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Best-selling and award-winning author Margaret Peterson Haddix delivered an instant classic when she launched her Missing series. Two books ago, a plane landed with no pilot and no adults—and a passenger load of 36 infants. Years later, teens were shocked when clues began to turn up about just what it meant to be one of “the missing.” Now young heroes Jonah and Katherine must help a girl return to the past amid a host of unexpected challenges.

Disguised as a peasant, Cecilia has been hiding for years from the evil people who killed her parents. Now the time has come to reclaim her title. There's just one problem. Princess Desmia - supposedly Cecilia's decoy - believes a different version of the story.

As Lindsay Scott basks in the glow of being TV’s most popular child star, she suddenly begins to hear everything that’s being said about her—all the time, and from every place on the globe. After her apparent nervous breakdown, Lindsay disappears from the public eye until—years later—a tabloid claims her father is holding her hostage.

One minute they’re there: laughing and having fun at the house next door. The next minute, the teens are gone. Like magic. Marin can’t believe her eyes. Who are they? Can anyone else see them? What makes them so happy? Marin is lonely in this new town of hers and eager to figure out more. Then she meets Charley, who reveals that he knows about them, too. He calls them the “Remarkables”. Charley warns her to stay away from the Remarkables - and him.

Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. She thinks everyone does, now that it’s 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles let her have any adventure she wants, with friends from all over the world. Then one day Zola finds a handwritten note in her Insta-Closet: If you want to see things as they really are, come find me. What if Zola’s wrong about everything—even the year?

For the past 12 years, adults called "Freds" have raised Rosi, her younger brother Bobo, and the other children of their town, saying it is too dangerous for them to stay with their parents - but now they are all being sent back. Since Rosi is the oldest, all the younger kids are looking to her with questions she doesn't have the answers to. She'd always trusted the Freds completely, but now she's not so sure. And their home is nothing like she'd expected, like nothing the Freds had prepared them for.

It's been barely a day since Edwy left Fredtown to be with his parents and, already, he is being sent away. He's smuggled off to boarding school in Refuge City, where he will be with his brother and sister, who don't even like him very much. The boarding school is nothing like the school that he knew, there's no one around looking up to him now, and he's still not allowed to ask questions! Alone and confused, Edwy seeks out other children brought back from Fredtown and soon discovers that Rosi and the others might be in danger.

Greystone-børnene er tilbage! Og der er absolut ikke færre dobbeltgængere, hemmelige døre og skjulte koder i denne hæsblæsende opfølger på Greystone 1 - De fremmede. En vaskeægte pageturner til mellemgruppen om alternative verdener, identitet, familiesammenhold og venskab. Forestil dig, at din mor forsvinder ind i en parallel verden gennem en hemmelig passage i kælderen. Ind i verden, hvor alt er en genspejling af vores verden, men hvor alt er forkert. Ondt. Velkommen til Greystone-børnenes virkelighed!

Det troede Greystone-børnene, de vidste. Chess har altid været beskyttende over for sine mindre søskende, Emma har altid elsket matematik, og Finn har altid bare gjort det, Finn er bedst til - at fjolle nuttet rundt og blive forkælet. De har altid været en lykkelig familie, de tre og deres mor. Men alt ændrer sig, da nyheden om tre kidnappede børn kommer frem. For de tre forsvundne børn har samme navne, samme alder og præcis samme fødselsdatoer som Greystone-børnene. Det bizare tilfælde får dem til at spekulere på, hvem de fremmede egentlig er?

There’s nothing better than taking your timid little cousin Thad to one of those sweet haunted houses the 4-H Club decorates for Halloween. Except, of course, if the house turns out to actually be haunted. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

Den store Greystone-finale - en pageturner med masser af teamwork, action og dobbeltgængere! Selvom de har fået deres mødre tilbage fra den onde parallelverden, tror de tre Greystone-børn og deres ven Natalie ikke på, at faren for alvor er drevet over. Og da mønter med mystiske koder begynder at dukke op rundt omkring, opdager børnene da også, at mønterne er budbringere fra den anden verden, hvorfra deres venner beder desperat om hjælp.

Since the Enforcers raided Refuge City, Rosi, Edwy, and the others are captured and forced to work as slave labor on an alien planet, digging up strange pearls. Weak and hungry, none of them is certain he or she will make it out of this alive. But Edwy's tech-savvy sister, Kiandra, has always been the one with all the answers, and so they turn to her. But Kiandra realizes she can't find her way out of this one on her own, and they all might need to rely on young Cana and her alien friend if they are going to survive.

Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends—even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn’t expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family’s new house. The photos show a boy who looks totally see-through. And in some, he’s in a coffin.