Magic Home

Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby "Red" Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother.

Before the walls went up...there were adventures. Follow young Thomas Warvold and his brother, Roland, as they journey through Elyon, discovering new mysteries, new challenges, and magical creatures that will change the course of their fate...and the fate of their land.

La série culte ! Nous les avions quittés sur un radeau emporté par un torrent en crue, nous les quitterons cette fois sur la plage embrumée de Malamer, en une sorte d'étrange retour à la case départ...Entre les deux, tout se passe au fond des mers. Recueillis à bord d'un petit sous-marin boîte à sardines, commandé par un capitaine Virelevent aussi jovial que soupe-au-lait, nos orphelins vont découvrir qu'il n'y a décidément jamais de réponse sûre à la question : "Ami ou ennemi ?".

La série culte ! Nous retrouvons dans ce tome 10 des "Désastreuses aventures" Violette et Klaus Baudelaire dans le pétrin où les avait laissés le tome 9, et Prunille n'est pas mieux lotie, emportée vers les cimes dans l'auto noire du sinistre comte Olaf, sur les genoux de la sinistre Esmé, en compagnie de leurs sinistres comparses... Rappelons que l'expédition vers les monts Mainmorte a pour but de retrouver le dernier QG des VDC, mystérieuse société secrète à laquelle semblent avoir appartenu les parents Baudelaire.

I'm not sure what it is about this kid Duncan, but his crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters! Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath the sofa cushions and then broken in two after Dad sat on him; to poor Turquoise, whose head is now stuck to one of Duncan's stinky socks after they both ended up in the dryer together; to Pea Green, who knows darn well that no kid likes peas and who ran away.

La série culte ! Dans ce pénultième épisode, Violette, Klaus et Prunille Baudelaire aboutissent, à un curieux hôtel nommé « Dénouement ». Dans deux jours aura lieu un grand rendez-vous VDC, et ils sont chargés par la mystérieuse Kit Snicket, de se déguiser en groom pour espionner les agissements suspects des hôtes, ennemis ou membre de VDC.

Molly Moon returns...and bumps into earlier versions of herself, four of them, to be exact, all kidnapped and transported back in time to nineteenth-century India by Molly's most fearsome nemesis yet, an insane maharaja. Molly foiled his plans once already, by stopping Primo Cell from becoming president of the United States. This time around, the maharaja is determined to alter the course of history. The only thing standing in his way is Molly and her brave pug, Petula.

La série culte ! Sortis du coffre de la voiture du comte Olaf (fin du tome 8), Violette, Klaus et Prunille se retrouvent à l'entrée d'un parc forain. Là, règne Madame Lulu, voyante de son état, que le comte Olaf est venu consulter. Malgré leur angoisse, les enfants décident de rester ; il leur faut découvrir si l'un de leurs parents est bien encore en vie. Déguisés en monstres de foire, ils se font engager par Madame Lulu.

With renewed interest in Alexander Key's extraordinary 1968 novel, fans can dive into Escape to Witch Mountain as it was meant to be listened to. The powerful, thrilling story of Tony and Tia - twins joined by their paranormal gifts, on the run from evil forces that seek to suppress their forgotten pasts - is more gripping and relevant than ever.

Molly Moon is back, and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and take over the world. He has all the Hollywood celebrities in his power, but Molly Moon has an amazing power of her own, which even she doesn't know about.

An adventure to blow you away! That's what Jack and Annie get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the 1870s. They land on the prairie near a one-room schoolhouse, where they meet a teenaged schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But the biggest and scariest thing is yet to come.

Everyone knows that orphanages are horrible places. But Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone else at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. So the last thing she wants is to be sent to live with the very strange Bella Yaga….

When Brentwell Public Library closes over Christmas for renovations, young librarian Lizzie Cotton finds herself unexpectedly unemployed. With a credit card bill to pay, she finds herself googling for a Christmas miracle, and it comes in the form of a little secondhand bookshop desperately seeking a new manager. There’s only one problem. It’s in Scotland, at the other end of the country, in a little village that Lizzie can’t even locate on a map.

When Princess Mary ascends the throne in sixteenth-century England, Rose is forced to leave Princess Elizabeth and serve Mary. But the religiously devout queen’s next plan is to begin her attack on Protestants - burning them at the stake! Rose’s dad urges Rose to escape to her home century, present day Indiana, where Rose befriends a young immigrant named Marisol. Relishing her newfound family, Rose is determined to rescue her father and best friend Franny from the dangers of Queen Mary's reign. Is she willing to risk everything to save the people closest to her?

In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors: What secrets are they hiding? And most mysterious of all...where are the adults?

Let your home nourish your soul and uplift your spirits. Swirl magical botanicals into your cleaning supplies, call fairies into your garden, ask a spider for advice. Clear clutter for clarity, perform the oatmeal cookie ritual for abundance, or make a sweet dreams charm for a good night's sleep.

In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived.

Eleven-year-old Roxie was excited to start sixth grade... until a mortifying incident at a pool party turns her into a middle school laughingstock. Roxie can't imagine enduring a full year of bullying and body shaming, so when her country music star Granny invites Roxie to join her on tour, she jumps at the chance to leave her troubles behind. But then Granny—who's been struggling with memory loss—goes missing, leaving Roxie without an escape plan... and without her best friend.

Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: The cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults - dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little foster brother, Louie, she makes a daring escape.

Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. Each night she and her teacher, Thin Elderly, visit an old woman’s home where she softly touches beloved objects, gathering happy memories, and drops of old scents and sounds. Littlest One pieces these bits together and presents them to her sleeping human in the form of pleasant dreams. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares, are always at work against the dreamgivers.