Tuck Everlasting 内容简介 Doomed to or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune." 作者简介 A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt is the award-winning author of the modern classic "Tuck Everlasting," "The Eyes of the Amaryllis," "Kneeknock Rise" and many other brilliantly original books for young people. She began her career in 1966 as the illustrator of "The Forty-ninth Magician," a collaboration with her husband. When her husband became a college president and no longer had time to collaborate, Babbitt tried her hand at writing. Her first novel, "The Search for Delicious," establish
娜拉的麻烦大了!她这学期的成绩单真是惨不忍睹:5科拿D,1科拿C。但是没人知道,娜拉肚子里藏了一个天大的秘密--她其实是个超级大天才。嘿嘿,她成绩会这么烂,其实是故意的。烂成绩,不仅可以让她躲开成为好学生的压力;烂成绩,还可以让她的好友史蒂芬开心。特别是当她看到对人超好、念书超认真的好友史蒂芬,只因为成绩不好,就对自己完全失去信心,认定自己是个无可救药的大笨蛋时,娜拉真的对这种用考试和分数衡量一个人的情况忍无可忍啦!带回一张烂成绩单,只是娜拉一连串行动计划的步…… 娜拉的计划能顺利完成吗?刺激、紧张、精采、悬疑、爆笑、感人…… Book De*ion SHHHHH Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She'smanaged to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring outthat she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it thatway
Milo和Jazz是两个小侦探,他们喜欢推理分析,酷爱解决日常生活中遇到的谜团。在闻名世界的私人侦探DashMarlowe的指导下,两个人追踪线索,排查嫌疑人,解决了一个又一个身边的案件,慢慢成长为经验丰富的侦探。 TheMilo JazzMysteries(《MJ小侦探》)每册都通过一个案件引入相关的推理技巧,包括观察、逻辑思考、找规律、比较信息等。故事紧凑,情节曲折,推理严谨,既有神秘感又有幽默感,能够吸引孩子沉浸其中,在享受有趣故事的同时锻炼逻辑思维,以及分析问题、解决问题的能力。 每个案件后都有精心设计的脑筋急转弯、逻辑谜题、迷你案件等,让孩子运用学到的侦探技巧举一反三,在解题中获得乐趣和成就感。 本册The?CaseoftheBuriedBones(《神秘的遗骸》)的推理技巧是 找联系 ,讲的是:Milo和Jazz住的小城要挖出75年前掩埋的 时间胶囊 ,可工人们找到的
When Artemis commits his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy, it seems that goodness has taken hold of the world's greatest teenage criminal mastermind. But the truth is much worse: Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies and most likely triggered in Artemis by his dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms include obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, multiple personality disorder and, in extreme cases, embarrassing professions of love to a certain feisty LEPrecon fairy. Unfortunately, Atlantis Complex has struck at the worst possible time. A deadly foe is intent on destroying the actual city of Atlantis. Can Artemis escape the confines of his mind——and the grips of a giant squid—in time to save the underwater metropolis and its fairy inhabitants? New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer delivers another knockout, fast-paced, and hilarious adventure in Artemis Fowl: The A
Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it isa plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: hisfather. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by afamiliar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. Now,instead of battling the fairies, Artemis must join forces with themif he wants to save one of the few people in the world heloves.
In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood'ssenior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigodsthat no regular human child is allowed to see. These highlyclassified archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilousadventures, a "Spotter's Guide to Monsters", a "Who's Who in GreekMythology", "Percy's Summer Camp Report" and much more. So, ifyou're armed with this book, you'll have everything you need toknow to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures havejust begun...
hunting is just 'plain fun .To the girl who lives next door,it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talkthem out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day theGreggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger onthem. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Fingertakes over. She really can't control it,and now it's turned theGreggs into birds!Before they know it, the Greggs are living in anest, and that's just the beginning of their problems
Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school’srunning team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced toface the hardest race of her life—the race against time.