Animal Magic

Twelve-year-old Moll Pecksniff wakes one night in the middle of the forest, lured there by a recurring nightmare - the one with the drums and the rattles and the masks. The Dreamsnatcher is waiting. He has already taken her dreams and now he wants her life. Because Moll is more important than...

Moll Pecksniff and her friends are living as outlaws in a secret cave by the sea, desperate to stay hidden from the Shadowmasks. But further along the coast lies the Amulet of Truth, the only thing powerful enough to force the Shadowmasks back and contain their dark magic. So, together with...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a sexy, paranormal "rough-and-tumble adventure" (Library Journal) about a high-stakes romance between two shifters fighting for their lives. Cougar shifter Abby Carter always plays it safe. That's why she's an accountant--no excitement, no danger...

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a ""dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics"" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements...

“Winningly intense.” —Kirkus Reviews “A powerful novel of tremendous empathy and optimism.” —Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist “Exquisitely written and painfully real.” —Megan E. Freeman, award-winning author of Alone When a twelve-year-old...

Rex Dexter is cursed...with brains...and daring...and more than his fair share of devilish good looks. But also with an actual curse: dead animals keep showing up in his bedroom, wanting him to solve their murders. After successfully sleuthing a series of endangered animal assassinations, Rex is pretty sure he's home free, spiritually speaking. But that's when he finds a 2,000-pound narwhal in his beanbag chair. And this tough guy is dead. And super crabby about it.

Ciondolino è la storia di un bambino trasformato magicamente in formica e catapultato in un formicaio. Da qui inizia l'avventura, che porterà Gigino, soprannominato Ciondolino, alla scoperta del mondo delle formiche. Una favola educativa, avventurosa e divertente.

Detektiv mit Herz und Horn: Ein klarer Fall für Emmi und Einschwein! In Wichtelstadt treibt ein Dieb sein Unwesen. Er klaut die teuren Straßenlaternen, dank derer die fliegenden Fabelwesen nachts etwas sehen können. Papas Drache hat sogar einen Unfall in der plötzlichen Dunkelheit. Mama Brix soll den Fall lösen, schließlich ist sie Polizistin. Allerdings futtert Einschwein den einzigen Beweis auf: Ein Küchlein! Emmi ist stinksauer. Aber vielleicht können die beiden Mama doch noch helfen, den Dieb zu finden.

Twelve-year-old Acea Bishop was always the nerdy kid who would rather go to the library during recess to read about animals instead of playing basketball like the other boys. Now, after being kidnapped and waking up inside of an ancient kingdom strangely resembling a zoo, Acea is running from those same animals he used to love reading about.

Lillis Arbeit als Tierdolmetscherin im Zoo macht ihr unglaublichen Spaß. Mit ihrer Gabe, mit Tieren sprechen zu können, hilft sie vielen ihrer vierbeinigen Freunde und ist genau in ihrem Element. Aber seit die Bewohner der neuen Pinguin-Anlage eingezogen sind, geht es im Zoo drunter und drüber. Ein ganzes Gehege voller Problemkinder! Vor allem der kleine Brillenpinguin Yuki macht Lilli Sorgen: Er würde so gern fliegen - wie ein richtiger Vogel. Aber Pinguine können nun mal nicht fliegen!

Liliane Susewind ist furchtbar aufgeregt: Sie soll sich um das verwaiste Eisbärenjunge Milky kümmern! Ganz schön knifflig, denn Milky ist ein wahrer Wirbelwind. Am besten wäre es, der alte Eisbär im Zoo würde ihn adoptieren. Doch der ist wenig begeistert von dem kleinen Schreihals. Und dann gerät Milky in große Gefahr! Lilli und Jesahja müssen handeln.

Ever since Spencer Plain's parents disappeared, he's been staying in Bearhaven - a secret city where bears talk, go to school, develop secret technology, and plan missions to rescue others who need help. Spencer's been planning, too. He's in training as an operative with the Bear Guard so that he's ready to go help rescue his parents. They've been captured by Pam, who runs an illegal ring of rare animal trading and has been training an army of bears under his control.

Kiki's Delivery Service meets Cressida Cowell in this ""exciting and imaginative"" (Kirkus) middle grade fantasy about a non-magical girl who discovers she does, indeed, have magic—and she must choose between two warring witch covens or she'll explode! Willa lives in the Wild, in a city...

A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this “achingly poetic” (Kirkus Reviews) and deeply satisfying tale. Alys was seven the first time she saw the soul eaters. These soul eaters are twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly grew...

I'm marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school . . . Viola doesn't want to go to boarding school, but somehow she ends up at an all-girls school in South Bend, Indiana, far, far away from her home in Brooklyn, New York. Now Viola is stuck for a whole year in the sherbet-colored...

"Cion Cion Blu" è un contadino cinese che veste solo di blu e arancione; ha un gatto tutto blu e un cane tutto arancione. E un pesciolino, che si chiama Bluino. Una notte, la neve copre di fiocchi bianchi tutti i suoi alberi d'aranci: quanto buon gelato d'aranciata! Per venderlo al mercato Cion Cion Blu s'incammina...

Veteran astrologer Skye Alexander offers numerous ideas and inspiration for incorporating star power in rituals, celebrations, and everyday life. In addition to providing a historic overview of astrology's impact on architecture, the body, music, and language, Alexander thoroughly explains how to assess your birth chart and includes information on working with planetary cycles, transits, lunar energies, eclipses, and more.

Fans of Big Fish, Peter Pan, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world. Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa...

After discovering that the creatures from Cajun folklore actually exist, Feliciana is torn between hiding her Southern heritage and starting fresh at her new school—all while caring for an unexpected magical friend. Rachel M. Marsh’s debut novel is for fans of Tracey Baptiste’s The...

Yarrow never expected to find himself running from wolves in the dead of night. The hedgehog minstrel dreams only of fame, hearthside songs, and perfectly baked muffins. But as he travels Blueberry Forest with his friend Mel the owl and the foxling twins, seeking the next cozy inn, fate interrupts with a captive princess and her desperate plea for help. Mel insists they help Princess Fragaria. Yarrow protests – surely this calls for a real hero? Yet as the tyrant Mugwort's wolves close in, the reluctant hedgehog realizes his troupe is the princess’s only hope.