Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.

"Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy"--

This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...

Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering.

After Cameron's latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoor program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness of bays and

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Publisher Annotation: When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read....

When Mr. Smith and his sixth-grade Military Club discover they have been thrust into the middle of a zombie apocalypse during a field trip, things get a little crazy. Fighting zombies isn't supposed to be part of the itinerary, but it can't be helped if they want to survive. Now these kids just want to find their way back to their families, but will anybody be home? And if they are, will they still be human?

The year is 950 AD and the story starts in the town of Birka on an island in the great lake which covers a vast area inland of what is today Stockholm. It was a wealthy town at the centre of an international trading network, where merchants from as far afield as Turkey, Russia, and Ireland met to buy, sell and barter. The wealth of the island also attracted unwelcome visitors and frequently the Birka warriors had to defend their homes and families...

Broken, battered, and lost in a sea of uncertainty. Zelia survived, they had won, but she didn't feel like she had won. The tortured souls of her past, of those lost, haunt her more now than ever as the threat of the elder wizards grows ever nearer. A dragon rules under the Dwarves' mountain, but all is not as it seems. The dragon bares a warning, a gift, and a plea that leaves her more questions than answers. When the elder wizards of The Guild...

Journey with Bernie and Babs on a self-healing visualization. Bang those baddies on the head and send them to waste disposal. Bernie and Babs take on the virus with magic hammers and some serious hi-tech know-how. Adventure awaits in this charming and useful book that gives you a visual that can be used to imagine your own healing. See you in the cranial control center for bug and bot deployment.

A family of dragons who were, ridiculed by their neighbors for not fitting in are, put to the test after a disastrous event. An avalanche buries the residents of Purple Mountain and the clumsy dragon family must find their strength and courage to save everyone. Purple Mountain dragon community did not recognize the courage and strengths that this very, unique family had to offer. Although this family of dragons were clumsy and different, their kindness...