Lou und Reid haben gleich mehrere Verfolger. Die gefährlichen Dames Blanches, die Vertreter des Königs von Belterra und die Chasseure sind allesamt hinter ihnen her. Zusammen mit ihren Freunden Ansel und Coco verstecken sie sich in den finsteren Wäldern. Doch um zu überleben, brauchen sie neue mächtige Verbündete. Während Lou verzweifelt versucht, die Menschen zu schützen, die sie liebt, steuert sie unweigerlich auf die dunkle Seite der Magie zu. Doch damit bringt sie Reid in Gefahr, den sie doch mehr liebt als alles andere.
Quill and his friends are excited about Game Day and want to practice. But Quill, a porcupine, does not do well. He pops the balloon, tears the sack, and becomes discouraged. On Game Day, Quill finally finds something he is good at-carrying the ribbons.
Mike Lupica presents the third book in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Game Changers series!
Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season, Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up.
Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben's known Justin for a while and they're friendly, but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is the team's best hitter, but his behavior on and off the field is erratic.
Ben discovers that Justin's parents are getting a divorce and Justin is thinking about quitting the team. Like good teammates do, Justin helps Ben deal with his hitting issues while Ben is there for his friend while his family is struggling.
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard in the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoe-in to win it all. But there is another new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster.
New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica scores a touchdown with his new middle grade sports series!
Ben McBain is every football team's dream player. He's a jack of all trades guy that can handle almost any position. When the game is on the line, Ben's number is the one being called for the final play. But Ben wants to be the starting quarterback and the one thing standing in his way is the coach's son.
Shawn O'Brien looks the part. He has been groomed by his father, a former professional quarterback. But despite his size and arm strength, Shawn is struggling.
Ben is torn between being a good teammate and going after his own dream. As Ben finds out, Shawn isn't the easiest person to help. And when Ben gets an unexpected opportunity, the entire game will change for the both of them.
Bestselling author Mike Lupica kicks off a winning new series about sports and friendship that will captivate listeners.
As the Travelin' Nine head to Chicago, the team is filled with hope and optimism. After a disappointing loss in Cincinnati at the start of their baseball tour, the heroes of the Spanish-American War bounced back in Louisville. Doc and Woody came through with timely fielding, Crazy Feet and Tales smacked clutch hits, and champion horses provided that extra kick, helping the barnstormers to their come-from-behind victory.
By the end of the thrilling contest, there was no doubt in the minds of Griffith, Ruby, and Graham that the baseball their Uncle Owen had given to them on the night of their father's funeral was magical.
Indeed, the mysteries surrounding their baseball, which their uncle had urged them to keep secret, were deepening. And as excited as they were by the barnstormers' win, the Payne siblings' fears and worries continued to grow. Uncle Owen's tattered, bloody letter had warned them about the Chancellor. What's more, they'd seen the Chancellor's men lurking at the Louisville game. Griffith and Ruby now realized that their adventure was about far more than raising money to pay off a family debt. But what exactly was it about?
After the Louisville match, Griffith confronted his mother. She denied that the Chancellor could be involved, but she promised to answer all of Griffith's questions on the train to Chicago...
The year is 1899, and the Travelin' Nine are crisscrossing the good ol' U.S. of A., raising money to pay off the Payne family's big-league debt!
As the team heads into the River City, Griffith is beginning to realize that there's more at risk than meets the eye, something beyond the need to raise money -- something involving the ball that could put his entire family in danger.
Ruby is eager to help solve the mystery of the ball and plans on keeping her eyes and ears wide open and writing everything down. She knows the answer is out there. All she has to do is see the things that others don't. And figure out what those things mean.
Then there's Graham, who usually only thinks about how to get more time on the baseball field. Even he's beginning to notice that there are strange and shady characters at just about every turn.
Finally there's the Chancellor, one of the wealthiest and greediest businessmen in the entire world. And it looks like he's got his eye on the ball!
Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when all three kids hold the ball, strange things begin to happen...
'Glaube nur an das, was du siehst.' Auf diesen
Leitsatz seines Vaters sollte Galileo Galilei sein Leben lang vertrauen.
Der 1564 in Pisa geborene Physiker, Erfinder und Astronom wird zunächst hoch verehrt. Er entwickelt ein Teleskop, mit dem er unermüdlich den Nachthimmel absucht und Dinge sieht, die vor ihm noch niemand gesehen hat. Doch Galileos neues Weltbild mit der Sonne als Mittelpunkt des Sternensystems ist der Kirche ein Dorn im Auge. Sie verbietet ihm seine Ansichten zu verbreiten. Das hält ihn jedoch nicht davon ab weiter zu forschen ...
Mit viel Feingefühl und beispielhaften Erklärungen beleuchtet Professor Dr. Jürgen Teichmann die Erfindungen Galileis und gibt faszinierende Einblicke in den damaligen Widerstreit zwischen der Weltsicht der Kirche und der Wissenschaft.
A romantic comedy that's "a good choice for fans of John Green" (Booklist) about high school, heartbreak, and having all the answers.What if the secrets of dating and love were revealed in one simple formula? That's the tantalizing proposition high school senior Shane Chambliss offers the hopeless and hapless guys who come to him for relationship advice. After the girl of his dreams breaks his heart, Shane devises a mysterious formula called the Galgorithm and establishes himself as the resident dating guru at Kingsview High School. But his attempts to master the art of romance go outrageously awry. As Shane tries to navigate the ensuing drama, he must follow his heart, abandon all the rules, and ignore his own advice in a quest for true love. What he discovers, no formula could ever predict...
Cosmoe was an adventure-seeking 13-year-old orphan back on Earth, until the strange night he was yanked into space. Now he's got all the adventure he craved and more aboard the Neon Wiener--part spaceship, part food truck--selling their trademarked dish of 'Galactic Hot Dogs'.
Cosmoe and his friends are serving up the wildly popular wieners at food competitions across the multiverse, until they run into some trouble. Princess Dagger, a half-evil, half-awesome princess manages to kidnap herself onto their ship and suddenly her all-evil mother is gunning for the Neon Wiener.
The friends travel the galaxy, driven by Cosmoe's oath to "fight space-jerks in all their many forms," visiting strange planets, battling alien monsters, dodging space pirates, and making the galaxy a better place--all while perfecting the recipe for the perfect hot dog!
Wanted: One amazing forever home for one amazing sixth grader.
'My name is Gaby, and I'm looking for a home where I can invite my best friend over and have a warm breakfast a couple of times a week. Having the newest cell phone or fancy clothes isn't important, but I'd like to have a cat that I can talk to when I'm home alone.'
Gaby Ramirez Howard loves volunteering at the local animal shelter. She plays with the kittens, helps to obedience train the dogs, and writes adoption advertisements so that the strays who live there can find their forever homes: places where they'll be loved and cared for, no matter what.
Gaby has been feeling like a bit of a stray herself, lately. Her mother has recently been deported to Honduras and Gaby is stuck living with her inattentive dad. She's confident that her mom will come home soon so that they can adopt Gaby's favorite shelter cat together. When the cat's original owners turn up at the shelter, however, Gaby worries that her plans for the perfect family are about to fall apart.
