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From number-one worldwide best-selling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a long-anticipated science-fiction series debut. When SETI finally receives a signal from an alien civilization, what will happen next? A 13-year-old boy, dying of a rare brain disease, is the only one able to hear and decode signals from outer space. SETI confirms it is a real signal. What is the message? How will the world react? And most of all: are the aliens coming?

★著書累計145万部 喜多川泰のデビュー作が待望のジュニア版になって新登場！★幸せと成功を導く【9つの教え】を手に入れろ！世界一わかりやすく「人生を学べる」ファンタジー！14歳の誕生日。おじいちゃんから不思議な本を渡されたサイードは、9人の賢者を探す冒険に出る――【ジュニア版だけの特別なポイント】・著者書き下ろしの「あとがき」を収録！これからの未来をつくる読者の皆さまへ向けて、喜多川泰氏が特別なメッセージを書き下ろし。

Le couronnement de Roiben approche, et Kaye est sûre d'une chose : elle est amoureuse. L'intrépide pixie se déclare devant toute la cour des Termites, contraignant Roiben à l'envoyer loin de lui. Il lui confie une quête, apparemment impossible : elle doit trouver une Fæ capable de mentir. L'aventure de Kaye prend un tour dangereux lorsqu'elle se retrouve aux prises avec la Cour des Seelie.

This 18th entry into the Rick Brant series finds Rick and Scotty on vacation with Rick’s new houseboat, visiting government agent Steve Ames down in Chesapeake Bay. Their plan is to meet Mr. and Mrs. Brant, Barby Brant, and Jan Miller at Steve’s vacation house and float languidly back to...

Space Girl Green was the least confident member of her legendary Space Girl Unit right out of the academy. Of course the universe charged her with saving not just her father’s home world, but a whole pocket universe. Space Girl HQ gave her a flying saucer with a melodious personality, powerful rayguns and told her to go change the galaxy. Perhaps it was a bad idea to visit the destroyed world of Gamalon right off the bat, because a pair of mysterious scientists gave her an epic quest, putting Gamalon’s destiny in her untried hands.

In this 17th science adventure, Rick and Scotty and the Spindrift Science Foundation staff (including Hartson Brant, Hobart Zircon, and Julius Weiss) join forces with South American geoscientists on the resort island of San Luz, off the coast of South America. There, they are faced with the ancient volcano of El Viejo, which shows every sign of getting ready to erupt and consume the entire island in a devastating disaster, like the one that obliterated the island of Krakatoa in 1883.

All the Spindrifters want to do is to locate, quietly dig up and study some ancient native artifacts, including a full-sized, solid-gold skull that is sacred to the Filipino natives. Unfortunately, corrupt government officials want to steal it to sell on the black market, and head-hunting natives want to stop them because unearthing it will desecrate their lands.

Uvula Publishing presents the tenth volume in the Rick Brant Science-Adventure stories-- The Golden Skull. Here Rick Brant and Don Scott leave New Jersey to join Dr. Tony Briotti on an Indiana Jones-style archeological expedition in the Philippines. All the Spindrifters want to do is to quietly dig up and study some ancient native artifacts, including a full-sized, solid-gold skull that is sacred to the Filipino natives.

Anna loves her peaceful world. Even so, she begins her third year at Quentin Academy with bad premonitions. Carlotta flies to Mongolia to rescue six-year-old Inara, a child with a unique and powerful gift and whose family has been killed. Anna and her family want to do everything for Inara's safety, but can they really protect her? Then disaster strikes. During a flight maneuver with the new express carpets, something happens that never happened before—a carpet crashes. Who are the unseen enemies that threaten Anna's world?

As much as Anna would like to live in harmony, a new danger looms in her second year at the Quentin Academy. Lorenzo, Anna's new classmate and friend, recently arrived from Italy with his grandmother. But, Lorenzo's older twin brothers are also studying at the academy, and something about their strange behavior puts Anna on alert. Soon, the inexplicable death of a harmless creature destroys the balance in Anna's peaceful world.

Book 2 in the all-new Science Adventures of Tom & Huck series! Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are back—in fast, funny, science-filled adventures for curious kids! While visiting family in Arkansas, Tom and Huck hear a wild tale about a legendary hog called Haggard Hoofs—and Tom, never one to back down, bets they can catch it. The only problem? Huck’s pretty sure the pig doesn’t exist. What begins as a foolish boast soon turns into a hilarious chase through the Ozarks, as the boys risk their summer—and their friendship—on the unlikeliest hog hunt in Benton County.