Travel School

After defeating the terrifying Necromuse and his mysterious orchestra, all Amelia Jones hopes for is a return to normal. But to her surprise, her class is sent to Europe for a month of study abroad. This seems like the perfect escape from all her problems, but not long after they land in Salzburg, Austria, danger haunts their steps. A street musician claims there is something wrong with Amelia’s magic, odd visions of the past appear around the city, and Amelia finds a strange message preserved in a museum—a message she fears was left by the Necromuse.

Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high-school students. While other kids are cruising around in their cars or playing ball, this trio, known as the Galileo Club, is experimenting with rocket fuels. Art's uncle, the nuclear physicist Dr. Donald Cargraves, offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to construct and crew a rocket that will take them to the moon. But there are those who don't share their dream and who will stop at nothing to keep their rocket grounded.

In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants—if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants.

Everyone loves a road trip! One of the best ways to pass time on your adventure and keep the whole family entertained is to spark a little competition. Divide into teams or take these questions one at a time, keep score, and turn your next road trip into an epic trivia match-up. You can play one chapter at a time and see who wins the most chapters, or you can go for the big win and see who wins the most questions total. It’s up to you! Have fun! Before you know it, you will be pulling into your destination, and this may turn out to be one of your favorite memories from the trip.

For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town left such an impression on him that 30 years later, Thad Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children.

As a lifelong academic, Amelia has always found labs and books to be far more understandable than people. So when she’s off to Paris to further her anatomy research, she thinks the hardest part will be training new guides for her best friend’s Traveling Finishing School. But it’s her fantasies for Matthew Dawson, her brother’s handsome best friend, that preoccupies and distracts. Can she navigate something this wrong with someone who feels this right? Matthew has known quirky, difficult Amelia for years, so protecting her will be easy. He doesn’t anticipate that her initial ...

Everyone loves a road trip! This high-school edition of Family Road Trip Trivia steps it up a notch with more complex questions that should challenge teens and adults alike. We keep the same competition going in this edition, so the same rules apply! Divide into teams or take these questions on one at a time, keep score, and turn your next road trip into an epic trivia match-up. You can play one chapter at a time, and see who wins the most chapters, or you can go for the big victory, and see who wins the most questions total. It's up to you!

Audacious Lady Lydia Leighton has one dream: to establish The Traveling Finishing School for Young Ladies, and live the life of adventure and freedom. To escape her mother's irksome matchmaking efforts, Lydia resorts to blackmailing her best friend's older brother, Viscount Hasting, into a fake engagement. She anticipated their unexpected alliance would free her to pursue her ambitions all while nimbly navigating London’s social whirl on Hasting’s arm. But their searing attraction, his prodigious charm, and well-timed support comes as a revelation. Lydia knows this is a ruse–she ...

Charlie hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916.

In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants — if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants. Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition.

Discover how to travel full-time as a single mom! How can you afford it? How will your child get an education? Do you know how unsafe it is to travel with just your children? The pushback single moms get when the topic of traveling comes up can be overwhelming! And it’s not just your well-meaning friends and family. Sometimes, it’s your own self-doubt that prevents you from pursuing your dreams of being a leaf in the wind and traveling the world to your heart’s content.

THE RIVALS is a lightly fictionalised account of the meeting and subsequent friendship of two schoolboys in the autumn of 1977. When Stephen and Adrian begin their new life at Rose Bank Comprehensive School in Burnton, Lancashire they instinctively stick together from the very first day. Both clever, capable and easily influenced boys, their rivalry begins right away and soon comes to permeate their lives in and out of school, involving things ranging from running and swimming to Subbuteo, singing and coin snatching. A light-hearted trip down memory lane, THE RIVALS takes the reader back to...

He’s forbidden fruit. My brother’s best friend—the one guy I’m not allowed to date, no matter what. But here’s the deal, it’s deeper than that. More complicated. Because we’ve been in love with each other since middle school. My brother has never seen what’s obvious to everyone else. Especially us. But now that my brother is marrying my best friend, why shouldn’t I finally get to be with the guy I want to be with? I should be able to tell the world I’m madly in love with the boy next door. But what if I’m wrong, and he doesn’t actually love me back? It would be his ...

Pike and Jack position for a little R & R in Arizona . . . But it's never that simple. ***** “The greatest time-travel series I’ve ever read - the only one I’ve ever read, but still!” The Pike Gillette Series: Book 1: Time Control Book 2: Time Lapse Book 3: Time Games Book 4: Time Line

The Magic Factory tells the story of 11-year-old Oliver Blue, a boy unloved by his hateful family. Oliver knows he is different, and senses that he holds powers that others do not. Obsessed with inventions, Oliver is determined to escape his horrible life and make his mark on the world. When Oliver is moved to yet another awful house he is put into in a new sixth grade, one even more terrifying than the last. He is bullied and excluded, and sees no way out. But when he stumbles across an abandoned invention factory, he wonders if his dreams might be about to come true.

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All Aboard The Lindbergh Line has its fair share of ups and downs—or more accurately take offs and landings. It’s the story of a young girl’s travels aboard Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, for short). TAT was the first commercial airline to carry passengers across the United States in 48 hours—by plane and train. TAT began its innovative cross-country transportation service in 1929 under the direction of Charles Lindbergh, who two years earlier made an historic flight from New York to Paris. TAT carried passengers between New York and California in airplanes by day and in ...

When Twiggy had ripped open the box and dug through the protective material, his hand landed on a strange round object... 
Twiggy Rattlesnake would never have believed that a regular boy like himself could ever alter time! With the discovery of a surprise box on the doorstep on his thirteenth birthday, Twiggy doesn’t know that his future is about to change–sending him on an adventure in time travel starting with The School of Time and Space, and opening his eyes to the truth of who he really is.

In the realm of fantasy, where imagination knows no bounds, comes a time travel romance series that captivates readers and transports them to a world filled with magic, adventure, and intrigue. Using the meticulous world-building established in the million selling The Ward stone Trilogy and introducing well-developed new characters, Devious Arcana invites readers into a sweeping young adult fantasy romance saga where heroism is tested and the line between good and evil often blurs. A warm, nostalgic wonder permeates every page, almost instantly making you feel at home. An ancient darkness ...

Stand Beside Amelia Earhart and Albert Einstein! Chant Baker’s time-traveling adventures propel him into the lives of two of history’s most brilliant minds—Amelia Earhart, the daring aviator, and Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics. Witnessing their achievements and struggles firsthand, Chant learns that history’s greatest legends are also some of its most human. But as his journeys through time grow more dangerous, his thoughts keep returning to Mary, the girl he met in Shakespeare’s time. Their budding romance is tested as Chant’s travels take him further away—and ...