Griffin Bing is on his way to a million dollars... until a mean collector named S. Wendell Palomino (a.k.a.Swindle) tricks him out of a rare Babe Ruth baseball card. Now Griffin must put together a team of friends (and one or two enemies) to get it back. There are many things standing in their way - a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and the fact tha…
According to a middleschoolsurvival.com quiz, Jenny McAfee has style. But will she stay stylish for long? Joyce Kilmer Middle School is holding a fund-raising carnival, and Jenny and her rival Addie make a bet that each girl will raise more money than the other. The loser will have to wear her pajamas to school! The competition gets even hotter with the arrival of a cool new girl. Will she joi…
Jenny McAfee knows she's honest, at least according to a middleschoolsurvival.com quiz. But how truthful are her friends? It's the annual statewide history test challenge, and Joyce Kilmer Middle School has never had a finalist - until now! This year, there are two finalists, and they're both Jenny's friends. But one finalist isn't known for finishing at the top of the class, and the Pops star…
For more than thirty years - half his life - da Vinci was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest: how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and - most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect h…
When Piper finds the girl, she doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she's from the Dragonfly Territories and that she's protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a yea…
It's 1953, and eleven-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that simple. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the poll. To make matters worse, her favourite uncle is living in a car. Her nonny cries every time her father's name is mentioned. And the two sides of her family aren't speaki…
When Ka, the time-travelling cat, vanishes, she leaves a word on Topher's computer: TENOCHTITLAN Topher is horrified. That was the home of the bloodthirsty Aztecs! Can he save her from terrible danger? Can he stop the Aztecs sacrificing his new friend, Patti? Can he escape before the ruthless Spanosh conquistadors destroy Tenochtitlan? In this fast-moving adventure- Topher meets Montezuma…
Ka, the time-travelling cat, has vanished again, leaving a clue, a Roman word. on Topher's computer - Ca;;LLeva At first Topher isn't worried. Surely she's safe among the cat-loving Romans? But when he follows her to Roman Britain, they're both soon embroiled in conflict. As oppressed Britons fight the Romans, Topher faces a desperate choice - to help his British brother or his Romans.
Enter a world of magic and mystery, featuring a host of dragons, polar bears and other mythical beings in Chris d'Lacey's The Last Dragon Chronicles. Explore the breathtaking universe of David Rain as you discover the secrets behind the stories and the facts behind the fiction. Meet the weird and the wonderful, the frightening and the fantastic - if you dare to step into the Dragons' Den.
Chloe's made it into the top talent academy Rockley Park, her first step on the road to success as a pop singer. She's desperate to perform in the school's Rising Star concert - she's heard that talent scouts often turn up from the big record companies - but she's got one problem... she can't find her voice! Chloe's friends rally and try to help get the power back in her voice, but time is runn…