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
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2009年7月6日) 平装: 128页 读者对象: 10 - 12 岁 语种： 英语 商品尺寸: 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 141 g
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2009年7月6日) 平装: 128页 读者对象: 12 - 15 岁 语种： 英语 商品尺寸: 12.9 x 1 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 508 g
The evil pixie Opal Koboi has spent the last year in aself-induced coma, plotting her revenge on all those who foiled herattempt to destroy the LEPrecon fairy police. And Artemis Fowl isat the top of her list. After his last run-in withthe fairies, Artemis had his mind wiped of his memories of theworld belowground. But they have not forgotten about him. Onceagain, he must stop the human and fairy worlds from colliding –only this time, Artemis faces an enemy who may have finallyoutsmarted him.
Demons are beginning to materialize without warning on Earth.If humans were to capture one, all fairies would be exposed. Inorder to protect themselves, the fairies must decipher complicatedequations to determine where the next demon will appear. Not eventhe brilliant Foaly can make heads or tails of the formulas – buthe knows someone who can: Artemis Fowl. When a very confused demon imp appears in a Sicilian theater,Artemis is there to meet him. But he is not alone. Someone else hasunlocked the secrets of the fairy world…and she is only twelveyears old. Now, in a race against time, a newly-reformed ArtemisFowl will have to dip into his bag of dirty tricks if he is to savehis fairy friends from his latest nemesis, not to mention a powerhungry demon warlord who is poised to invade our dimension with hissavage army.
