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Una original, divertida y entrañable novela que nos habla de la soledad de las personas y de los refugiados. “Me llamo Omar y soy una nuez. Mi padre era jardinero y mi madre olía a canela. A los dos se los comió el mar poco antes de llegar a la playa. Los vi desaparecer mientras flotaba en aquella cáscara de nuez junto a otros desconocidos. De los tres, solo yo llevaba un pequeño salvavidas con mi nombre. Lo había escrito mi madre para que no lo olvidara nunca.”

It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job - running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster in Melbourne. But things start to get a little too hot for Charlie, so he decides to take the money and run....

In this fourth mystery about 12-year-old Maisie, the young detective must solve a crime for her friend, Professor Tobin. The professor travelled all over the world collecting strange and wonderful objects, and the British Museum is opening a special room to house his collection. But before the professor's donation, a thief steals a valuable Amazonian tribal mask! With just a single feather left behind, Maisie doesn't have much to go on, but the stakes in her newest case are higher than ever.

It's 1914, and Darleen Darling's film adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping set up by her studio becomes all too real. Suddenly Darleen finds herself in the hands of dastardly criminals who have just nabbed Miss Victorine Berryman, the poor-little-rich-girl heiress of one of America’s largest fortunes. Soon real life starts to seem like a bona fide adventure serial, complete with dramatic escapes, murderous plots, and a runaway air balloon. Will Darleen and Victorine be able to engineer their own happily-ever-after, or will the villains be victorious?

It’s been four months since Janelle Tenner stopped the Earth’s destruction with the help of Ben, the boy who resurrected her after she died. Ben is gone now - disappeared through a portal to his home world. Even though Ben broke her heart, Janelle refuses to believe it when Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay tells her Ben is suspected of running a human-trafficking ring across several universes. She vows to uncover the true culprit and rescue the people who have been sold into slavery on alternate Earths - not to mention find Ben and prove his innocence.

Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks her to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with - it's a flower-scented, poodle-skirt-wearing, head-tossing ghost who's calling out Elizabeth's name.

John Grisham delivers high-intensity legal drama for a new generation of readers in the seventh novel in his best-selling Theodore Boone series. One of Theo's best friends, Woody Lambert, has been arrested. Woody's not guilty, and Theo must do everything in his power to exonerate his friend and shield him from an unforgiving youth court system.

Eliot und seine Freundin Isabella freuen sich ratzemäßig auf die Ferien in Philomena Pfirsichs Fischerhütte. Doch unterwegs wird Eliots rotweiß-gepunktete Lieblingstasche geklaut. Eliot ist stinkesauer, das war bestimmt Bocky Bockwurst und seine Bande! Die Spur führt in die Stadt am Meer, wo sich die Ereignisse überschlagen. Eliot und Isabella sind gespannt wie ein Flitzebogen, ob hinter allem vielleicht ein ganz anderer Dieb steckt.

For sixth grader Sam Warren and his friends Catalina, Alistair, Jaesang, and Zoe, the effects of climate change are too pressing to ignore. Adults don’t seem to be up to the challenge of taking action to make real change, but kids know it’s their futures on the line. If their parents, teachers, and government officials won’t step up well, then, they will!

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far and wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter's dog, Nell, has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents, too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter and listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared?

For 12-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods and to work as a "taxi", running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily runs off while under his watch, earning his mother a heavy fine.

En mycket upprörd greve von Knorr knackar på hos kommissarie Tax. Någon har stulit hans tavlor av konstnären Kalasson och dessutom hans Mona-Grisa! Kommissarien kan inte så mycket om konst, men inser snart att de stulna tavlorna är väldigt värdefulla. Men hur kan den mystiska stölden ha gått till? Kommissarie Tax är en småfet tax i sina bästa år. Han spelar saxofon och är snäll, men inte alltid så smart. Elsie Petrén, född 1954, är en svensk saxofonist, kompositör och författare. Hon hade påbörjat en utbildning till kläddesigner när kärleken till saxofonen tog över.

When an earthquake causes a breach at a super-secret Pharos prison, Kensy and Max must join an urgent assignment to Queenstown, New Zealand. Time is of the essence—the escaped prisoners are two highly dangerous men out for revenge against both Pharos and the Spencer family. The twins head into the wilderness in pursuit. But the mountains are dangerous, and instability brought on by the earthquake is only making things worse. Meanwhile, strange things are happening back in London as one Pharos agent is attacked and another disappears.

My name is Ted Spark. Three months ago, I solved the mystery of how my cousin Salim disappeared from a pod on the London Eye. This is the story of my second mystery. This summer, I went on holiday to New York, to visit Aunt Gloria and Salim. While I was there, a painting was stolen from the Guggenheim Museum, where Aunt Gloria works. Then Aunt Gloria was blamed for the theft, and I realised just how important it was to find the painting and discover who really had taken it.

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for solving murder mysteries. But there are many other intrigues in the pages of Hazel's casebook, from the macabre Case of the Deepdean Vampire, to the baffling Case of the Blue Violet, and their very first whodunit: the Case of Lavinia's Missing Tie.

What’s next for Calvin the Piglin? Now that Tera and Kalo have been defeated, the Minecraft world is at peace again. Calvin can’t wait to have his vacation, while Peter is excited to be back working as a detective in the Crimson City Police Department in the Nether. But a letter from an ally is asking for help with capturing the seven most wanted criminals of the Overworld.

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along. But Eleanor has secrets of her own - secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

Now that Calvin and Peter have successfully captured the Halebury fugitives, they are excited to return to Crimson City. But a new mission has found its way to our favorite piglin detectives.

Complemented by exquisite, colorful artwork, Dr. Zelinger skillfully crafts an easily relatable children's story using everyday situations around the oppressive concept of terrorism in the news. With masterful understanding of the child's world, new and frightening concepts are introduced carefully and gently with the child's perspective in mind. This pioneering guide helps children and parents face a critical, often avoided, topic with reassurance and calm.

Based on a true story, Prisoner 88 is the story of ten-year-old Jake, sent to the Old Idaho Penitentiary in 1885 to serve a five-year sentence for manslaughter. Issues of racism, justice, literacy, and frontier life inform James s story, with a compelling first-person voice that instantly transports the reader to the 19th-century American West.