Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Macbeth, King of Scotland, 11th cent. -- Fiction. Young women -- Fiction. Witches -- Fiction. Revenge -- Fiction. Scotland -- Fiction. Alternative histories (Fiction) Fantasy fiction.
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
"Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade -- he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl's shirt off. It'snot going too well at first, but when he meets a group of bohemian outcasts, things start to change...."
Graphic novel omnibus of Indiana Jones' adventures!
A bet to hack into Harvard Admissions and get a deadbeat high school student admitted to the esteemed university.
Resentful of having to go and live with their estranged father after the death of their mother, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to rescue him involve them in an extremely dangerous international plot to control the world's oil.
"This volume collects issues one through four of the Dark Horse comic-book series, Hellboy : seed of destruction, and stories from San Diego Comic-Con comics #2 and the Comics buyer's guide."--T.p.
Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion of Wuthering Heights as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They fall in love but cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart.
After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
Billionaire Tony Stark is kidnapped in a foreign land and forced to help his enemies, will these days as Iron Man be his last?
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
In her first year at a suburban New Jersy high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
Gossip columnist and single New York City girl Mellives lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's bored with her love life. But things get interesting fast when the old lady next door is nearly murdered. Mel starts paying closer attention to her neighbors--what exactly is going on with the cute boy next door? Has Mel found the love of her life--or a killer?
A tree that tosses charmed apples, the herbs and flowers that have mysterious qualities growing in the same garden, an enchanted family of sisters and daughters and aunts and grandmothers, a prodigal sister returning home after running away from her abusive boyfriend, and a handsome new neighbour next door ferociously attracted to the other sister -- a recipe for a magical tale (think Practical Magic)
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
Alan Mendelsohn, the boy from Mars -- Slaves of Spiegel -- The Snarkout boys and the avocado of death -- The last guru -- Young adult novel.
Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince.
Life skills -- Humor. American wit and humor. Simpsons (Television program) Guide to life.
When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, fifteen-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion to Nell Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
When fifteen-year-old Mason Quayle finds out that their town of Darlington is about to be attacked by orcs, goblins, ogres, and trolls, he goes in search of some heroes to save the day.
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. Read by Michael Welch.
Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.
When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
Anna/Anastasia -- the new girl in town. Goth, slightly spooky, with a hobby for writing obituaries and a penchant for odd books, houdini tricks, mysteries, tidbits of information, and postcards -- and she hooks up with the most normal boy in school -- because he obviously needs some excitement in his life -- and unlikely though it may seem, they make a happy couple -- mix CDs, ghost stories, riddles.... Until a week before Valentine's Day she disappears.
Two brothers who have grown so far apart are thrown together for a surprise trip to Italy -- sponsored by their parents. Each brother is so sure that the other brother misunderstands everything about him, and they grow resentful yet wishful -- wanting to reconnect, but sure it can't be done. Elijah enjoys the freeness of the journey -- exploring the cities without destination, watching the people and making new friends. David likes plans and schedules, knowing where he's going and getting there. When Elijah meets and befriends Julia, and then Julia takes a chance on David, truth about the brothers' relationship begins to trickle forth.
Raleigh lost her soul -- a cat stole it, she thinks. But maybe not. Eighteen and graduated, confused and unsure, she's on a road trip through California with three classmates she hardly even knows...
After her FBI partner is murdered, after her superhero uncle is killed, after she is compelled to leave the job she loved, and after her mentor is jailed, Angela del Toro feels lost -- but she is still determined to bring law and order to her new neighbourhood. When she mysteriously receives the mystical amulets that made her uncle the powerful White Tiger, she discovers that she has new strengths and prowess.
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
A few generations after much of the earth has been destroy, Roan and his sister are the only survivors of an attack on their peaceful village. His sister is taken, and Roan is left on his own to discover why the two of them are so important to The City and to other gatherings of people outside The City. What he finds out on his quest -- his abilities to travel into the Dreamworld, strange creatures that inhabit the world outside his village, children being taken from their parents to be sold for parts, and so much more -- leaves him with more questions and responsibilities, and turns him into a guy with a mission.
In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world.
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
A retelling of Sleeping Beauty, this story is a time-traveling fantasy of a young Jewish man (Ivan) who returns to his Russian homeland to do research for a paper he's writing and rediscovers a clearing in the woods -- with a circular pit and a woman asleep on a pedestal and a giant bear guarding over it.
Today -- or tomorrow -- the United States, sparked by the assassination of the president and vice-president, erupts into civil war.
In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.
When Death Jr (DJ) and his friends wind up at a museum for the supernatural and Pandora opens a box hidden away in storage, they let loose the demon Moloch -- who just happens to be DJ's uncle. When Moloch starts giving DJ the attention he's always wanted, Death gets imprisoned and the world goes completely awry with spirits rebelling and corpses dragging. It's up to DJ and his friends to rescue his father -- using every bit of cunning reaping they can!
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