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Adventures With An Axolotl! follows Axel, the most curious little salamander in Lake Lumen, as he explores mysterious caves, helps lost mermaids, solves glowing riddles, and learns what it really means to be brave, kind, hopeful, and true to yourself. Written with warmth, vivid imagery, and child-friendly humor, these 15 short stories help young listeners build emotional awareness while having fun.

Friendships are forever. Love knows no bounds. The supernatural graces the everyday in unexpected ways. These themes have made Alice Hoffman a cherished best selling author across the country.

From Case Closed author Lauren Magaziner and artist Mirelle Ortega comes the first book in a new middle grade fantasy series. Full of action, adventure, and friendship, a team of five girls must stop a powerful villain by finding their mythical familiars. It’s Pairing Day in Terrafamiliar!...

Twelve-year-old best friends Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There, among the seaweed and jellyfish that a summer storm has blown in from the ocean, is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart—a mermaid named Aquamarine.

Marina and Moira like playing together, but Marina is noisy and Moira likes quiet. How two preschoolers, one with Cerebral Palsy and one with Down syndrome, become best friends is beautifully told.

"Je m’appelle Clovis et lui, c’est Oups. Tous les étés je vais chez Papy et Mamie. À chaque fois, il nous arrive plein d’aventures extraordinaires. Et quand on part chercher les crabes, c’est toujours eux qui nous trouvent... J’adore les vacances, mais il y a quand même un truc que je déteste : ça passe vraiment trop vite !" Retrouvez les inséparables Clovis & Oups dans une aventure drôle et tendre, racontée par l'autrice !

Thirteen-year-old Condi Bloom's dream is to learn to surf, but her laid-back beach town isn't what it used to be. Big resort owners are taking over the cove. Worse, someone's harassing the Beachlings, the mysterious old women living in the cliffs off Windy Hollow, a lonely tower of rock that people say is haunted. When a new surfer boy named Trustin shows up in town and invites Condi to a forbidden surfing spot, she's swept into an extraordinary underwater adventure, where a surprising encounter with Koan, the Riddlemaster of the Sea, changes her life.

Return to Sunrise Lagoon in this warmhearted sequel, which finds anxious middle child Marina making waves on her journey to trusting herself. If you want to get to know Marina Ali-O'Connor, you need to know three things: One, despite her name, Marina is secretly afraid of the water. Two, she...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them: the aquarium. 

Le ragazze iniziano la gara ma, superata una curva, scorgono una sagoma spaventosa. Un drago? Un mostro marino? Spaventate si precipitano a casa di Barbie e Skipper, che nel frattempo si stavano godendo un bel bagno in piscina, e raccontano loro l'accaduto. Le investigatrici non si lasciano intimidire e decidono di risolvere il mistero come una vera squadra. Riusciranno a scoprire cosa si nasconde dietro la mostruosa apparizione? Vivi fantastiche avventure con Barbie e i suoi amici!

Twelve-year-old Arlo is afraid of fire, creepy TV shows, and even his own shadow—but most of all, he’s afraid of losing his mother to the disease that nearly claimed her life a year ago. During a Thanksgiving road trip, a sudden collision with a strange beast in the middle of the road totals the family’s car, and Arlo, his mom, and his sister end up stranded in a small town called Livermore. But there’s something off about this place.

In 1818, Jeannette Power, a young French woman moved to Sicily and fell in love with the Mediterranean Sea and the Argonauta Argo octopus, the weirdest octopus on Earth. At the time, though, the only way to study a marine animal was if it was dead on land. That wasn’t good enough. Jeannette wanted to study this creature alive. She had many questions: did it create its own shell, how did it reproduce, what did it eat, and did it know she was watching? She knew that careful observation was the only way to answer her questions.

Te presentamos a Popocha, una niña tierna y solidaria. Seguramente mientras estés leyendo esta historia, te sentirás identificado con ella, ya que aprenderás que en la apertura y aceptación del otro, con paciencia y amor, es como se crean verdaderos momentos de paz y armonía...

Un inspirador álbum de Marina Marroquí sobre el empoderamiento de la mujer «Mi pequeña , mamá quiere contarte por qué vuela tanto, por qué no estoy tanto tiempo como quisiera en nuestro nido. Volar no siempre ha sido fácil si naces mujer. Con este cuento quiero recordarte lo importante...

La Lluna és una nena que viu amb la Bernarda, la seva àvia. Les han fet fora del seu pis, així que l'única opció que tenen és tornar a la llar familiar, un casalot vell i tronat situat en una petita illa, molt menuda. Allà la Lluna s'haurà d'adaptar a una nova casa, un nou col·legi i uns nous amics. Coneixerà la Kènia, una noia molesta que la segueix allà on va, i a l'Enric, misteriós i callat. El misteri del drac que viu al mar l'ajudarà a posar pau amb la seva ràbia interna i a apropar-se a aquells que la rodegen.

Éste Sonolibro (Audiolibro dramatizado, con música infantil y efectos especiales) hará las delicias tanto de pequeños como de mayores. Es una historia con tía Águeda y dos fantasmas que despiertan en primavera para estirar sus sábanas antes de que vuelva el invierno. Los fantasmas ayudarán a tía Águeda a solucionar un gran problema que tiene: el banco se quiere quedar con su casa y los fantasmas harán lo posible para evitar que tía Águeda se quede sin casa.