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Regan wasn't just a stargazer; he was a star-hunter. Most nights, he just watched the familiar constellations, but one night, a star blinked back. It wasn't a twinkle, but a deliberate, sapphire-blue pulse, like a secret message just for him. That single blink triggers an adventure beyond his wildest dreams.

“It’s fun, silly and, in this National Year of Reading, precisely the kind of gateway entertainment that will show a six-year-old that books can give you a good time […] Consider the daftest story of the new year successfully delivered.” – The Times, Children’s Book of the Week THE...

The skies are calling. Can a young rider and her golden griffin save a world built on clouds? For ten-year-old Lyra, life on the Whispering Crag is all about the wind, the clouds, and the hope of bonding with a powerful griffin. The day her golden hatchling, Skyfire, chooses her, her dreams take flight! Together, Lyra and Skyfire soar through the colorful Glimmerwood and dance along the sharp Wind-Shear Edge, their connection growing stronger with every beat of Skyfire's magnificent wings.

Star Log: Day 100. Base camp is lively. I greet my crewmates and admire their work. We have mastered many skills on our journey, but today brings a new milestone. There have been: one hundred roll calls. One hundred songs. One hundred pledges. One hundred challenging days full of exploration and triumph!

Zak Nine and his Quom friend, Erro, are desperate to get off planet Alcatraz. The boys believe they've finally found a way to freedom when they join up with another prisoner. Together with their new partner, the boys board a small spacecraft and fly off the planet, past the metal moon, and head into space. But when the stars begin to look strange, Zak and Erro realize that something is very wrong. What will happen when the boys learn Planet Alcatraz's biggest secret? Will they ever get to return home?

Traveling by night, Zak Nine and Erro are following a shadowy figure until the mysterious stranger disappears into a cave. The boys decide to follow. Inside they find a maze filled with priceless gems, along with a rough band of escaped criminals. Things go from bad to worse when a squad of Alcatraz guards arrives on the scene.

Zak Nine has been captured and placed in Planet Alcatraz's "Monster Zoo." But this isn't any ordinary zoo. This zoo holds dozens of alien "monsters" who are forced to fight for the entertainment of the prison planet's owners.

Hoping to avoid the Alcatraz guards, Zak Nine and Erro decide to climb down into a deep canyon to hide. But soon, the boys see some huge rock formations that move! Zak and Erro are quickly caught by the giant criminals that have been imprisoned in the deep gorge.

During their last adventure, Zak Nine and Erro found a mapping device in a crashed Prison ship. Following the map, the boys make their way to the Plateau of Leng, a vast desert on Planet Alcatraz. Other than an occasional giant scorpion, the boys seem to be safe on the endless sands until they spring a deadly trap! Huge rocky walls spring up from beneath the sand, grinding against each other and forming into walls, passageways, and stone cages.

Zak Nine and Erro have come up with a brilliant plan to escape. They'll simply hide onboard a prison ship and ride it to freedom on another planet! Unfortunately, the boys don't get far when the ship docks at one of Planet Alcatraz's metallic moons.

Zak Nine and Erro have escaped! But now they find themselves lost in a vast forest of alien birds and deadly plants. Things grow even worse when they hear strange buzzing sounds just above the treetops attack drones! The prison guards are searching for the boys using a flock of remote bots, armed with flame-throwers and sleeping gas! Will the boys outwit the bots and find a way off Planet Alcatraz?

Zak Nine and his friend Erro are on the run! While avoiding a band of patrolling prison guards, the boys meet another escapee who tells them the legend of an abandoned spacecraft. The boys believe that if they can find the ancient ship, they'll be able to fix it and blast off from the Planet Alcatraz. But first, they must cross the Igneous Quag an uncharted swamp full of flame-spitting snakes and hidden geysers of fatal fire!

Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. When his parents abruptly summon him away from school on Earth to join them on Mars, he has no idea he's about to be plunged into deadly interplanetary intrigue. But the ship Don is traveling on is unexpectedly diverted to Venus, where the colony has launched a revolution against Earth's control.

Marius and his fluffy, six-legged co-pilot, Whisk, love exploring the galaxy in their trusty ship, the Star-Skipper. But their latest mission goes terribly wrong when a swirling vortex yanks them out of space and sends them crashing onto Xylos a planet where the storms never stop. Stranded in a world of endless drizzle, whispering gales, and ground-shaking thunder, Marius and Whisk must find a way to repair their ship. Their adventure begins when they meet the Aerians, shy, furry creatures who live in magical villages built high in the giant, indigo trees.

Kult-Hörspiel von Richard Reissmann nach der weltberühmten Comicserie.

Twelve-year-old Orion believes adventure is something you only read about in his grandmother's old books. But when he and his buzzing robot sidekick, Sparky, discover a secret star-chart in the attic, they find a location scrubbed from every map: Fae. Ignoring the "FORBIDDEN" warning, Orion "borrows" his parents' ship and crash-lands on a world of impossible wonders. The planet is wrapped in a glowing lavender fog, with silent cities carved from pearl and forests of giant, glowing mushrooms. But the Fae are real, and they are not the fairies from bedtime stories. The planet is dying.

Nine-year-old twins Viola and Orion have a home like no other. They live in the Ice Spire Library, a glowing tower of frozen light in a city built deep inside an ice bubble on the distant, blue planet of Triton. Their days are spent sliding through crystal tunnels, drinking spicy geyser-cocoa, and listening to the whispers of ancient story-crystals. But their perfect, icy world is about to shatter.

The Universe is going to sleep... but one light is still blinking. In the furthest reaches of the Forbidden Sector, where the stars hum like crystal bells and the nebulae are tangled with tinsel, lives a legend. Most delivery pilots have long since docked their ships for the Great Hibernation, but Neo isn't most pilots. With his clockwork companion, Squeak, and a rust-bucket ship fueled by liquid cocoa, Neo has one final mission to complete before the Triple Suns rise.

When Max discovers an old brass telescope, he finds more than just stars. He finds a secret—a tiny red dot that hums with a mysterious energy, a whisper from across the vast sea of space. This single discovery propels him into the adventure of a lifetime, starting with a forgotten star-chart found in his dusty attic. The chart doesn't just show stars; it shows a path to the legendary Crimson Planet. With his inventive best friend, Maya, by his side, Max builds the Stardust Drifter—a spaceship crafted from a refrigerator box, a sled, and a whole lot of imagination.

Ten-year-old Leo and his eight-year-old sister, Pipa, know only one home: the steady, humming corridors of the Stardust Cruiser. But when their ship is violently pulled from the stars and crash-lands on a mysterious world, their life of quiet safety is shattered. They find themselves on Planet VORTEX, a bizarre land of dizzying rainbow dust, six-legged creatures, and plants that spiral into the sky. It's a world alive with chaotic energy, from fields of dancing tornadoes to rivers that flow uphill.