After a bump on the head in gym class, Nikki has a wild dream in which she, her BFF's Chloe and Zoey, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie all end up playing the roles of some familiar classic fairy tale characters. Of course the stories will all have a very special DORK DIARIES spin to them!
An original novel based on the hit television series, Reign.
Since Mary, Queen of Scotland was a child, the English have wanted her country and her crown. She is sent to France to wed its next king--to save herself and her people. It's a bond that should protect her, but there are forces that conspire...forces of darkness, forces of the heart. Mary's rule, and her life, has never been safe.
Find out what happens to Mary, Francis, Bash, and the rest of the French court after the season one finale.
Long may she reign.
Penguin presents Roald Dahl's Matilda, read by multi-award-winning actress Kate Winslet.
Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents.
Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers.
But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve . . .
Kate Winslet's award-winning and varied career has included standout roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Also a highly acclaimed voice artist, she received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen to the Storyteller.
Penguin presents Roald Dahl's classic Danny the Champion of the World, read with real warmth by the actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.
Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had - but Danny's dad has a very big secret.
This secret leads them both into the strangest adventure of their lives, and a daring plot that makes Danny the champion of the world.
Peter Serafinowicz is an award-winning English actor, writer, voice-artist, comedian and director. He has appeared in films such as Shaun of the Dead and Couples Retreat. As a voice artist his roles have ranged from Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace to Driver Dan in the CBeebies programme StoryTrain.
"A true leader does not need to be asked to do the right thing; he does it."
-Mrs. Dumphry
Eleven-year-old Jack's ordinary life is upended when he is whisked into a fantastical adventure filled with danger.
Jack learns that most people live in a shadow of the world, their vision blinded by invisible scales. But the Awakened experience the world as it truly is and are searching for the Child of Prophecy who will both save the world and destroy it. When Jack joins the battle, he must learn to trust his friends and face his fears if he is to make his life count.
Train your feet: Ignite your soul. Pre-teen shoe model Riley Mae laces up her flaming orange Sole Fire running shoes for another ad campaign in the third book of the Faith girlz! Good News Shoes series.Kenya, Africa is the perfect place for runners to train, with its high elevation and encouragement from members of the famous Kalenj in tribe. It's also a great hiding place for Riley and her Swift river friends from enemies back in the United States, but for how long? Adjusting to African culture is difficult, but by doing work she's not accustomed to and by spending time with the kids and the Christian women in the village, Riley finds herself growing stronger physically, and praying expectantly for ways that God can use her to spread the Good News. Her prayers are answered in exciting and startling ways when Riley meets an orphaned girl seeking answers at a children's home in Nairobi, but also when an error in judgment causes her to stumble into a surprise meeting with the enemy.
RJ’s mouth is getting him into a lot of trouble. A rude comment at school earned him a detention. It’s time RJ starts using a social filter when he speaks. With help from his parents, he learns he doesn’t have to verbalize every thought that pops into his head. Read by the author.
Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses - an epic Caribbean adventure!On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus...When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can't believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives.As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the world's rarest horses depends on her.Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years.
The 39 Clues is unstoppable! The bestselling series returns with an adventure spanning four explosive books and a website that places readers right in the action.
Confidential until September 2014!
The "It" book you absolutely must pack in your beach bag-an addictively juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong.
- An EW Best Book of 2015 for the Pop Culture Fanatic in Your Life
"Readers who come for the dirt, real or imagined, won't be disappointed; there's plenty of gold in these True Hollywood hills." -Entertainment Weekly
Chosen as a Great Summer Read by:
- USA Today
- People Magazine
- Entertainment Weekly
- Good Housekeeping
- Cosmopolitan
- Vogue.com
- The Hollywood Reporter
- "[A] delicious beach read." -People Magazine
"A hilarious, tabloid-trashing gotcha novel." -Vanity Fair
"A juicy work of shocking betrayal."-Us Weekly
"I've had a million meetings in my acting career, and I had no idea that this would be the one that would change my life forever. I walked into the room, and there was Rob . . . in the flesh."
Actress Lizzie Pepper was America's Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold-a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren't enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood's "It" couple are over-and now Lizzie is going to tell her side of the story. Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin chronicles the tabloids' favorite marriage as Lizzie Pepper realizes that, when the curtain falls, her romance isn't what she and everyone else thought. From her lonely holidays in sumptuous villas to her husband's deep commitment to a disconcertingly repressive mind-body group, Lizzie reveals a side of fame that her fans never get to see. Full of twists and turns, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a breathless journey to the heights of Hollywood power and royalty and a life in the spotlight that is nearly impossible to escape.
From the Hardcover edition.
Sasquatch! That’s who Judy looks like in her school picture. Antarctica! That’s where Judy’s been sent three times in a single sour-ball week to chill out. Snotsicles! That’s what Judy says when she’s in a mood. Can Judy Moody’s mood get any worse? Of course it can. UNLESS…it’s Backwards Day! Time for Judy to turn that frown upside down, make lemonade out of lemons, and be nice to stinky little brothers. Can she do it? Can she stay in a good-not-bad mood for an entire day? One whole week? Gulp! She might make it, but only with oodles of itchy-twitchy finger knitting to help keep her mind off of the grumps: over under, over under, loop-de-loop-de-loop.
