Kids Science Fiction

From the mind of basketball legend and Academy Award-winning storyteller Kobe Bryant comes this radically original portrait of five young basketball players, one enlightening coach, and the awesome transformative power of the game. Filled with insights about the mental stamina and emotional clarity that peak performance requires, this is an indispensable story for young athletes, coaches, educators, and anyone interested in the astonishing potential of team sports to unlock individual growth.

Pahua Moua has a bit of a reputation for being a weirdo. A lonely 11-year-old Hmong girl with the unique ability to see spirits, she spends her summer days babysitting her little brother and playing with her best friend, a cat spirit no one else can see. One day Pahua accidentally untethers an angry spirit from the haunted bridge in her neighborhood - whoops. When her brother suddenly falls sick and can't be awoken, Pahua fears that the bridge spirit has stolen his soul.

Spat out by the sea, the boy lay on the rocks, as still as death. Even if he survived the day, he had no home. No memory. And no name. So begins the tale of the strange young boy, who having washed up on the shores of ancient Wales, is determined to find his real home and his true name. One day he will become the greatest wizard of all time, but he knows nothing of this now.

Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the family business. Starved for adventure and release, Dally rescues a mysterious envelope from her mother’s clutches, an envelope Grandpa had earmarked for her. The map she finds inside leads straight to an ancient vault, a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time. As Dally “checks out” adventure after adventure she begins to dive deep into her family’s hidden history.

In this standalone novel based on Filipino mythology, Corazon Lopez is looking forward to her eleventh birthday, when she can finally be trained in wielding babaylan magic. She's hoping she can use it to bring her parents back to life so they can be together again.

Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show. But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face: a servant of Death itself.

Isabel loves being at Unicorn Academy! She wants to be the best Unicorn Rider ever with her unicorn, River, even if he isn’t always as brave as she is. When she and her friends are tasked with collecting starburst flowers to celebrate the Fairy Moon, she’s determined to find the most, even if it means getting her and River into danger. Then disaster strikes, and the bond between Isabel and her unicorn begins to fade. Can Isabel and River learn to work together? Or will they lose their bond . . . forever?

Tras pasar varios años separadas, Anna y Elsa por fin están empezando a conocerse. Sin embargo, a Anna le gustaría poder recordar los momentos mágicos que pasaron juntas cuando eran pequeñas, como cuando patinaban y hacían muñecos de nieve… ¡hasta en pleno verano! Un joven y entusiasta trol asegura poder recuperar los recuerdos que Gran Pabbie le borró, aunque Elsa no las tiene todas consigo.

En Arendelle se han abierto las puertas del castillo y Anna y Elsa están entusiasmadas con la idea de conocer al fin a los habitantes del reino. Anna vibra de emoción al pensar en todas las cosas que puede hacer y toda la gente a la que va a conocer, y a Elsa le encanta utilizar su magia para ayudar a todos sus súbditos. Sin embargo, dirigir un reino puede ser agotador, y para las hermanas, lo más importante del mundo, ¡es poder pasar tiempo juntas! A veces incluso una reina necesita un día libre.

Anna y Elsa van a recibir la visita de unos invitados muy importantes. Como quieren causarles una buena impresión deciden mostrarles el precioso palacio de hielo que Elsa creó en lo alto de la Montaña del Norte.Sin embargo, los invitados se llevan una enorme sorpresa cuando los traviesos muñequitos de nieve de Elsa toman el palacio... Por lo visto, ¡los minúsculos muñequitos pueden armar un alboroto muy muy grande!

¡El amor está en el aire! Se están enviando extraños regalos y tarjetas al castillo, ¡y parece que la reina Elsa tiene un admirador secreto en algún lugar de Arendelle! Olaf está entusiasmado. ¡Le encanta el amor! Anna y Elsa quieren averiguar quién ha enviado los regalos. ¡Que empiece la búsqueda del admirador secreto! Frozen: Anna y Elsa. Únete a las maravillosas aventuras de la princesa Anna, la reina Elsa, Olaf el muñeco de nieve, Kristoff y su reno Sven, junto a todos los demás habitantes de Arendelle.

Oaken el Trotamundos obsequia a Elsa y Anna con su último invento, un artilugio de aspecto un tanto extraño diseñado para cortar hielo. Kristoff accede a participar en una competición amistosa contra Oaken. Sin embargo, al día siguiente, la máquina y los recolectores… ¡han desaparecido! ¿Podrán Anna, Elsa y Olaf encontrarlos? Frozen: Anna y Elsa Únete a las maravillosas aventuras de la princesa Anna, la reina Elsa, Olaf el muñeco de nieve, Kristoff y su reno Sven, junto a todos los demás habitantes de Arendelle.

Bobby Phillips is an average 15-year-old boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming, Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her.

Lavinia “Vin” Lucas is out of control and out of options. Stranded by parents who would rather use their average magical abilities to study dung beetles than raise her, Vin's been on her own for years. But she’s never been able to corral her own powerful, unpredictable magic. After years of detention, suspension, and expulsion from magic schools far and wide, she’s now being sent to the Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents. If she gets expelled, it’s the end of the line. Now, Vin is determined to behave. Except no one at Last Hope seems to want her to.

When Murph Cooper rocks up to his new school, he can't help but feel a bit out of his depth. And it's not because he's worried about where to sit, and making friends, and fitting in, or not knowing where the loos are. It's because his mum has enrolled him at a school for superheroes by mistake. And unlike his fellow students Murph has no special abilities whatsoever. But just because you don't have superpowers, it doesn't mean you can't save the day....

After their adventures in China and Germany, the Kidd family is ready for some rest and relaxation. But when you're an ace treasure hunting team, there's always another adventure waiting around the corner! This time the Kidds head to Russia, where a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt has gone missing. Hot on the trail of the daring thieves, the Kidds race through the sinister streets of St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to track down the stolen treasure.

Hi, whoever is reading this. I’m Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy. Things used to be simple—until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I’m weird; and my mom is making me start preparing for my bat mitzvah, even though we barely ever go to synagogue. In fact, only thing that still seems to make sense is magic. See, the thing is, I’m a witch. I’ve been casting spells since I was little. And even if no one else wants to believe in magic anymore, it’s always made sense to me, always felt true.

Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world’s most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking hated school and preferred to spend his free time building model airplanes, inventing board games, and even building his own computer. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails into her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope.

Twelve year old Jake's middle school is about to be shut down—unless Jake and his friends can figure out how to save it. When Jake spies a bowl of jellybeans at the hotel where his mom works, he eats them. But those weren't just jellybeans. One of the scientists at his mom's conference is developing the world's first ingestible information pills. And that's what Jake ate.

Our tale begins where I’m from the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story leaves off. Emboldened from a putterbike race victory against his arch-nemesis, young sunling Gustafer Yellowgold heads to Earth to cure his ultra-rare case of Ice-Cream-Cone-Heart. Back on the Sun, Gustafer’s older brother, Ben, faces the heat from Mission Control when the journey doesn’t go as planned, and young Gustafer’s fate hangs in the balance.