Teen Classics

In the late 19th century, a cylinder crashes down near London. When George investigates, a Martian activates an evil machine and begins destroying everything in its path! George must find a way to survive a War of the Worlds.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: THE KILLER IN THE CLOSET: Elvis awakes with a butcher knife in his gut and calls 911 to save his life. AS RARE AS A WHITE CROW: An Uber driver picks up a fare, and a series of calamities occur on his way to the airport. MASSANUTTAN ACRES: A family enjoys their vacations camping each summer until a truck transporting a polar bear runs off the road. WAXWORKS: Sue discovers the wax figure of Jack the Ripper at the museum looks exactly like her new boyfriend. THE END OF ...

It was now just five short years after George Bailey had his first miraculous meeting with a saving angel in Bedford Falls, and a new Bailey had come into town with his own great challenge that needed a miraculous solution! It was a wonderful life indeed when John Bailey and Anabelle Smith first came to be that otherwise perfect “match made in Heaven” shortly after they first met at the traditional New Year’s Eve Dance of Bedford Falls. It seemed so perfect, when Anabelle tragically died, and then far more surprisingly returned on that very next Christmas saying that she had come back...

Cervantes nos cuenta la vida de dos jóvenes muchachos los cuales se encuentran en el camino de Toledo con dirección Andalucía y hacen amistad uno con otro. Ambos muchachos llamados Pedro del Rincón y Diego Cortado, huyeron de sus respectivos hogares debido a que eran maltratados por sus familias. Por el camino hacia Sevilla encuentran a un arriero, a éste le estafan con cartas robándole todo el dinero que llevaba consigo.

In 1897 Buck, a shepherd dog, is kidnapped and shipped to the Klondike gold fields. Pressed into service as a sled dog, Buck is abused by humans and tormented by the other dogs - until he learns "the law of club and fang." Along with the skills Buck needs to survive - how to keep warm in the frozen land, the ability to scent dangerous weather changes, and how to fight ferociously - he learns the song of the wolves and the powerful attraction it exerts.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: Creepers 2 THE STUFF FILM: A billionaire is worried about his three daughters' disappearance after they left for Hollywood to be movie stars. THE COLLECTION: After twenty years together as soulmates, Jason is suspicious Cindy may be having an affair. THE PRACTICAL JOKER: Tom Tully has been playing repulsive pranks on people all his life but this time he picked the wrong person. FINGERS: A serial killer the media has named "Fingers" who amputates the index finger of ...

As a child, Asha's mother told her ancient, forbidden stories to drive away her nightmares - and the telling of them killed her. And when Asha repeated those stories, they summoned an ancient dragon which almost destroyed her city and left Asha horribly scarred. Ever since, she has protected her city and people by dragon slaying. And now she may have a way to both atone for the deaths she caused and to escape an arranged marriage: her father will free her in exchange for the head of Kovu, the ancient dragon.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: VOODOO DOLLS: A homicide detective finds creepy voodoo dolls in his daughter's closet after she starts dating someone whose major is mortician science. HOODWINK, BAMBOOZLE, & SCREW: A junior administrative new hire is invited to a senior partner's extravagant party that until now has only included members of the partnership group. EXTERMINTORS.COM: A psychiatrist suggests an unexpected remedy for a new patient's deep depression. THE PHANTOM: Two detectives rescue the ...

Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk - Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord - embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world - even beyond the realm of death - as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

After that first remarkable Christmas Day that Charles Dickens himself would call A Christmas Carol, an entire year had passed for Ebenezer Scrooge. A new Christmas Eve had now come, only to draw swiftly to an end with what was about to continue that Christmas tale of old. It was the unfinished business of making things right that moved Scrooge now, with the most pressing issue on his mind stemming from his greatest loss of all—his beautiful Belle! If only he had the chance to act with his present knowledge back in that time when choices mattered, he would surely fix things. He would have...

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiance have begun to track her down.

Arsène Lupin – The Gentleman Burglar Who Dazzles the World Charming, clever, and always one step ahead: Arsène Lupin is no ordinary thief – he’s a master of disguise, an artist of deception, and a rogue with his own code of honor. Whether it’s a cunning break-in, a spectacular heist, or a showdown with the police – Lupin’s adventures are thrilling, witty, and full of surprises. A true classic of crime fiction, starring a hero you can’t help but love. A Thief Like No Other Arsène Lupin is far more than just a criminal. He doesn’t steal out of greed – he does it with ...

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's immediate neighbor Madame Daubreuil, the mysterious "Cinderella" of Hasting's recent acquaintance, and some unknown visitor of the previous day—all of whom Poirot has reason to suspect.

Lann knows nothing of his mysterious past, but by his 15th birthday he will come face to face with destiny. For Lann must wield the Dreadblade, an ancient sword forged to defeat terrible monsters. Across the mountains a King has been murdered. His daughter, Astrid, is a warrior with no desire to bear the crown. Only she can uncover her father’s killer before her brother is framed for the crime. Evil is stirring. Lann and Astrid are the kingdom’s last defence. Together, they must face the greatest darkness their world has ever known.

A collection of 20 horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The terrors include: THE REFRIGERATOR: A man finds a message for help in a used refrigerator once owned by vampires in the house where his father died ten years before. BLACK AS NIGHT: Two teenagers try to rescue a helpless woman from being buried alive by a masked rider on Halloween. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: Four friends make New Year’s resolutions to overcome phobias each of them has in the coming year. A month later, three of them have met with unexplained deaths, and the survivor ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: THE LUMBERJACK: Teenagers on Halloween out to do mischief, slash the tires and kill the wrong man’s dog. THE FROZEN ABYSS: A team of explorers ventures deep into a remote and uncharted region of Antarctica, following strange satellite signals indicating something massive buried beneath the ice. PRANKS: Four friends tinkering with a Ouija board on Halloween night compete for who can pull off the creepiest prank by midnight to win a mysterious "grand prize. THE ...

Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, fancy clothes and some other habits she considers weird and, mostly, unlikable. However, Polly's warmth, support and kindness eventually win her the hearts of all the family members. Six years later, Polly comes back to the city to become a music teacher.FEAT DESC

Princess Snow has been sheltered since birth, raised in a secret garden at her terrified father's behest. But when her father dies, and her brother grants Snow's freedom, life seems ready to finally begin... just in time for her brother's new wife to reveal a heart of jealousy and fear. Barely escaping the castle alive, Snow stumbles upon a group of kind-hearted mountain men—and the aggravatingly handsome prince who claims her brother asked him to find her.

Septembre 1759. Robinson est à bord de La Virginie faisant route pour le Chili. Une tempête formidable précipite le navire sur des récifs, et Robinson se retrouve seul survivant du naufrage sur une île déserte. Livré à lui-même, sa solitude va le contraindre à faire preuve d'ingéniosité, de persévérance et de courage, afin de survivre dans ce monde sauvage. Jusqu'au jour où, se croyant abandonné de tous, il rencontre un être humain pour le moins inattendu.

Ha pasado casi una década desde el final del libro anterior, y los hijos de Ana ya se han hecho mayores, todos excepto Rilla, quien a sus quince años es una joven coqueta, de encantadora sonrisa e irreprimible entusiasmo, cuya única ilusión es acudir a su primer baile en el faro de Cuatro Vientos. Ana y sobre todo Gilbert, están preocupados por la falta de expectativas de su hija menor y por el hecho de que su única preocupación sea divertirse.