Child Law

På Lappedykkerøen er moster Frida stødt på noget. Der kunne meget vel ligge en vikingeskat begravet i jorden, og sådan en er mange penge værd. Nogle arkæologer, der har hørt om skatten, dukker op og skal undersøge jorden nærmere. Men virker de ikke lidt underlige? Og hvorfor bliver Basse ved med at påstå, at der findes vampyrer på øen? Tredje bind i en krimiserie med grin, gys og lidt for meget mad.

Kim są zawodnicy, którzy zamiast biegać po murawie przez cały mecz w skupieniu stoją na bramce? Bramkarze to niezwykle ważne postacie w każdej drużynie. To w dużej mierze na ich barkach spoczywa odpowiedzialność za wynik każdego meczu. Sięgnij po lekturę książki o pięciu topowych bramkarzach świata piłki nożnej: Neuera, Čecha, Casillasa, Buffona i Fabiańskiego. Dowiedz się jak przebiegała ich droga do mistrzowskiego poziomu. Jakie cechy charakteru sprawiły, że dziś ich nazwiska zna każdy fan futbolu? Zdradzamy tajemnice pracy bramkarzy i przepisy na spektakularny sukces największych sław.

A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon’s downfall, Bringing Down A President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy.

De fem detektivbørn Larry, Daisy, Pip, Tykke og Bets er chokerede, da en eller anden begynder at sende anonyme, hadefulde breve til flere af indbyggerne i deres lille by Peterswood. Det rammer også Pip og Bets familie, da deres unge stuepige Gladys modtager et af brevene, som afslører en hemmelighed. Børnene beslutter, at de er nødt til at finde ud af, hvem der står bag. Men deres ærkerival, politimanden hr. Goon, er også på sagen, så de må skynde sig, hvis de vil løse mysteriet før ham.

Lady Candling holder meget af katte - og især af meget kostbare siameserkatte. En dag bliver hendes allerdyreste kat, "Nattens dronning", stjålet! Børnene Larry, Daisy, Pip, Tykke og Bets beslutter sig for at finde den skyldige. Ikke mindst fordi deres gode ven, gartnerdrengen Lukas, bliver anklaget for tyveriet. Men der venter dem mange overraskelser, før det lykkes dem at komme på det rette spor ... I børnekrimiserien om "De 5 detektiver og sporhunden" følger vi Larry, Daisy, Pip, Tykke, Bets og den lille skottehund Buster, som sammen løser en masse mystiske sager.

Award-winning author Paul Griffin is renowned for his spot-on dialogue and affecting characterization. Stay With Me features the unlikely romance between 15-year-olds CeCe, a sensitive "A" student, and Mack, a high school dropout. With every moment that passes, CeCe and Mack grow closer as they bond over a rescued dog and share their most intimate secrets. But when Mack makes a terrible mistake, their shared vision of the future begins to crumble.

The only downside to Joshua Cooper's investigation of a mob runner is not being able to discuss it with his two best friends, 19-year-old twins, Aster and Ivy Redd. However, when Ivy sells one of her quilts to the mob runner, and Aster hits him with her car in a motel parking lot, they become entangled in his investigation. The FBI even believes the twins could knowingly be involved with the mob. Joshua will do everything he can to disprove their suspicion and nail the true criminal.

For Archie, the start of summer means another stint at Camp Shady Brook, where there is a lot more to the camp than meets the eye - just like Archie and his now blended family. But thanks to a con Archie developed last year, he’s finally somebody…and he’s not going to lose that status to the new girl, Vivian. For Vivian, thanks to an incident That Shall Not Be Named, her summer of exotic travels with Mom and Dad has turned into traveling to a dump of a summer camp in the middle of nowhere. But thanks to perfect timing, Vivian soon finds herself in a ring of kids trying to out-con each other - and discovers Camp Shady Brook is more like Camp Shady Crook.

A murdered child. A small town. A cult lurking in the shadows...Vickie has always lived a quiet, ordinary life in an equally quiet and ordinary small town. Yet one fateful night a child turns up dead in the woods behind her house in a ritualistic slaughter...Vickie and her family are suddenly thrown into a national spotlight. But as the investigation unfolds, she begins to realize her family isn’t so ordinary after all. Evil is inching closer to those she holds dear and Vickie isn't sure who she can ultimately trust.

In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone, and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew, and her family's most unlikely history.

Viola is a people-watcher. She loves to sit on the step of her father's bakery in Brookwater Lane, creating stories about the weird and wonderful folk who pass by. Her father is secretly impressed by her big imagination, but her mother thinks it's all a bit silly. So when Viola witnesses a terrifying robbery late one evening, her theory as to who is behind this dreadful crime is met with rolled eyes and disbelief. Determined to prove she is not as silly as everyone believes, Viola sets out to bring this villain to justice and show she is more than just a girl with a wild imagination.

Kate is in trouble. Unable to move on from the abduction of her best friend, Kate is determined to prove that Chelsea wasn't just another teen runaway. Unfortunately, her investigations go too far, and she lands herself behind bars. So when the Dean of a last-chance school for juvenile offenders offers Kate an alternative to juvie, she jumps at the chance. Little does she know the challenges she'll face in a school for delinquents where each student is as corrupt as the next.

In his meteoric, 13-year rise to fame, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass movement for civil rights - with his relentless peaceful, non-violent protests, public demonstrations, and eloquent speeches. But as violent threats cast a dark shadow over Dr. King's life, Swanson hones in on James Earl Ray, a bizarre, racist prison escapee who tragically ends King's life.

Thea's overprotective parents are about to drive her nuts. They invade her privacy, ask too many questions, and restrict her online time so much that Thea feels she can't do any of the things her friends do. She barely has time to answer her emails! When she discovers a new role-playing game online, Thea breaks the rules by staying up late to play. Soon she's living a double life: on one hand the obedient daughter, on the other a girl slipping deeper into darkness.

Cameryn Mahoney works as the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado. But if thats not hard enough, her long-lost mother has made a surprise return to Cameryns life. When her mother picks up a mysterious young hitchhiker, Cameryn senses that the girl is running from something. But before she can find out more, the girl is found deadwith a gun in her hand. Is it suicide? Or something even more sinister?

Lucy has been forced to run away from home, as she fears for her safety from her drunken father. She is taken on as a maid at the house of Dr Dee, court magician, upon whom Elizabeth I relies heavily, even down to advising the date of her coronation. The household is strange and sinister, and Lucy has a nose for intrigue.... And she has more than enough to satisfy her: Lucy stumbles across a plot to assassinate the queen and has to find means to warn her....

When a petty thief falls though a glass roof in his attempt to escape from the police, what should have been the death of him marks the beginning of a while new life. After his broken body is reconstructed by an ambitious young doctor, he is released from prison, and, with the help of Victorian London's extensive sewer system, he becomes the most elusive burglar in the city.

Imagine having everything taken away from you - permanently - with no hope of resuming a normal life. This is the case for many teenagers in America who are tried and convicted as adults for the crime of murder. Here Susan Kuklin takes you behind bars for frank interviews with a collection of young men who will spend the better part of their lives in jail. She lets them speak for themselves, providing the raw details of their incarceration and the anger, despair, and surprising hope they experience every day. Kuklin also provides an in-depth look at the American penal system, highlighting its many intricacies and inequities while focusing on capital cases involving juveniles.

Luke was not eager to accompany his best friend, Hayden, and the cocky new kid, Russell, up to the cliff that night. The plan was to watch Russell jump off the cliff into the lake - his initiation for the Briar Academy fencing team. But instead, after an angry confrontation with Hayden, Russell falls to his death. Now Hayden is in jail and the pressure is on Luke to report what he saw. But what did he see?

Based on the extraordinary true story of America's first-ever female detective, this fast-paced adventure recounts feats of daring and danger...including saving the life of Abraham Lincoln! Eleven-year-old Nell Warne arrives on her aunt's doorstep lugging a heavy sack of sorrows. If her Aunt Kate rejects her, it's the miserable Home for the Friendless. Luckily, canny Nell makes herself indispensable to Aunt Kate...and not just by helping out with household chores. For Kate Warne is the first-ever female detective employed by the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency.