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Beasts in the basement. A gangster in a rabbit suit. And rats in the modem. Great-great-grandma in the freezer. A talking spider in the attic. And a crocodile in the moat. Titus in his bedroom. Baby Damp in her nappy. And Pandora in a strop. Add a stressed-out witch for a mum, a kidnapped dad, and a nanny who puts Mary Poppins to shame and you'll conjure up family life at StregaSchloss. It's bizarre!

Trapped in a dark forest with his cold-hearted parents, Bonebag leads a cruel and isolated existence. However, he feels deep in his bones that things weren’t always this way: he has known happiness before. Why does it feel like it was in a past life? When Bonebag discovers a locket that burns him to the touch, and a ghostly girl beckons him into the deep woods, he must grapple with the riddle of where he came from and how he came to be. Only then can he begin to rewrite his fate.

Jack and Annie are off on another mythical mission at the request of Merlin the magician. Luckily, they have a young sorcerer, Teddy, to help them. From underwater caves to a Spider Queen, from mystical selkies to a magical sword, this is a Magic Tree House adventure kids won’t want to miss!...

Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Join Jack, Annie and the Magic Tree House in this historical holiday story that puts a twist on Charles Dicken's classic The Christmas Carol--from the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Jack and Annie must help the famous writer Charles Dickens! The...

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Magic Shop' is the story of a small boy and his father who go into a shop which appears to sell magic tricks. But the proprietor insists that all the tricks are really genuine magic, and the longer they stay in the shop the stranger the tricks become. Then the shopkeeper performs one truly terrifying trick...and what happens next is very peculiar....

Polly the witch and Buster the monster shouldn’t be friends. And they definitely shouldn’t be on the run from almost everyone in town. But when Polly is called to the Hollow Valley Mines - the forbidden, haunted mines - by her magic stones, these two best friends have a big decision to make. Do they stay hidden and safe or risk it all to save the day?

An Indies Introduce Pick      "A phenomenal debut."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] unique, complex fantasy adventure whose world-building draws inspiration from Portuguese origins." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) Encanto meets Oceans 8 in this middle-grade...

Indigo stammt aus einer Familie von Zauberern und weiss: Magie bringt mehr Probleme, als sie löst! Zum Beispiel ist er sich ganz sicher, dass sich andere Schulkinder in ihren Herbstferien nicht mit fleischfressenden Pflanzen, einem singenden Kürbiskopf und Handwerkerspinnen herumschlagen müssen. Zu allem Überfluss hat er keine Ahnung, welche Art von Zauber er denn wirken kann. Der einzige Hinweis ist sein Name: Indigo Albin Pastell.

Spell enrolls at the Whisper Shook University to tighten her magic. While at school, she falls in love, and also in trouble. With the help of her new friends, there is no mystery or monster this clan cannot handle.

After receiving a mysterious message, Spellsuriffany and her black cat Spook Goblin hesitantly confront the dreadful mummy tribe, before havoc unleashes throughout their forest. Or has the havoc already begun?