blessing and cursing

Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.

The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in Japan, in which the arrival of a sword in the mail has precipitated a terrible curse.

Text and photographs explore various theories about the unusual number of deaths following the opening of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922.

With Penn and Lexi determined to kill Gemma and replace her with another siren, Gemma, aided by Harper and Daniel, must delve into her enemies' mythical past and darkest secrets in a last-ditch effort to protect all that she holds dear.

Nick is tormented by visions of "future memories," and although he can risk changing these events if he goes "off script," the results are often worse than what he has seen, but when he meets Taryn one summer at the Jersey shore he begins to understand where this hated power comes from and what it means.

Humorous illustrations, captions, and sidebars describe the unusual events involved in possibly being cursed by King Tut of Egypt long after his death occurred in 1323 B.C.

Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing.

Describes the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt by Howard Carter in the 1920s, discussing the treasures found there and the mysterious deaths of some of the discoverers soon after the tomb was opened.

When a skeptical Zoe has her fortune told at a carnival, and the fortune-teller gives her a special necklace, it begins a run of bad luck that leads her to believe she has been cursed.

When a skeptical Zoe has her fortune told at a carnival, and the fortune-teller gives her a special necklace, she starts a run of bad luck that leads her to believe she may be under a curse and that something terrible may be about to happen.