Showing results for "John" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Twelve-year-old Mia Carter has never been special. She's just a normal kid in the ordinary town of Willow Creek, where nothing exciting ever happens. But on a Tuesday night, the most ordinary night of the week something extraordinary appears at the end of her street. A door.

Civil war tears apart the Darkling nation. The Eden army is too small, too battered to overcome the warring Darkling factions. Even more insidious, Justin discovers that Victus built a small army of demon golems created from parts of Nightliss' soul - and these golems may soon control the Darkling legions. The only army large enough to overcome the threat is controlled by Kaelissa, but she has her own designs on ruling Seraphina. 

In the second book of John Christopher's classic series, Will Parker and his cohorts have spent a year living among the free men in the White Mountains. The Resistance charges them, now wearing realistic yet harmless caps, to infiltrate a Tripod city by competing in a sporting exhibition called "the Games" (very similar in nature to the Summer Olympics), in which the winners of the events are to be offered to the Tripods for service.

What if every laugh you've ever shared never truly disappeared? Ten-year-old Oliver Banks has always seen wonder where others see ordinary life. He notices the stories hidden in old trees, the mysteries tucked inside forgotten places, and the tiny sparks of magic that most people never stop to see. Then something impossible begins to happen. Laughter starts disappearing. The joyful giggles of children, the warm chuckles of grandparents, and the happy moments that bring people together slowly begin to fade.

John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his 12th birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down: follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being captured by bandits and taken to a ship riddled with river rats was part of his fate. Not just any bandits - the Bandits of Basswood.

This is the magical story of Iron John told in rhymes for your delight.

Lewis' hopes for a peaceful summer vacation are shattered as one accident after another plagues him. Is all his bad luck really just a coincidence? Or does it have something to do with the mysterious hooded figure he keeps seeing? 

In Nimmerland nehmen die Darling-Geschwister an der großen Totem-Zeremonie der Indianer teil. Dabei erscheint ein Tier, das sich einen Menschen aussucht, dessen Totemtier es sein will. Diesmal erscheint ein Marmoset-Äffchen, und es sucht sich John aus. Da John unfreundlich ist, schnappt sich das Äffchen seine Brille sowie das Große Buch und läuft weg.

This audiobook retells some of the legends of John Henry, an African-American hero who raced against a steam drill to lay railroad tracks on a mountain.

Caradir is a magical land just beyond our grasp, where Elves, Wizards, Goblins and Trolls live. All sorts of animals live there too, and they can talk! Sparky is a squirrel. Join him and his buddies as they battle an army of rats led by the evil King Ratilius.

In Gem Forest, there's no stronger elf than John Henry. With a single swing of his hammer, he can carve out a perfect mining tunnel. So when a sales-gnome says he has a machine that digs better than any miner, John Henry is ready to prove him wrong. But as the contest begins, the device shakes the mountain—and awakens a nest of vicious orcs! Can John Henry defeat the creatures and the gnome's contraption?

When his king dies, Faithful John becomes the servant of the new king. Taking him on a tour of his newly acquired castle, John shows his master all of the rooms but one, which he refuses to enter: a room that contains a mysterious portrait.

It wouldn’t be out of line to call this book a great world of pretend. It is actually eight short stories that are clever and magical, as well as frightening at times. For example, a fierce dragon crawls out of the dungeons of a castle and seems to be aiming at eating an entire nearby village...

The lovable underdog Lewis Barnavelt and his best friend, Rose Rita, are at it again - investigating the curious (and possibly supernatural?) goings-on in their town of New Zebedee. They get more than they bargained for when a new family moves into the Hawaii House, one of the oddest-looking houses in town, and Lewis and Rose Rita are drawn into a mystery involving forces far beyond the shores of their imagination. Why are there strange drumbeats emanating from the top floor of the Hawaii House? And why is Lewis having dreams about Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire? 

Hattie refuses to comb her hair. One night a hairy godmother casts a spell on her. Hattie wakes up with snakes for hair! It’s nearly impossible to keep them under control, which is a huge problem at school. Will Hattie ever have normal hair again?

On a trip to the space station, the space camp members carefully follow a howling creature. As if that wasn’t scary enough, the creature leads them right to a group of aliens! Thankfully they are friendly aliens.

Oliver Banks is eleven years old, almost twelve, and he believes in magic.But the magic is fading.The Storywood — the hidden realm where stories live and breathe — is dying.The Library of Lost Laughs has fallen silent.The Museum of Forgotten Dreams has gone dark.The Garden of Second Chances...

For centuries, mages perfected magic at the Order of the Dawn. Mastery over fire, wind, and storm. They live in the last free city in a world plagued by dark sorcerers. Talis Storm and friend Mara discover a terrible secret. The Jiserian Empire has targeted their city for attack. An army of undead soldiers. Flying necromancers. None have ever survived.

The dreams we forget are never truly gone…Eleven-year-old Oliver Banks has a problem—his dreams have disappeared. Every night, instead of magical adventures, impossible worlds, and the wonder he once knew, Oliver finds only darkness. Then a mysterious letter arrives, inviting him to a place that shouldn’t exist: The Museum of Forgotten Dreams. Hidden somewhere between night and morning, the museum holds every dream ever lost, abandoned, or forgotten. Guided by the mysterious Keeper, Oliver discovers that his dreams were not lost by accident—they were taken.

John and Julia find out that they have been chosen by a collective of wondrous beings called The Twenty-two to save the world from the manipulations of the beyond evil Niem Vidalgo Oten. Fortunately, those Twenty-two have skills that reach from conjuring images of Julia’s dead grandfather to shifting entire realities—unfortunately, however, their moral codes do not allow them to operate in what they call the outer world without the help of humans.