Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travellers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.

Two 15-year-old classmates are loving and devoted "best friends," but the time comes when they must ask themselves a hard question about their relationship.

Raised by vampires, a shapeshifter learns that he may be a bloodwitch who possesses rare and destructive magic that the leader of the powerful Midnight empire seeks to control.

Stories involving a variety of monstrous and inconspicuous, fantastic and apparently normal mutations explore the possible consequences of variously caused genetic changes in living creatures

Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family.

Dragons are common in the back water kingdom of bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus thrax (who would much rather people just call him robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart — in part because he likes dragons, feeling an odd kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince’s valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind . . .

The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered "subversive" and dangerous to Chile's future. So Celeste's parents must go into hiding before they, too, "disappear." B

Once again, Tim Diamond and his younger brother Nick are flat broke. So when they're hired to investigate an anonymous death threat made to world-famous pop singer and movie actress Minerva, they jump at the chance. However, the Greek celebrity seems to have plenty of enemies so the question is, which one actually wants her dead? Meanwhile, Tim needs to resist Minerva's amorous advances and focus on the matter in hand.

He no longer has a name or a family, and the Nazis have taken his country. Now known only by his code name Kris, Jesper has become a freedom fighter and gone underground. If he is caught he will be tortured and killed. He is afraid of dying--but he will never give up.

This is an illustrated children's book featuring a family of oppossums. Frances is bored, and complains to his father that he has nothing to do. His father gives him a 'something-to-do' stone, and tells him to put it in his pocket and rub it when he can't think of anything to do. This works so well that he teaches the technique to his little sister.

World of Krypton: The Home of Superman [mass_market] Kupperberg, Paul

This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of 1,200 children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.

Three episodes with a little girl and her family: "Trudy and the Copycats", "Trudy and the Dump Truck", and "Trudy and Superman".

One day a little girl said to her brother... Do you know what I'll do at the seashore? I'll bring you a shell to hold the sound of the sea. In a little girl's magical question-and-answer game, Charlotte Zolotow captures, with unerring childlike simplicity, a sister's special love for her little brother.

Collects no. 1-6 of the comic book "Ultimate Fantastic Four" which chart the origins of the superheroes.

Harry follows the rag-and-bone man through the rain door and finds himself in a strange world

Whooooo¿s afraid of the dark? Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Dad is sleeping. You can¿t make a peep! So just ignore that howling, and that rattle-rattle, and the shadow lurking in the corner. There¿s no such thing as ghosts . . . Right? An older brother ¿reassures¿ his younger sister about all the creatures that she imagines lurking in the dark bedroom, but his words only scare her more. Full-color illustrations. For ages 3 to 7.

Hendrika, a Dutch cow, visits a large city when she accidentally falls in a canal and floats downstream