ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY MISSION: Someone issuspected of trying to murder young rock star Madison vee. You muststop her killer before her killer stops her. LOCATION: Los Angeles,CA. POTENTIAL VICTIMS: Aside from Ms. Vee, any number of crewmembers, fans, and friends. SUSPECTS: Her agent, jealousrelatives...Ms. Vee has no shortage of possible hidden enemiesready to pounce. Keep your ears to the ground. THIS MISSIONREQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ERASED INFIVE SECONDS.

Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master,Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Rangerwith his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepyaboring,evenauntil Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, isstruck down by a mysterious illness. Joined by his friend Alyss,Will is suddenly thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure,investigating fears of sorcery and trying to determine who is loyalto Lord Syron. As Will battles growing hysteria, traitors, and mostof all, time, Alyss is taken hostage, and Will is forced to make adesperate choice between his mission and his friend.

The Striga, former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom beyond the Unnamed Sea, has come to stay at the great tree. He has earned the trust of all by saving Bell, Soren's owlet, from Nyra, and he grows daily closer to the young king Coryn, with whom he seems to share a strange bond. The Striga senses the power of the ember hidden in Bubo's forge and draws it closer. As his power waxes, he accuses the Band of treason and produces flimsy evidence to support his abominable claim. And so the Band is exiled, strengthening the Striga's hold over Coryn. The Band seeks refuge in distant forests and enlists the help of old friends, but every action they take is construed as further treason, and agents of the Striga - former Guardians - hunt them mercilessly, until for safety sake the band itself must separate. They devise as system of messages and alarms and so communicate despite their isolation. Old friends, loyal family and allies help devise a plan to shake the hold the Striga has on Coryn and to free the young

多彩而有趣的书页让学习更加有动力； 快速评估测试可以保证孩子熟练掌握每个主题； 奖励贴纸可以鼓励孩子； 完成任务证书给予孩子成就感。 这册书运用语境解释单词的含义；扩展词汇量；用多样的语句表达单词的不同含义。

那个瘦骨嶙峋、叽叽喳喳的小女孩次来到爱德华王子岛，仿佛还是昨天的事。 可这会儿，漂亮的十六岁安妮正站在家乡的小学里当老师，声音里充满了偷练出来的庄严镇静。而骨子里，她其实与她的学生一样，生气勃勃，一刻也不想停下来。 那个被她怨恨却又暗恋着她的美少年吉尔伯特，现在又怎样了呢？ 少女安妮自埃文利学校毕业后，留在当地做了老师，度过了充满欢笑与苦痛的两载时光。她打定主意用爱与温暖感化学生，赢得了普遍的尊敬和赞誉。和黛安娜的友谊依然如花朵般绽放，安妮又结识了哈里森先生、保罗等可爱的伙伴，过着多姿多彩的生活。绿山墙还迎来了一对双胞胎，其中淘气的戴维令玛莉拉和安妮伤透脑筋，却也带来了无穷的乐趣。心中充满浪漫主义色彩的安妮，还促成了一桩美妙的婚姻——居住在回音蜗居的拉宾达小姐，在安妮的帮

Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they needwith these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions andfun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Everyactivity in each book is correlated to state standards.

No melting allowed! Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They've moved to a place called Sherpia. It's a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn can't believe she's stuck out in Nowheresville. No movie theaters. No malls. No nothing. Plus, there's something really odd about the village. At night there are strange howling noises. And in front of every house there's a snowman. A creepy snowman with a red scarf. A deep scar on his face. And a really evil smile. . . .

Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village to find that not only is his wife dead but war and revolution have changed many things. He, on the other hand, although older is not appreciably wiser and soon slips back into his idle habits. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells of conscientious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Orderly and strict in school, out of school his life is disorderly and his head full of fearful fantasies. He is in love with the beautiful Katrina but has a rival for her hand, a dashing young hero who, together with his prankster friends, plays on Ichabod's superstitions, notably with the story of a headless horseman who

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Kidnapped and taken to a frozen land after the fierce battlewith Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia ascaptives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue hisyoung apprentice, and he will do anything to keep his promisea evendefy his King. Expelled from the Rangers he has served so loyally,Halt is joined by Willas friend Horace as he travels towardSkandia. On their way, they are challenged again and again byfreelance knightsabut Horace knows a thing or two about combat.Soon his skills begin to attract the attention of knights andwarlords for miles around. But will he and

Shirley Temple sails from China to America with a heartfull of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America isindeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know anyEnglish, so it's hard to make friends. Then amiracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star ofthe Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson isproving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make adifference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball fieldand off, America becomes the land of opportunity.

Product De*ion Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not 5 owl kingdoms -- as has been thought since time immemorial -- but 6. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land. In a landscape of perpetual winter, they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

The Geronimo Stilton Academy: Comprehension Pawbooks have been developed to build on children's interest in the Geronimo Stilton series to develop their literacy skills through structured exercises. Designed to fuel children's interest in reading, this series engages children and makes the learning of English enjoyable.Each workbook contains-Authentic excerpts from the Geronimo Stilton series.-Structured practices to develop children's reading skills.-Variety of question types comprising whilst-reading questions, comprehension questions and graphics-based activities at different levels of difficulty to ensure thorough understanding of the text.-Fun activities at the end of each section that are related to the excerpts to engage and motivate students to read.1 For use with .

Grank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother's identity. It would give him away as Hrath's heir. Sent by an evil warlord, a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns to fly. Grank realizes that the same evil forces that killed Hrath are after Hoole, and know where he is. To keep him safe, Grank brings him to Beyond the Beyond, a strange land of fiery volcanoes in a barren, icy landscape.(more)

In the midst of war, Eglantine unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones (a group of evil owls). She is brainwashed by an owl sent by the Pure nes to infiltrate the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Her odd behavior eventually attracts attention, and Soren and his friends vow to find out what's wrong with Eglantine. They ultimately learn what happened and help her reverse the effects of the brainwashing. Kludd continues to battle against the Guardians of Ga'Hoole for control of their tree. In the end, Kludd and his forces are defeated. But his conflict with Soren is not yet over.

《老鼠记者系列》以老鼠为主人公讲述了一系列惊险刺激、扣人心弦而又妙趣横生的旅行历险故事。 《老鼠记者》系列曾获出版创意奖、安徒生奖、儿童电子书奖等多项殊荣，是全球狂销8600万册的优秀儿童文学桥梁书。 主人公杰罗尼摩经营着鼠城第1畅销报纸《鼠民公报》，他有着出版人的博学睿智，却因过分的原则性而显得古板憨厚，在表弟赖皮、永远充满激情的妹妹菲、聪明可爱的侄儿本杰明等的引领“煽动”下，老鼠记者杰罗尼摩一次又一次陷入或神秘或恐怖或疯狂的旅行探险中，而每次旅行都能让小读者学到许多有趣的科学文化知识。 新鼠城发生了一件奇怪的事情！ 城里的居民莫名其妙都生病了，呕吐、干呕，甚至身上长了很多肉瘤！ 种种迹象表明，这件事情和居民吃的奶酪脱不了干系，杰罗尼摩能否侦破此案？案件背后的真

The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy politician, an impressive orator, and a brave soldier. His victories in battle awarded him the support of the people, but flush from power, he named himself dictator for life. The good times, however, would not last. Illustrations.

In the first book in the Guardians... series, the reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually a training camp where the school's leader can groom young owls to help achieve her goal.