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Eden is cutting through an industrial park following directions that Ami, an online friend, has shared with her to a new escape room. She meets a boy named Ted who rudely tells her she's an NPC, a non-playing character in the video game he's playing and to stop bothering him with her side quests. Eden knows she's real, she knows the game is not a game, but she can't seem to get out without helping Ted find the keys and solve the puzzles. Each puzzle takes them to a new level with increasing levels of danger, but Eden seems to be the only one with an actual life to lose.

When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game—the ultimate escape room with puzzles to solve, codes to crack, and challenges to beat before time runs out. But soon after meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar, and Min, and being locked in the first room, Ami realises this is no ordinary game. From a cavernous library of dust to an ancient Mayan tomb, a deserted shopping mall stalked by extinct animals to the command module of a spaceship heading to Mars, the perils of The Escape are real and absolutely deadly.

When a British computer hacker finds his name coded into a centuries-old manuscript, TimeRider Maddy recognizes it as the same message she had also been sent. Sure it must be communication from other TimeRiders agents, she sends Liam and the two support units back to Robin Hood's time to search for the fabled document-possibly the Holy Grail. But as a war begins to brew between King Richard and his brother John, Liam unwittingly takes on the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham and discovers that the mythical Robin Hood may have been another support unit all along.

The cookies are missing, and the cafeteria is in a total panic! Kid superhero PB&J is back, and his super sandwich-making skills are about to face their most mysterious challenge yet. This time, a mastermind known as the Cookie Crook has struck PB&J's school, swiping all the hot lunches and leaving behind nothing but a sticky trail of crumbly clues! With his best friends, Jimmy and Sophia, PB&J must use teamwork and a whole lot of peanut butter to uncover the culprit. Will their clever detective work and jam-powered plans be enough to catch the Cookie Crook? Or will the entire school be ...

Lily Gefelty is just an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad–a normal-enough seeming guy–just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. Lucky for Lily, her two best friends are anything...

Finn and Explorer Troop 301 get trapped on a planet riddled with viral robots in the third book of this funny chapter book series based on the award-winning kids’ podcast, and read by the author, Jonathan Messinger! Finn’s best robot bud, Foggy, comes down with a weird virus while exploring...

When her grandmother dies, 13-year-old Christy inherits an old family secret: the pond behind her house is in fact a portal to another world. What's more, she learns that her grandfather went through the portal when he mysteriously disappeared nine years ago. As Christy undertakes an adventure into a wondrous and dangerous new world full of strange aliens and advanced technology, she’ll need to trust her instincts and rely on the unique abilities of her friends if she wants to lead everyone safely home.

Artemis Fowl tiene doce años, una mente privilegiada y un plan perfecto: robar el oro de las criaturas mágicas para financiar su pequeño imperio criminal. Lo que todavía no sabe es que los duendes, elfos y hadas del mundo subterráneo poco se parecen a los de los cuentos infantiles...Equipados con la tecnología más puntera y armados hasta los dientes, están más que preparados para la lucha. Pero Artemis también.

Based on the animated micro-series spotlighting some of Star Wars’ greatest heroes, these six exciting adventures feature the heroic Rey, Sabine Wren of Star Wars Rebels, Senator Padmé Amidala, rebel leader Princess Leia, Rogue One’s Jyn Erso, and Jedi apprentice Ahsoka Tano! Includes...

The Timekeepers are a secret organization of kids who keep the course of history on track - and history needs them - a villain called DeLay is set on causing chaos! When the hands on their special watches start to spin backwards, the Timekeepers know that DeLay has been up to no good, and it's...

Pi in the Sky stars Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, whose job is to deliver magical pies - ones that happen to hold the secrets of the cosmos. But when planet Earth suddenly disappears, Joss must figure out a way to bring it back - even if it means enlisting the help of an outspoken Earth girl named Annika.

The sky has a memory and it's starting to fade. Thirteen-year-old Sebastian has always been drawn to the rusted gates of the Miller Creek Airfield, a place where history feels stuck in a holding pattern. But when he discovers a pair of iridescent, purple-tinted aviator goggles hidden in his grandfather's attic, the world shifts. Through their lenses, the horizon is no longer empty; it's a graveyard of glowing flight paths and shimmering ghost-planes from a war long forgotten.

April Jefferson doesn’t know why she and her friends are traveling back in time. All she knows is that she and Henry and Toad are now in Michigan! They still don’t know where their father is, and they have no idea how to get home. Can they find the missing pieces to the puzzle, or will they be stuck in history forever?

A heart-stopping, nostril-burning sequel to the international bestseller The Day My Butt Went Psycho! Find out what happens when butts attack . . . from outer space! In the deepest, darkest corner of the solar system lies an enemy more terrifying than the people of Earth could imagine. Vicious...

Becky is a typical 13-year-old girl. She likes Facebook, animals, and plenty of sleep. So when she and her brother Joe are invited to stay with their "loony" Uncle Percy at his stately home, the mysterious Bowen Hall, she thinks it"ll be the worst summer ever. What she doesn't realize is that Bowen Hall is also home to a baby Triceratops, two Sabre-tooth tigers and the mythic hero, Will Scarlet....

Crater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend... and the entire human race. Maria Medaris - gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance - is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon. When she is kidnapped by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists, Maria's only hope turns out to be the very man she once spurned: Crater Trueblood. Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company must rescue Maria before she joins forces with the lunatics who have taken her hostage and aim to make her queen.

Acclaimed author Maiya Williams has written and produced several children’s television programs, including Rugrats and The PJ’s. When their mother dies suddenly, 13-year-old Rowan and 11-year-old Nina move in with their aunts. Soon after, Rowan and Nina begin to suspect their aunts possess psychic powers. With friends in tow, the two siblings embark on an adventure through time to discover the origins of their aunts’ strange powers. Kevin Free’s playful narration perfectly suits this mysterious tale.

Prepare for a riveting and heartwarming adventure in 'Dean's Magical Mix Up: The Principal's Pin,' where the unexpected becomes the norm. In "Dean's Magical Mix Up: The Principal's Pin," Dean, a young middle-grade student, hates going to school. After enduring a particularly awful school day, Dean stumbles upon the Principal's Pin, a peculiar, shimmering object lying on the floor. Curiosity gets the better of him, and he pockets the mysterious pin. That night, he goes to bed wishing he were an adult, never suspecting that he will wake up the next day transformed into the school principal! ...

Nur Muh-t, das klappt schon: während die Familie Malto sich an ihre neuen Familienmitglieder gewöhnt, bemerkt Bumblebee schnell, dass seine Mission, die Terraner zu trainieren, nicht so einfach ist, wie gedacht.

Sixth-grader Max has it rough between tormentors at school and his sick—ever-worsening—mom at home. But then DZ, a strange, tuxedoed man with one shoe, appears to Max from the future and divulges that Max’s mother’s fate is somehow entwined with that of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. It’s suddenly clear to Max that any problems he already had on his plate have just gotten bigger. DZ explains to Max that someone is after The Starry Night...and the thief is not bound by the usual laws of time and space.