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Jack, Milo, Robin and Big Rock are back with a new friend - Blaze, the magical phoenix. The gang plan to take on notorious bully, Buster Gutt. Soon Jack finds himself and his alter-ego THUD in some seriously hot water.... In the second story, villainous Lord Veto tries to break up the wrestling trolls. Soon Princess Ava is caught in the middle of a wrestling tournament! The brave trolls must come together for glory once more.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello player; Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet player and singer; Frank Sinatra, the Italian American singer and actor; Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star; Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer; and Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize; Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people; John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away; Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children; Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research; Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English literature; William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history; Charles Dickens, who wanted to make England a better place; Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor; Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace; and Rudyard Kipling, who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery; Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor; Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity; Albert Einstein, creator of the theory of relativity; Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic; and Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist.

That Happiness Thing: A Hometown Fable is a children's book that poses the age-old question: "What is happiness?" Which is what a 10-year-old boy from a small California town wants to know.

An unserem Sternenhimmel wimmelt es nur so von griechischen Göttern und Sagenhelden wie Saturn, Uranus, Orion und Kassiopeia. Aber wer kennt heute noch die mitreißenden Geschichten, die sich dahinter verbergen? Ursel Scheffler hat sich auf Spurensuche begeben und die schönsten Sagen aus der "Ilias" und der "Odyssee" neu erzählt. Eine wahre Herkulesaufgabe, bei der sie den roten Faden nie verliert.

Come and take a journey with a young boy, who has just left a country of his birth and arrived in a foreign land. How will he cope with his new surroundings? Will he cry his eyes out? Or will he adapt and raise his chin high? But whatever his reactions are may not be enough; he will definitely need someone to help him through. And here begins a story of his young life.

Sleep is the last thing on the minds of this sister and brother who are about to meet some strange, beautiful, and quite questionable characters! Follow them and the clues as they look for Annie the Amazing Angelfish while weathering winds, summoning superpowers, forging friendships, and fending off foes fathoms below the foamy surface of the surging seas.

Tierisch gut: Kakadu und Kukuda! Kurze Reime, lange Reime, witzige Zungenbrecher, Geschichten vom kleinen Känguru und vielen anderen Figuren - hier dreht sich alles um das Lieblingsthema Tiere. Texte zum Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter bieten lustigen Hörspaß für jede Jahreszeit und die ganze Familie!

Welcome to Willakaville! It's an ordinary small town turned upside down by magic, mayhem, and mystery. Follow amazing children through incredible adventures as they battle monsters, travel back in time, and zoom through outer space. Listeners will learn valuable lessons on problem solving, ownership, self-esteem, creativity, and manners.

Erwachsensein ist (k)ein Kinderspiel. Der zehnjährige Jim wünscht sich, auf der Stelle erwachsen zu sein! Denn in der Schule eckt er bei Mitschülern und Lehrern gleichermaßen mit seinem Spezial-Talent an, sich auf einen Blick ganze Lexikon-Artikel merken zu können. Alle halten ihn für einen Besserwisser. Aber als Erwachsener könnte er bei der Quiz-Sendung "Superwisser" mitmachen. Da taucht auf einmal das Wesen Galimat mit einer EWP (Erwachsen-Werden-Pille) in seinem Zimmer auf.

David had waited since the first of October for the first snow to fall. It finally did in the middle of December. He was finally big enough to go sledding by himself and he couldn't wait to go. When he got his snow tube, he sleds from the top hill downwards, check out the fun David had.

Jack Harper lives in an old castle turned museum. The day he calls Hell to order a demon is one of his more interesting days of his twelve year old life. One demon delivery later, Hell wants to be paid in gold. Between you and me, Jack can't pay. He's in a bit of a hellish pickle.

A poor little girl in a faraway land dreams of riding a pink bicycle. When she meets a strange animal, her dreams come true. Her happiness turns to sadness when a tragedy occurs in the town and her father doesn't come home. Maybe her new magic friend can find him?

Jack knows every wrestling move there is to know, and his dreams come true when he's recruited as a training assistant to Waldo's Wrestling Trolls. Little does Jack know that he's actually part troll, and that when his new family is in trouble he morphs into the terrifying Thud! He'll have to build a team of wrestling trolls to take on Lord Veto's evil orcs at the tournament of tournaments.

School Library Journal hailed Michael J. Daley’s Space Station Rat as a “thoughtful and satisfying adventure.” Here Daley delights young listeners with his first early reader chapter book. Pinch really wants soup for lunch, but he’s too lazy to make it himself. So he decides to pay a visit to his friend Dash. Together, Pinch and Dash attempt to make a cheesy spinach and potato soup. But will their effort be for nothing when they begin to disagree on the amount of pepper and hot sauce the soup needs?

Detektivbüro LasseMaja ermittelt wieder! Ganz Valleby freut sich auf die Schokoladenverkostung auf dem Schloss! Und es kommt noch besser: Der Graf verspricht seinen Gästen enormen Reichtum, wenn sie bereit sind, ein wenig Geld in seine neue Schokoplantage zu investieren. Als Lasse und Maja entdecken, dass die restlichen Räume des Schlosses leer stehen und ein Motorrad abfahrbereit in der Garage wartet, ahnen sie Böses.

Das magische Wilde Volk schwebt in großer Gefahr. Seit die Stadtbewohner herausgefunden haben, wie viel kostbares Sternengold in Farallone zu finden ist, dringen sie in das Land ein - ohne Rücksicht auf die Natur und ihre Geschöpfe. Comfrey und Tin sind die einzigen Menschen, denen das Wilde Volk traut. Und nach der alten Prophezeiung sind sie auch die Einzigen, die Farallone vor der Verwüstung retten können.

Weil es in dem Schuppen, in dem Greta das Einhornfohlen Sternchen zur Sicherheit untergebracht hat, viel zu langweilig war, ist Sternchen Greta einfach in die Schule gefolgt. Dort aber löst es ein Riesenchaos aus - schließlich sieht man so ein Tier nicht alle Tage. Doch leider ist dies auch sehr gefährlich, denn Einhornjäger könnten Wind von diesem besonderen Fohlen bekommen.