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First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts
Helen has absolutely no interest in becoming a vet like her mother. So she isn't best pleased when asked to help an injured horse. Only this horse isn't entirely normal . . . and nor are his friends. Without warning, Helen is thrust into an extraordinary world full of magical rituals, fantastical creatures and a dangerous, powerful beast known as the Master, who would destroy it all. Everything hinges on finding the lost Book of Wisdom before the Winter Solstice. Can Helen work out the riddles and help her new friends to make amends for a foolish prank? This is a wonderful mixture of fable and fiction, woven together into an exciting race through Scotland's diverse landscapes, accompanied by an array of creatures from mythology and folklore.
Fabled Truths
With themes wrapped around tabooed comedy routines, Fabled Truths, Volume Three is the third of three collections containing easy, but uncomfortable, self-portraits and poetic essays addressing social situations through parodies of American iconography, uncompromised profiling and mindless stereotyping. The book presents skewed modern snapshots of what a long history of bias has left on the shared consciousness of Americans, guiding the viewer’s outside and deeper inside the skins of what their own surface assessments of cultures, social practices and gender identities might be, with a challenge to cross the battle-lines between the fables and the truths of those assessments. Fabled Truths...
Pippa Park Raises Her Game
A CONTEMPORARY REIMAGINING OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR MIDDLE GRADERS Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically while keeping her past and her family's laundromat a secret from her elite new classmates. But when Pippa begins to receive a string of hateful, anonymous messages via social media, her carefully built persona is threatened. As things begin to spiral out of control, Pippa discovers the real reason she was admitted to Lakeview and wonders if she can keep her old and new lives separate, or if she should even try.
Aesop's Fables
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
The Court of Hidden Faces
This gamebook is set on the edge of the world in the ancient lands of Uttaku and Old Harkuna, where exotic intrigue and betrayal await those brave enough to venture ashore. It is interconnected with the other " Fabled Lands" books, and readers can play from one book to another.
Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling
This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.
Hannah Edwards Secrets of Riverway
This authentic ADHD reimagining of Hamlet is a fresh and unconventional take on a classic–that’s also a mystery! It’s Nancy Drew and Sammy Keyes mixed with Turtles All the Way Down and Honestly Elliott. Cheer on Hannah Edwards in this exciting mystery and relatable coming-of-age story about ADHD, friendship, school, and family. Hannah has a lot on her mind. Her father—the Canola King—is missing, and no one in her small town seems to care. With the support of her best friend Sam Castillo, and their sidekick Tim the Hall Monitor, Hannah embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance. Along the way, she uncovers secrets that she records in her journal, confr...
The Houses of the Dead
The underworld was once ruled over by the death god Hades, but he sleeps in his immortal tomb, weakened by centuries of neglect. What is to be done with his realm now? Who will refurbish its sepulchral halls, sweep away the corpse dust that coat its tenebrous terraces, and revitalise the dead that once walked its cheerless cloisters? Who else but you? And what is to be found in the underworld? Bone chilling winds sweep across desolate plains, carrying the despairing moans of lost souls to every corner of the realm of the dead. Swamps fester in the pale nacreous glow that rises up from the decaying earth, tombs litter the landscape like broken teeth, shadows walk the land, muttering in the da...
The Weeping Wombat
The Brigade hears Walter the wombat whimpering in the willow. Walter tells the Brigade that the other wombats make fun of him. They say he is a wimp because he weeps. "Say what?" Bismark exclaims. "Weeping doesn't mean you're a wimp " Dawn and Tobin agree. They tell Walter that weeping is just another way of expressing emotion. And that like a good laugh, a good weep can feel great. The Brigade and Walter share with each other their woes, and soon, the four friends are all having one big, wonderful weep fest
The Hammer of the Sun
In the desert's fiery heart, secrets and wonders await you that even the gods have forgotten. Brooding sphinxes, whose centuries of stony sleep only the most resourceful hero dare disturb. The skeletal Spartoi, consumed with cold hate, waging perpetual war against all living things. Proud Amazons, who may make you their monarch or their sworn foe. And seers and demigods who will guide you through the hidden reaches of this fabled realm - at a price. Defy the ravages of time to restore the ancient city of Iskandria to its former grandeur. Hunt monsters among the stars. Uncover the mysteries of sand-covered ruins. Range out into the wilderness to face primordial dangers and strange creatures o...
