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First Meetings is a collection of three novellas (plus the original "Ender's Game") that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin.

When four strange, and strangely talented, youngsters are brought to Winding Circle by master sorcerer Niko they find themselves drawn together in a Circle of Magic - a circle that binds them despite their differences.

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal - including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other....

December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man, the man called only the Giver, he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.

After six incredible books, John Marsden has written the final volume and a last adventure for Ellie, Lee, Homer, Fi, and Kevin. It may be the end of the series, but does it mean the end to Australia as we know it or the end of the war? Or both?

They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now its winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends.

Wenn Ritter Bredur dem baskarischen Prinzen Diego beim Festmahl nicht ein Bein gestellt hätte, wäre die Brautwerbung um Prinzessin Lisvana nur eine Formsache gewesen. So aber geraten Nordländer und Baskarier in einen zünftigen Streit, an dessen Ende die baskarischen Gäste die Prinzessin einfach entführen. Doch so verlockend der elegante Prinz und das süße Leben im mittelmeerischen Baskarien auch sind: Prinzessin Lisvana schmollt und verweigert die Heirat...

In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy—a clone of herself.

Klara blinzelt ungläubig durch die Glasscherbe. Das konnte doch nicht sein, sie sah ein Gesicht in der Jahnplatzuhr! Und die Uhr sprach zu ihr, sie bat sie um Hilfe! In der Stadt gab es noch mehr Gegenstände, die eine Seele hatten -- aber nun waren etliche von ihnen verschwunden! Kann Klara das Geheimnis des Elfenglases lösen?

"Hören sie, drehen sie um! Sie fahren in die falsche Richtung!"
Privatdetektiv Kant ermittelt weiterhin im Fall "Kassandras Kinder". Noch immer bekommen Leute mysteriöse Einladungen: Sie sollen durch das Erzählen einer Geschichte Unheil abwehren. Und Kant will bei dem nächsten Treffen dabei sein. Doch gerade das scheint jemand verhindern zu wollen. Doch wer profitiert von dem Unglück anderer?

Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the Moon closer to the Earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun?

Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between—floundering. But during the summer after 7th grade, Martin meets a boy who will change his life forever. Jimmy Harker appears one night with a deceptively simple question: Will you help?

Raised in a family of circus performers, Helena's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange and magical realm, one where anything can happen, her real life is stolen by a runaway from the other side. Helena must rescue the realm from chaos in order to win back her own not-so-ordinary life.

A Newbery Honor Book and a Book Sense 76 Selection, Enchantress from the Stars is a science-fiction classic. Three alien races meet on the small green world of Andrecia. The Imperial Exploration Corps wants to claim the planet for its own, but the Anthropological Service stands in the way. And when young Elana makes contact with native Georyn, a love story exploring the very depths of human emotion unfolds.

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he's 14 and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, misinformation, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart he's a lonely kid.

Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces: armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.

Molly Moon ist ein armes, von allen gehänseltes Waisenkind. Eines Tages entdeckt sie durch Zufall ein geheimnisvolles Hypnose-Lehrbuch. Schon bei der ersten Übung wird klar: Molly ist ein Naturtalent!

Eigentlich hatte sich Molly fest vorgenommen, ihre hypnotischen Fähigkeiten nicht mehr zu gebrauchen. Doch als sie von den Machenschaften des Medientycoons Primo Cell in Hollywood hört, wird ihr guter Vorsatz auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Eines Tages taucht ein seltsamer junger Mann in den Wäldern um Nottingham auf. Er nennt sich Kevin von Locksley und behauptet, der leibhaftige Halbbruder des legendären Robin Hood zu sein.