Pirate Fantasy Adventures

Lenore von Erickson, daughter of a wealthy baron, wants nothing more than to spend time at the docks along the sea. Her father, however, has other plans and intends to marry her off as quickly as possible in a business arrangement that, Lenore suspects, has little to do with her own happiness. When her intended husband gives her a magical coin and tells her she can escape this life, she realizes she has little to lose.

Ten-year-old twins Ashlynne and Julian share a special ability: the power to enter each other's dreams. They call it "sharing" dreams. It's usually a great time...until one night when the twins find themselves stuck inside a dream that feels all too real. The pair must work together to find a way to wake up - and they need to hurry - because the dream is quickly turning into a nightmare, thanks to an ancient evil bent on ensuring they never escape....

The parents of a 13 year old boy, acquire an old treasure chest from a nautical shop. While the boy (Josh) and his two closest friends (Jerry and Janet) inspect the chest and tease their imaginations with the contents that the chest once held (gold, silver and jewels), they accidentally uncover a map. It is a map of Lake Erie but, none like they have ever seen before. In fact, it is a map like no one has ever seen before. It takes them to a place long gone, if it ever existed at all.

At the end of Book 16, Captain Porkrind allowed Winston to join her crew. He's pretty happy about this until he discovers a dark secret lurking on the Ender Pearl....

The Steampunk Pirates jump at the chance to earn a handsome reward in return for doing some snooping. But when they find themselves sandwiched between the Dread Captain Inky beard and a spider on the attack, it's time to beat a retreat. Can they escape without a scrape, or have the robotic rebels ticked their last?

The Steampunk Pirates get a taste of their own medicine when their ship is raided by a sea monster that’s greedy for gold. But when the rusty robots race to get their treasure back, they sail straight into a trap. Can they dodge the creature's twisting tentacles or will they be next on the monster’s menu?

Causing chaos wherever they sail, the robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas. He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a handsome reward from the king. Can the mechanical marauders stay one wave ahead of their enemy?

Those terrible pirate twins are at it again! Their relentless pursuit of treasure is causing all sorts of havoc in the seaside town of Little Snoring, and only youngsters Tat and Hetty - and their cat called Dog - have a chance of stopping them.

What do you do when you survive a pirate kidnapping, a milk-drinking contest with a giant grizzly bear, and a stint inside the belly of a whale? If you're Mabel Jones, you do everything you can to avoid another UNLIKELY ADVENTURE! But when Mabel's baby sister is plucked from her crib by an EVIL witch, Mabel has no choice but to follow both to the jungles of the Forbidden City.

Prince is a roving reporter for The New York Telegram. It is 1905, and he is assigned to interview a powerful businessman in San Diego, California. A quick cross-country airship voyage is the last effortless thing he experiences on this trip. In San Diego, Prince encounters pirates, a beautiful Mexican woman, a famous fiction writer (L. Frank Baum), an infamous bandito (listen to find out), monstrous conquistador ghosts, murder, and so much more! Will Prince survive this adventure and make it back to New York City unscathed?

Everyone in Peter Powers' family has super awesome superpowers. His dad controls fire with his mind, and his mom can fly. His big brother makes copies of himself, and his little sister is super-strong. And his baby brother even turns invisible! But all Peter can do is - this is really embarrassing - make ice cubes with his fingertips. That's why Peter's been working hard to improve his ice talents and is more powerful than ever. But when a group of sky pirates come to town, they steal everyone's abilities - including Peter's.

While the Jolley-Rogers are enjoying a day at the beach, Dad and Mom and little sister Nugget are mysteriously drawn into a cave. When they don't return, Jim Lad is suspicious and sends Bones the dog to Dull-on-Sea to find Matilda before he, too, ventures into the cave. Jim Lad soon discovers a magical haul of treasure inside the cave that has bewitched his family. Will the cave's sinister sea hags keep them prisoner forever, or can Matilda and Bones come to the Jolley-Rogers' rescue?

The Steampunk Pirates are lured back to England by the promise of gold. But the appearance of their inventor, Mr. Richmond Swift, signals big trouble. He has a new army of robots, and it's not long before sparks begin to fly. Have the pirates finally met their match?

Cuando Milo se muda a una nueva casa, su perro Dandy descubre una misteriosa puerta cerrada y una llave oculta. Valientemente, Milo abre la puerta y se ve arrastrado a un mundo mágico lleno de aventuras.

Armed with a pitchfork, miner's hat, and map, Mick Bogerman dares to hunt for pirate treasure in Zombie Cave. His little brother Finley is tied up at the beach. Literally - Mick tied him up. No one needs a little brother tagging along when you're going to slay the undead. But Mick soon wishes he'd taken some human company with him, because lurking in every corner, reaching from every crevice, is another hungry corpse. No wonder the place is named Zombie Cave! And finding treasure in the twisty tunnels is a lot harder when your map disintegrates.

When Charlie's father dies, she's devastated. Then, her worst nightmare begins. The king wants young, beautiful Charlie to marry the admiral's son, ensuring her safety and security for life. However, such a union would cut off her greedy Aunt Kathy financially forever. With too much to lose, Aunt Kathy concocts a harebrained scheme to seize Charlie's inheritance, paying devious pirates to abduct her vulnerable niece—a perfect idea, at first.

Eight-year-old Daisy May is the writer and star of her very own TV show, Daisy May’s Daydream Parade, which broadcasts live and exclusively in her imagination. In the latest episode, Daisy May finds herself on a desert island where she discovers a map that leads to buried treasure, but what appears to be a simple quest to find riches soon turns into a roller-coaster ride as evil pirates, grumpy gorillas, and a fire breathing dragon stand in her way. But, when travelling across polluted ocean waters and trash covered beaches, Daisy May soon realizes that treasure hunt can wait.

Il testo originale non sembra un libro per bambini. E’ piuttosto il ritratto di coloro che non riescono a crescere (da cui ha origine, appunto, la sindrome di Peter Pan). Il ritratto malinconico di una figura che siamo stati abituati a considerare fiabesca, lo specchio di alcune parti di noi che sono rimaste bambine e che hanno bisogno di essere accolte.Adatto a: tutti coloro che hanno difficoltà ad accettare che il tempo passa, agli eterni sognatori, a tutti coloro che hanno un capello bianco.

Abraham Lincoln may have returned to history books, but other historical figures saw what he did - and now they know they can escape from their times, too. When Abigail Adams decides there's more to life than doing chores in the White House, she joins a crew of Caribbean pirates! Can siblings Abby and Doc set history straight? Or will they be the ones who need to be rescued?

Patch the Steampunk Pirate Bear and his friend Sprocket the Mechanical Bird sail a steam-powered ship on an adventure through a sky filled with floating islands. Chased by his nemesis Captain Caroline, Patch must risk everything to find the Lost City of Gold and save his friend Nikola. With time running out and Caroline's ship the Wolf hot on his tail, Patch must find the city and get his crew home safely before they are shipwrecked and trapped forever.