action & adventure

How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game. Painted Wolf: Sixteen-year-old activist blogger whose father has been arrested and deported back to China. To free him and clear their name, she must retrieve files held by a dangerous group of online terrorists. Rex: Sixteen-year-old Mexican-American programmer and hacker whose work was stolen by a corrupt CEO. Reunited with his brother, he must work from the shadows to stop this mastermind from using his programs to take control of the Internet. Tunde: This fourteen-year-old engineering genius has saved his Nigerian village from a vicious warlord, but in the process has discovered that a much more dangerous and pervasive threat exists . . . one that effects not only his family and friends, but the entire world!.

It's Hero Day at school, and there are some special visitors in the classroom! This first Pre-K early reader features soft and friendly illustrations, word repetition, and simple sentences. Perfect for readers in training (Pre-K-Kindergarten).

Miceking chief Sven the Shouter has a new goal: to transform smarty-mouse Geronimo Stiltonord into a true macho mouseking. Geronimo must undergo special training, leading up to a terrifying final test -- pulling a tooth from a dragon's mouth! Shivering squids! Will he ever earn a miceking helmet?.

When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety. But soon they encounter something even Sarah cannot believe: a silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, the group uncovers the chilling truth behind the lion s silver sheen: a Corpus-manufactured, highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area and eliminate life as they know it.

A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.

Resentful that he is being limited, Odin begins to rebel against the authorities in his life. At school, he acts up in class, refuses to do homework, and predicts answers before hearing the question. At home, Odin becomes suspicious that his parents aren't the loving caregivers they claim to be, but instead manipulative captors programming his every action and thought. With Wendell still whispering his head, Odin becomes more powerful and less trusting until finally learning a stark truth: everything he knows is a lie.

Odin Lewis has always known he is different from everyone else: he can levitate objects, look into the past, and learn things no one else can. Now, approaching his seventeenth birthday, Odin's life is changed when his old friend Wendell returns. Trouble is, Wendell isn't real, he's an imaginary friend absent since Odin was still a child. Wendell brings with him secrets both powerful and disturbing. Under Wendell's influence, Odin begins to question everything he thought he knew about himself, his family, his friends, and his entire life, while slowly learning more about his powers.

A New World Order. A New Global Threat. Beyond the Point of No Return. #5 in series.