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This searing and inspiring prequel to ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is the story of Cassie Logan's grandfather. Paul-Edward is the son of a white father and a half-black, half-Indian mother. His father raises him almost as if he were white, but when it counts, he's treated as a black man with...

Uno dei capolavori della letteratura americana, che riesce a coniugare il gusto per l'avventura a un'esilarante (e nostalgica) vena umoristica...

David, Jonas und Emma sind in ihrem Zauberbuch gefangen und wissen nicht, wie sie in die wirkliche Welt der Gegenwart zurückkehren können. Das Buch hat sie in die Zeit des Wilden Westens katapultiert, wo sie Bekanntschaft mit der gefürchteten Belle Starr machen. Die Banditenkönigin raubt Banken aus, überfällt Postkutschen und schießt schneller als ihr Schatten. Aber stimmt das alles wirklich oder ist Belle Starr in Wirklichkeit eine ganz normale Frau? Und wenn man die Wahl hat zwischen Wahrheit und Legende, wofür entscheidet man sich dann?

"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile Author's note read by the author. From the author of Nowhere Boy—called “a resistance novel for our...

“Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book,” -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony “Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you’ve ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you.” -Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times...

It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate becomes entwined with that of settlers, who bring irreversible change to the grassland, setting the stage for environmental disaster. Bought and sold several times, Paint finally finds a home with English pioneers on the Canadian Prairie.

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged papers and her fair features, Chaya becomes a courier and travels between the Jewish ghettos of Poland, smuggling food, papers, and even people. Soon Chaya joins a resistance cell that runs raids on the Nazis' supplies. But after a mission goes terribly wrong, Chaya's network shatters.

It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing from a demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to sea far from the forest and his pack. The ocean, too, teems with danger: sea wolves, sharks and hunters of the deep, and the demon is gaining ground. Torak and Renn must race to save their pack-brother, battling the harsh icy waves and merciless torrents. If they can't find Wolf in time, the bond between them will be severed forever....

Geschichte: Wer mit Kindern eine längere Fahrt vor sich hat, der kennt sie, die berühmte Frage: Papa oder Mama, wann sind wir da? Meistens nerven die Sprösslinge mit dieser Frage schon nach den ersten Kilometern und stellen sie in regelmäßigen Abständen bis zum Fahrtziel garantiert immer wieder. Wenn aber noch etliche Kilometer vor ihnen liegen, dann ist guter Rat meistens teuer, gilt es doch, die Kinder bis zur ersehnten Ankunft zu beschäftigen. Genau zu diesem Zweck gibt es die "Hörgeschichten". Die sind manchmal lustig, manchmal spannend, aber immer informativ.

The first Magic Tree House Super Edition—and Jack and Annie’s most dangerous mission ever in the scariest time the world has ever known—World War II. With a longer story and additional facts and photographs, this is a thrilling adventure no reader will want to miss! When the magic...

Eigentlich wollten die Jolley-Rogers, die verrückteste Piratenfamilie der Welt, nur einen ruhigen Tag am Strand verbringen. Doch dann entdecken sie die geheimnisvolle Grotte am Kap Hexenschädel. Einer nach dem anderen will die Höhle durchsuchen - und kehrt nicht mehr zurück, denn sie ist mit einem Fluch belegt. Zum Glück erfährt Matilda, eine Freundin der Piraten, im verschlafenen Ort Schnarch am Deich von ihrer Not und bricht auf, um sie zu befreien. Doch auch Matilda gerät in den Bann des Hexenzaubers, aber eine waschechte Landratte gibt nicht so schnell auf!

It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge, dark cedar tree! Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years... A classic time travel mystery from acclaimed author Penelope Farmer.

A surprising twist brings Amy and Dan back to New England for their first mission on U.S. soil since the beginning of the Clue hunt. But being close to home is anything but a comfort. The siblings have learned that there's a mole in the Cahill organization.... And the traitor is one of their closest confidantes. However, this betrayal is overshadowed when Amy and Dan make an even more devastating discovery: the truth about the Vespers' real plan. Burdened with this terrifying information, Amy and Dan are forced to ask an impossible question: Is it more important to save the hostages...or stop the Vespers?

After pulling some spectacular heists, Amy and Dan have become two of Interpol's most wanted criminals. So when Vesper One orders them to steal the world's largest diamond, they know they're facing life in prison...or worse. But with the Cahill hostages still in peril, Amy and Dan have no choice but to launch a mission that leads them to an ancient city full of dangerous secrets. With a Vesper mole sabotaging the Madrigals from inside, Amy and Dan have to fulfill their enemy's request before it's too late. Vesper One has developed a taste for killing Cahills, and Amy and Dan aren't going to wait to see who's next.

Amy and Dan have managed to rescue one of the Cahills kidnapped by the Vespers, but the remaining hostages are still in peril. Their search for the next ransom item leads Amy and Dan to Turkey and then to Italy where a visit to the site of an ancient disaster changes everything. The Vespers are far more dangerous than the siblings ever imagined and, even worse, it looks like they have an undercover mole posing as a Cahill. Amy and Dan have to face the biggest decision of their lives with nowhere to turn... and no one to trust.

Der kleine Paul war im Sommer mit seinen Eltern im Urlaub in Rom, und erst dachte er, das wird bestimmt schrecklich langweilig - bis er die unterirdischen Katakomben besichtigt und überall Totenschädel, Opferstätten und uralte Kanäle gesehen hat. Und Livia studiert Geschichte in Rom - wo sie in den Ferien Führungen für Touristen anbietet. Gemeinsam mit den beiden ist man in diesem Wissenshörspiel unterwegs durch die Stadt, die man auch "die ewige Stadt" nennt. Welchen Job hatte eigentlich genau ein Konsul? Warum war es im alten Rom besser, lieber kein Gladiator zu werden?

In early 20th-century Vienna, Annika is raised by Ellie and Sigrid, a cook and housemaid for a household of three professors. Abandoned when she was a baby, Annika dreams of the day her mother will come back to claim her. Then one day, it happens. A glamorous woman arrives and sweeps Annika away to a crumbling castle in Germany. But there is much more to this new woman than meets the eye - and none of it is good.

There was once a time, nearly four thousand years ago, when the tall towers of a city called Troy reached gleaming into the sky; when its proud king fought against an invading army in a desperate siege.

Nach dem tollkühnen Überfall, den Robin und seine Männer auf die mächtige Burg von Nottingham gewagt hatten, um das Lösegeld für ihren geliebten König Richard aufzutreiben, war die Geduld von Prinz John am Ende. So drückt es zumindest der Sheriff aus, der blutrünstige Lakaie des Prinzregenten und jüngeren Bruders von Richard Löwenherz. Im ganzen Land wird Jagd auf die Vogelfreien, Robins grüne Schar, gemacht. Aber andererseits schließen sich immer mehr Bauern und Handwerker den Freisassen an, denn sie alle sind der despotischen Herrschaft von Prinz John überdrüssig.

Erzählt wird die spannende Geschichte der beiden Kölner Kinder Katia und Aaron, die nach Palästina reisen. Sie begegnen dort sowohl den gegenwärtigen Problemen als auch der großen Vergangenheit...