Family Life Science

After being set adrift at sea, baby Mordred is found by fisherfolk who raise him as their own. One day, a beautiful, magical lady appears to carry him back to his birth-mother's cold castle. There, alone but for his faithful dog, he comes of age and learns the horrible truth about his identity. Everyone knows Mordred as the dark, evil son who kills the noble King Arthur. But what would it be like to be born as Mordred, an unwanted child with a dreadful destiny?

Ella loves fairies. She reads books about fairies, makes fairy villages, and has a fairy door in her room. And she is sick and tired of everyone telling her that fairies aren’t real. She is determined to convince her parents, her friends, everyone at her school, and the whole world that fairies are real. When her little brother, Leo, finds a mysterious key hidden in an old barn, strange things begin to happen. The key might just unlock the secret of fairy magic and Ella might have her chance to prove to everyone that fairies are real. But someone else wants the key, too.

An einem Sonntagmorgen aufzuwachen und Geburtstag zu haben ist toll. Aber geradezu unglaublich ist es, plötzlich magische Kräfte zu besitzen - und außerdem zu entdecken, dass auch die drei älteren Schwestern zaubern können. Die vier schwören, ihre Kräfte geheim zu halten. Doch ihr Schwur wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Die beliebte Synchronsprecherin Marie Bierstedt zieht die Hörerinnen mit ihrer zauberhaften Stimme in den Bann.

Als die vier zauberhaften Schwestern ein geheimnisvolles Kästchen finden, werden ihre Sommerferien zu einem Abenteuer. Mit Hilfe der Pläne darin beginnen die Mädchen, die Magie von Cantrip Towers, ihrem Zuhause, zu erkunden. Doch auch Charles, ein Gast der Familie, interessiert sich sehr für den Inhalt des Kästchens. Gemeinsam können sich die Schwestern gegen ihren Widersacher behaupten. Das dritte Abenteuer der Erfolgsserie – zauberhaft gelesen von Marie Bierstedt.

Die vier zauberhaften Schwestern erobern die Kinoleinwand! Sky ist begeistert, als sie entdeckt, dass sie Dinge fliegen lassen kann. Ihre drei großen Schwestern Flame, Marina und Flora überrascht das nicht. Auch sie besitzen magische Kräfte, die sie nur für das Gute einsetzen wollen. Doch ihr Schwur wird auf die Probe gestellt, als die dunkle Zauberin Glenda einen Keil zwischen die Schwestern treibt und versucht, ihnen ihre geheimnisvolle Magie zu stehlen. Der zweite Band der Serie, der als Vorlage für den Film diente, erscheint jetzt als limitierte Sonderausgabe zum Kinostart.

Rainbow Grey may be only ten years old but the future of the whole world depends on her! It’s up to Ray to defeat Tornadia Twist—the greatest villain that ever lived. Ray has to figure out what her ultimate magical gift is and use this power to stop Tornadia before she destroys the Weatherlands and Earth. With epic adventures, magic galore and everything at stake, the battle for the skies is ON!

Way up in the highest, most private part of the forest, a small family of giant pandas made their home. This panda family loved to tell stories to each other. Sometimes the stories were true. Sometimes they weren't. That was part of the fun - guessing which stories were true and which weren't.

All My Neanderthals: An Introduction to a Series of Neanderthal Books features excerpts from the first two books in a fiction series: The Neanderthals Are Back and The New World Neanderthals. The book also includes a brief introduction to who the Neanderthals are, how and where they lived, and why they suddenly went extinct about 35,000 years ago after living successfully for over 200,000 years.

George and Gracie begin their adventure in Dover, Delaware 1776. The kids are surprised to discover that one of them changes into an animal every time they travel, and this time Gracie is a horse. All the twins want to do is return a pair of antique school desks and search for their parents. But instead they find themselves in the middle of the American Revolution and end up helping Caesar Rodney make his famous ride into Philadelphia to vote “yes” for the Declaration of Independence. Crowe lands in Delaware, too, and he plans to take the time machine - with George and Gracie inside!

Which president had feet bigger than his ego? Which barked like a seal? Which joked about dating mummies? Kathleen Krull uses fun and quirky facts to bring to light the human side of the 42 U.S. presidents in this "deliciously gossipy" biography.

Eleven-year-old Shelley only leaves her bedroom for two minutes, but when she gets back, there's a real, true-life, lavender-eyed baby on her bed. It's far too noisy, smelly and heavy to be a ghost baby - so whose is it? It can't be her mum's - Shelley would have noticed - but it's not like she's around for Shelley to ask, anyway. She's too busy trying to get her horrible ex-boyfriend Scott ('the Toadstool') back, who Shelley definitely does NOT like as much as her mum does. But someone's got to look after the baby, and give her a name.

Courtney is a worrier - she's worried about everything, from her mum and dad's constant fights, to her Gran being ill, to the fact that her best friend, Lois, suddenly seems to be more interested in growing up and hanging out with mean girl Bex than with her. But then one day, during a particularly bad argument kicked off by her dad's discovery of a pig in their lounge (don't ask...), Courtney begins to feel a bit funny...a bit woozy...a bit like a dream is coming on - and then when she wakes up everything is better!

Princess Lillian, an adventurous modern-day princess, faces many changes when her father becomes king. An ancient spell cast centuries before by a set of grand wizards has left Princess Lillian with a riddle and destiny of monumental proportions. As a young princess, her life was always planned by others. However, now she must embark on a journey where all of her choices and their consequences will be her responsibility. The outcome of her decisions could make her life even more complicated.

Princess Celeste is bored to tears, and her brothers, Prince Jude and Prince Torrin, aren't doing much better. In a palace where all they have to look forward to are endless games of croquet and barley-water soup for supper, they don't have much by way of excitement. Until the one night Torrin sees a light in a forgotten tower of the palace, and they meet a wonderful and mysterious aunt who unlocks a brand-new world of adventure they will never forget.

When old-world dangers threaten a race of fruit bat hybrids, where can they run to? New York City, of course! And that's where we meet the Livingstone kids - Lexie, Hudson, and Maddy - trying to blend their "vampireness" with the regular people of the city. Unfortunately, their vampire traits keep complicating things. Lexie's super speed, amazing strength, and poetry-quoting habit embarrass her in front of classmates - and her secret crush. Hudson can fly and is determined to save the planet, but he doesn't quite fit in.

Evoking the classic fantasy adventures of Joan Aiken and Eva Ibbotson, this darkly delightful new novel from New York Times best-selling author Catherine Fisher glimmers with winter magic. Orphan Seren Rhys is on her way to a new life at the remote country mansion of Plas-y Fran when she is given a package by a stranger late at night in an empty train station. The package contains a crotchety, mechanical talking crow, which Seren reluctantly brings to her new home.

There is no higher praise we can give people than to say they have good character. But what does this mean, really? What makes this quality so essential to achieving personal success and fulfillment? More importantly, how can we build our own character and live more satisfying lives? Reflecting society's diversity, the contributors to this unique collection of essays speak from various cultural and professional backgrounds to share their observations on living with integrity, honesty, and compassion.

Rosa è la perla della famiglia Masaniello: sensibile e intelligentissima quanto i suoi genitori e il fratello sono affettuosamente rozzi e scombinati. L’arrivo di una nuova maestra, piena di entusiasmo e di dolcezza, i dispetti di un compagno invidioso e l’ingresso in famiglia di un cagnolino sono gli episodi attorno ai quali si snoda la storia, che annovera fra i suoi protagonisti anche un folletto dispettoso ma dai grandi poteri magici.

The first installment of a series of tales, from a family deep in the forest on a quest to restore balance. Full of excitement and nail-biting action, this story follows the Tinkerberry family on their adventures through good and evil encounters with fairies, pixies, witches, and many more magical creatures.

Welcome to volume III of my memoirs—with me, Holly Hopkinson, still in the middle of flipping nowhere, and still on the brink of MULTIPLE CATASTROPHES, like my parents announcing that we might be moving STATESIDE. Good thing my sister is still into organising protests, thank you very much. PLUS Mum is about to lose what little money we have left on a vegetable shop, there's been a biscuit-fight fiasco in the village, and a family secret I uncovered means my suitcase is packed, my goodbyes are prepared—life is cruel at 12.