An adventure story filled with suspense, mystery, and fantasy - for kids ages 9-12 and teens
Peter, an exceptionally clever junior high school kid, is pulled into an adventure where he and a few friends have to solve a series of very challenging riddles and puzzles. Peter's mind, which has an amazing talent for problem-solving, is needed to save the world.
This adventure sure is a big change from what Peter typically deals with in life: He gets called geek and nerd by everyone in the cool group. He tries to hide his love for learning, in a hope to stick out a little less. He fantasizes about a girl who is out of his league.
Peter and his friends must solve every confusing riddle and challenging puzzle they face. If they can’t, a powerful supernatural being will cause immense destruction and devastation...
Buildings were weaving in and out. The street pitched like a stormy sea. Bricks were raining down all around him. The ground shook with such violence that Jacob thought the world had come to an end. In award-winning author Gail Langer Karwoski’s stirring fictional account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, young listeners will relive the drama of the actual event and its devastating aftermath through the courageous survival of a young boy.
“Karwoski’s novel conveys very capably the fear, disorientation, and shock of living through a major disaster and coping with the aftermath…The protagonist is appealingly unvarnished, alternately sweet and angry, open-eyed both to the destruction at large and the smaller scale unhappiness at home since his mother’s death…Quake! combines disaster and family longing for a sturdily constructed and affecting look at the past.”--School Library Journal
Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard there, too-the school and library are closed. When Pop gets work near Canada, he has to leave the children on the farm alone. For two months! But Rachel's the oldest, and she'll make sure they're all right. Somehow.
Equal parts adventure & STEM, this thrilling middle-grade nonfiction book chronicles two groundbreaking voyages to the South Pole.
In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, another intrepid explorer, Roald Amundsen, set his sights on the same goal. Suddenly two teams were vying to be the first to make history-what was to be an expedition had become a perilous race.In 2018, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task: the first solo crossing of treacherous Antarctica. But little did he know that athlete Colin O'Brady was training for the same trek-and he was determined to beat Louis to the finish line. For fans of Michael Tougias' The Finest Hours and Deborah Heiligman's Torpedoed, this gripping account of two history-making moments of exploration and competition is perfect for budding scientists, survivalists, and thrill seekers.
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, IrEne Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity.
This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and voted to disqualify all women from membership.
Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atom bomb, yet her achievement was left unrecognized by the Nobel committee in favor of that of her male colleague.
Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller. Photographs and sidebars illuminate and clarify the science in the book.
Dear old Raggedy Ann! The beloved rag doll who comes to life and along with the other toys in the nursery has a series of exciting adventures. Generations of children have listened round eyed and open mouthed as Raggedy Ann flies away on a kite, rescues the family dog from the pound, helps the hens hatch out chicks and lands up in the paint pot.
Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) was an American artist, cartoonist and children's author. One day his daughter Marcella found a dusty, faceless rag doll in the attic. Gruelle drew a face on the doll and named her Raggedy Ann. Marcella played with the doll so much, Gruelle thought other children would like the doll too. He started a company making the Raggedy Ann dolls and wrote a series of popular books for children based on the adventures of Marcella and Raggedy Ann which became timeless classics for many generations.
The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing Halt's only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky.
När man är en barnhemspojke med rakt hår som ingen vill ha, då kan man nästan lika gärna vara död, anser Rasmus. Men så får han en lysande idé. Man kan ge sig av från barnhemmet, rymma, gå ut i världen och ta reda på någon som vill ha en. Om de inte har någon annan att välja på, så måste de ju ta en, tror Rasmus. Precis så som Rasmus hade tänkt blir det inte. Han träffar i alla fall Paradis Oskar, som kallar sig Guds rätte gök och går på luffen han också. Och det går rätt bra ändå. Det händer så mycket när man går på luffen …
Allt vad det lilla Västanvik rymmer av äventyrlighet finns på Lusknäckarmalmen, stadens urgamla marknadsplats. Hit kommer Rasmus och Pontus en onsdagskväll för att se den världsberömde svärdslukaren Alfredo. Av misstag råkar de få höra om planerna på en silverstöld som ska ske i småstaden där de bor. När så Toker, som fått stanna hemma, tröttnat på det och kommer skumpande på sina korta små ben rakt in i händelsernas centrum börjar äventyret på allvar.
Salaseura Apassit kosmisten arvoitusten edessä
Halleyn komeetta uhkaa maapalloa. Helsingin yötaivaalla näkyy myös outoja valoja sekä räiskyviä punaisia salamoita, ja Bulevardin tienoilla liikkuu väkivahva nelikätinen rautamies. Kun insinööri Kallander katoaa koirineen ja verstaineen, poliisi on ihmeissään ja Apassit tarttuvat toimeen. Keitä ovat salaperäiset naamiomiehet? Miten juttuun liittyy amerikansuomalainen miljonääri tai Kallanderin susikoira Luna? Tuleeko maailmanloppu?
Apassit on jännittävä lasten etsiväsarja, jossa ratkotaan salaperäisiä tapauksia noin vuonna 1910. Apasseihin kuuluvat Heikki, Otto, Erik ja Samuli sekä Heikin kaksossisaret Elli ja Nelli. Kirjasarjan historialliset puitteet tempaavat kaikenikäiset kuuntelijat jännittävään seikkailuun menneeseen maailmaan.
Tapani Bagge on huumorilla höystetyn jännityksen ja vauhdikkaiden tarinankäänteiden mestari. Tämä yhden miehen tarinatehdas tuottaa parhaimmillaan useamman kirjan vuodessa. Monipuoliseen ja palkittuun tuotantoon lukeutuu niin lasten kuin aikuisten romaaneja, kuunnelmia, näytelmiä sekä tv- ja elokuvakäsikirjoituksia.
An adventure story series filled with suspense, mystery, and fantasy - for kids ages 9-12 and teens
Two years have passed since Peter and his friends went up against Zoltan—a supernatural being—in a battle of minds and wits, with the fate of the Earth on the line.
Life is great for Peter now: He and Nicola are still dating. He’s about to start high school, where he will be taking advanced science and math classes.
But then, out of nowhere, something happens… Something confusing and terrifying, which has the potential to cause immeasurable destruction. Is Zoltan angry again? Is Peter not living up to his promise? Or… is something else going on?
So once again, Peter and his friends’ problem-solving skills are needed. But this time, what they are faced with is way more puzzling, and the stakes are much, much higher.
