Deep in the heart of a big city ...
Melvin's lucky fluffy dice are missing. Without them, he can't drive his bus. How will his passengers get around town? Who need so much extra luck?
This sounds like a case for the High-Rise Private Eyes -- Case #006, to be exact, the case of the fidgety fox.
Because no mystery is too mysterious, no puzzle too puzzling, no crime too criminal, no trouble too troubling for ace detectives and very best friends Bunny Brown and Jack Jones.
The good news: Bobby survived her Undead school trip. Bad news: her best mate, Smitty, is missing. Bobby knows she's got to find him, even if it means risking it all and going out into the starving-zombie-infested wastelands again. Even if it means taking fellow survivors along for the ride. And even if the zombies are not the only ones who are chasing them this time.
In the centre of the freezing Lake Beluarum stands an inescapable asylum, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned. Rex knows his evil stepmother, Acantha, is behind his father's 'madness', but how can he prove it? Only the asylum holds the answers...
There's a new girl in class at Knights Haddon, and she isn't like anyone the other girls have ever met before. Janet is cool and confident, so Edie is thrilled when they become friends and when her friendship with Anastasia becomes rocky, Janet is there for her. But when mischief begins to unfold, Edie begins to think Janet may not be all she seems and suddenly events take a dangerous turn.
Venus's mother, Gail, has discovered that Venus has been leading a secret life as a stunt girl and is very angry about it. Gail makes Venus promise that she will concentrate on her school work and forget the stunt world. But Venus can't forget it: she lives in fear of her fellow stunt artist and arch-enemy, Franco. She keeps catching glimpses of him, and is sure that he is stalking her. But why? Slowly Franco puts his plan into action, and it's far worse than Venus could ever have imagined...
Twelve-year-old Flossie is no ordinary ghost — she's the caretaker of every soul in Highgate Cemetery. And during World War II, even the ghosts aren't safe.
Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London's Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, it's Flossie's job to ensure that all the souls buried in the cemetery stay at rest. Not an easy job for a young ghost, but a task made especially difficult by World War II: London is being attacked every night by enemy bombers, and even the dead are unsettled. When Flossie encounters the ghost of a German soldier carrying a mysterious object that seems to exist in both the living and spirit worlds, she becomes suspicious — what is the officer up to? Before long, Flossie uncovers a sinister plot that could destroy not only her cemetery, but also her beloved country. Can Flossie and her ghostly friends stop the soldier before it's too late? History collides with the supernatural in this exciting, ethereal mystery from Allison Rushby.
Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
Pas un enfant qui ne soit fasciné par les histoires d'horreur, qui leur permettent d'aborder les émotions intenses en restant dans le contrôle grâce à la métaphore. Cette sélection de contes classiques est conçue pour les aider à s'approprier les problématiques qu'ils ne manqueront pas de rencontrer tout en leur donnant les moyens de les aborder avec joie. Lus par Fabienne Prost, vous y trouverez le meilleur et le plus fascinant des contes de Grimm, Perraut et Andersen : Dame Trude, la sorcière ; Les trois cheveux d'or du diable ; Histoire de celui qui s'en alla apprendre la peur ; La Barbe-Bleue ; Le Crapaud ; Le Diable et sa grand'mère ; Le loup et les sept chevreaux ; Le petit chaperon rouge ; Le petit Poucet ; Le serpent blanc.
Cabin Creek is a small town with a lot of big secrets! The cousins discover a mysterious stranger sneaking into the local dump. When bikes, toasters, and other items disappear all over town, they begin to suspect he might be up to no good. But when these items show up again, fixed and freshly painted, Jeff, David, and Claire are confused. What kind of thief repairs and returns his stolen goods?
Cabin Creek is a small town with a lot of big secrets. Lost Island was off limits — until now. Jeff and David are going to the deserted island to search for clues — and hidden treasure. Town legend tells of a robber and a secret cave, but the brothers have to piece the truth together. With the help of their cousin, Claire, they’ll get to the bottom of the mystery, no matter what they have to dig up!
Cabin Creek is a small town with a lot of big secrets. It’s the middle of the night when Jeff spots someone dumping a large bundle into the lake. It’s too dark to identify anyone — or anything. But the cousins immediately suspect foul play, and plunge right into the mystery. Before they know it, the kids of Cabin Creek are in too deep. Everyone is a suspect — and the cousins are all in danger!
It's a new school year in Cabin Creek and the cousins have a new mystery. When Claire and David look out the art room window and see a girl's pale face, they suspect it's a ghost. Is their spooky old schoolhouse really a haunted house?
