredibly hacked off to wake up and discover he's on another planet. The realisation that he's just been sold to a family of aliens by an exotic pet shop, does nothing to improve Jerry's mood. Harchi Jannan and his son, Chad, are thrilled with their unique new pet, but Rashila Jannan is so furious with her husband for buying it, she's ready to shed her tail tip.

For any normal teenage boy, having two and a half younger sisters would be enough to deal with. But Simwan Deavy's life isn't normal. His family is non-Ord - short for "non-Ordinary" - which means that at school, he and his sisters learn hexing and enchanting along with history and math. It also means they have a ghost for an uncle and a cat who talks. Still, everything is going well for Simwan - until a bottle of Truth is stolen from the local pharmacy.

A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan.