Showing results by publisher "SAGA Egmont" in Literature & Fiction

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Kara is starting the school year without her best friend, Eden — who’s now way too busy with her new boyfriend. Enter Romilly: a girl from her year with no friends. Kara finds herself drawn to her but the more Kara hangs around with Romilly, the more unsettling things start to happen. There's the break into her locker... the silent cold calls... and more. But can Kara be sure it's Romilly who is derailing her life? One thing is for sure. Someone is targeting Kara, and if she doesn't work out why, who knows what they will do next...

Sowohl Aster als auch Will wurden mit einem grausamen Fluch belegt. Ihre Suche nach einem Heilmittel führt sie zur Burg Grim, wo niemand ist, wer er zu sein scheint. Bei mörderischen Festessen und extravaganten Bällen muss Aster ihre Waffen stets bereithalten und sich ihren Gefühlen stellen, um herauszufinden, auf wen sie sich verlassen kann, bevor die tickende Uhr ihres Fluchs abläuft.

Aufs Landleben hat Nell nun wirklich keine Lust. Doch als ihr Vater und seine neue Freundin ein Haus auf dem Land kaufen, hat die 15-Jährige keine andere Wahl: Sie muss umziehen. Zum Glück gibt es in der Nähe einen Reiterhof. Auf "Dreililien" findet Nell schnell neue Freunde und entdeckt ihre Liebe zu Pferden. Und dann ist da noch Jörn, der Sohn des Gutshofbesitzers. Immer wenn Nell ihn sieht, kribbelt es gewaltig im Bauch. Das Landleben findet sie auf einmal gar nicht mehr so schlimm.

Every student in the Gifted class harbours a secret, but none is as enigmatic as Carter Street. No one knows his real name, or why he's even there – he never speaks, offering only a blank stare. He never speaks, but the other students suspect that, like them, something is going on behind Carter's blank stare. What they don't realise is that Carter's mystery is far more dangerous than anything they could imagine.

Cute, athletic Ken's life takes a ghostly turn after a football accident leaves him hearing the dead. It's an unwelcome gift, but one he can't escape. Desperate for answers, he attends a séance after receiving an anonymous invitation, and a convincing medium tempts him to reveal his secret. Exposing his secret means terrible danger, and only his mysterious "gifted" classmates, who share abilities he's yet to understand, can stop him from falling into a perilous trap.

Klara ja Rose ovat sydänystäviä. Heillä on ystäväkaulakoru ja he aikovat pukeutua prinsessoiksi iltapäiväkerhon naamiaisiin. Mutta sitten luokalle tulee Julia ja kaikki muuttuu... "K niinku Klara on helppolukuinen kirjasarja Klara-tytöstä ja hänen ystävistään. Kirjat käsittelevät ystävyyttä, koulua ja kasvamista (ja vähän rakkauttakin), ja ne sopivat kaikille päähenkilön ikäisille lukijoille." Line Kyed Knudsen on syntynyt Kööpenhaminan esikaupungissa vuonna 1971 ainoana lapsena. Jo nuorena hän rakasti näyttelemistä ja laulamista.

Rosa ja Julia menevät Maloun luokse yöksi. Klara ei saa lähteä mukaan, koska hän on sairas. Hän ei myöskään saa lähteä pulkkamäkeen. Ja kun hän vihdoin on terve, niin lumi on sulanut. Saako hän nyt mennä yöksi Maloun luokse? Tämä on neljäs Klara-kirja. "K niinku Klara on helppolukuinen kirjasarja Klara-tytöstä ja hänen ystävistään. Kirjat käsittelevät ystävyyttä, koulua ja kasvamista (ja vähän rakkauttakin), ja ne sopivat kaikille päähenkilön ikäisille lukijoille." Line Kyed Knudsen on syntynyt Kööpenhaminan esikaupungissa vuonna 1971 ainoana lapsena.

Shy, dreamy Emily Sanders has a gift for seeing the future, but her premonitions aren't always quite right, and her classmates usually don't take her seriously. As Emily battles to master her erratic visions, they begin to sharpen, revealing a looming danger to her school. Soon, her skeptical peers find themselves facing an inescapable crisis, forced to rely on the girl they once ignored.

When the past refuses to rest, danger awakens. Haunted by her sister Luisa's sudden death a year prior, Skye's life is upended once more when she is sent to a summer camp for teens grappling with loss. But the hope for healing shatters when Skye starts receiving eerie text messages - allegedly from Luisa herself. As the lines between past and present blur, Skye knows the past can't be avoided.

Unravelling the truth, one loop at a time. When Spence witnesses his classmate, Clara, die in what looks like a tragic accident at a house party, he is caught in a flicker in the fabric of time. Waking up to relive the same day again and seeing Clara alive and well, Spence realizes he has been granted a second chance and is determined to prevent the terrible events of the party. To escape the time loop, he has to re-evaluate everything he previously took for granted and find the courage to call out his own and others' complicity in events that marked the life and death of Clara Hart.

What if the one person you could talk to was also the one person that you were battling against? In this unforgettable and uplifting story, 14-year-old Max is consumed by Ana - also known as anorexia, his eating disorder. And as Max writes to Ana every day, Ana feeds on his fears, encouraging him to lose more and more weight. But when Max’s brother gifts him a geocache for Christmas, Max soon discovers a new world and way of conversation.

"El dragón y el unicornio han llegado... El dragón y el unicornio están aquí...". La noticia corre como la pólvora entre los idhunitas contrarios a la tiranía de Ashran el Nigromante y crecen así las esperanzas de que la ansiada profecía se cumpla y el mundo de Idhún sea liberado.

Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them: A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall.

Meadowbrook Middle School's Queen of Mean, 13-year-old Amanda Beeson, awakens in the body of her favourite target: Tracey Devon. Forced to experience the neglect she once inflicted, Amanda soon uncovers Tracey's startling secret—the ability to turn invisible. Trapped in Tracey's life, Amanda finds herself in a bizarre "gifted" class, and it becomes clear that at Meadowbrook, the definition of "gifted" has a whole other meaning. Can Amanda rescue her one-time target from obscurity and get her own life back on track?

Así comienza esta famosa obra que narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capitán Ahab, junto a Ismael - quien narra la historia- y el arponero Quiqueg, en la mítica persecución de la gran ballena blanca. La venganza, la locura, la lucha contra el destino, y la arrolladora fuerza de la naturaleza, son los temas principales de esta novela de aventuras que relata la lucha del capitán Ahab y su terrible obsesión por vengarse de la enorme ballena que lo privó de su pierna.

Cuando Tabit, estudiante de último año en la Academia, recibe el encargo de pintar un portal para un humilde campesino, no imagina que está a punto de verse involucrado en una trama de intrigas y secretos que podría sacudir los mismos cimientos de la institución. Los pintores de la Academia de los Portales son los únicos que saben cómo dibujar los extraordinarios portales de viaje que constituyen la red de comunicación y transporte más importante de Darusia.

Two boys, one struggle. A new family, an uncovered secret. Tommy and Ryan are as different as they come. Tommy is a young offender, he’s tough and he’s cool. Ryan is a good student, well-behaved, and definitely not cool. Forced to become a family, the two discover their shared dyslexia and develop an unlikely friendship. As Ryan helps Tommy to read, a secret is revealed that will change their lives forever. Prize-winning Malcolm Duffy's third novel explores the joys and challenges of dyslexia in a story full of his hallmark heart and humour.

Die junge Sandra ist Azubi bei einer Bank, doch sie findet ihren Alltag dort schrecklich langweilig. Doch dann bekommt sie die Chance ein Teil des Unternehmens "The Deep" zu werden. Dort wird sie Taucherin in einem DelfinTeam, in diesem Fall mit dem eigenwilligen Delfinweibchen Caruso als Partnerin. Für das Unternehmen erfüllen sie Aufträge in aller Welt. Ihr erster Einsatz lässt auch nicht lange auf sich warten: sie sollen dem Bergungsschiff Antares bei der Bergung eines Wracks vor der Küste Südamerikas helfen.

Luciana, 17 años, está en coma por haber ingerido una pastilla de éxtasis. Es "el día siguiente". Mientras sus amigos se preguntan qué ha pasado, Eloy, el chico que la ama, busca desesperado al camello que le vendió la pastilla para tratar de salvarle la vida. Sólo analizando qué contenía la droga sabrán los médicos a qué se enfrentan.

"Captains Courageous" is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition.