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
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, everyone's favorite reluctantViking hero, has three months, five days and six hours to discoverAmerica, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents,and win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he doit?
Leroy Brown is back in the next six books in the Encyclopedia Brown series. As Idaville’s ten-year-old star detective, Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve some of the most baffling crimes. With ten confounding mysteries in each book, not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but readers are given all the clues as well and can chime in with their own solutions. Interactive and fun—it’s classic Encyclopedia Brown!
It's the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fullyillustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all thingsPercy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comescomplete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, allpackaged in a handy, "manual-size" POB with a crisp, magnetic flapenclosure.
Stranded on the exceptionally dangerous, and possibly haunted,Beach of the Broken Heart, Hiccup must face UG the Uglithug andcomplete the impossible task -- or die trying. Along the way, he'llhave to battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, and save Fishlegs frombeing fed to the Beast, all while being hunted down by an old enemywith a dark secret about the mysterious Lost Throne. With Toothlessby his side, and time to stage his rescue running out, what's aHero to do?
My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? Now featuring a brand-new chapter told by bully Julian, WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
Rosamond is visiting Scandinavia when she loses something.She wants Nate the Great to find it, even though he doesn’t knowwhat she lost, what country she lost it in, or when she lost it.And he’s thousands of miles away. But if Nate doesn’t take thecase, Rosamond plans to hire the King of Sweden. Nate doesn’t wantRosamond to bother the poor king. And he does want the chance tosolve his first-ever international case. Can Nate find whateverRosamond lost without leaving his neighborhood?
Greg好的朋友Rowley Jefferson抛弃了他,而在中学里找到新的朋友无疑是一件困难的事情。为了改变自己的命运,Greg决定做出一次改变,让命运为自己做出决定。到底掷骰子能够改变事情发展的方向吗?也或者Greg的命运只是向着另一个倒霉的故事发展?
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can’t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays (who wouldn’t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There’s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school . . . The plot thickens and the dangers facing Harry multiply in this third thrilling instalment from J.K. Rowling.
This eorking collection contains five greal stories from RoaldDahl Follow Mr Fox s fantastic plan.jump into Jamess incredibleadventare in the giant peach watch out for the amazing MagicFinger and more!
Artemis Fowl is going straight. As soon as he pulls off themost brilliant criminal feat of his career. At least, that’s the plan when he attempts to sell his C Cube, asupercomputer built from stolen fairy technology. When his effortsto broker a deal for the Cube with a powerful businessman goterribly wrong, his loyal bodyguard and friend Butler is mortallyinjured. The only thing that will save him is fairy magic, so onceagain he must contact his old rival, Holly Short. It’s going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis’s luckmay have just run out.