A story about finding friendship when you''re lonely -and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is the last ...
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don´t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara´s great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. First published in 1898, ''Moonfleet'' is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates and romance, with a place in the literary canon alongside ''Treasure Island'' and ...
A perennial bestseller in the wizarding world and one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts School library, Quidditch Through the Ages contains all you will ever need to know about the history, the rules – and the breaking of the rules – of the noble sport of Quidditch. Packed with fascinating facts, ...
Zemeckisův film je brilantním shrnutím dosavadních režisérových poznatků o možnostech "comicsového" vyprávění. Formálně i obsahově nejméně konvenční z jeho snímků přesvědčuje komediálními gagy i naléhavě patetickým tónem. Jeho hrdinou je prosťáček Forrest Gump, typický obyčejný muž, který od dětství ...
"Need it be said — the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." Times Literary Supplement "A brilliantly ingenious story." Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald "Ingenuity at its height ...
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway''s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...
Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth exciting adventure in Rick Riordan''s bestselling series. Now with a thrilling new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I''ve had my share ...
The definitive 70th anniversary edition of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the world''s most famous diary and ''one of the greatest books of the century''. ''12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never ...
",How I long to sail!", said the tiny snail. The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the ...
This title is second in the "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Still reeling from her terrifying confrontation with the Magister and her brother''''s betrayal, Tessa Gray is drawn ever deeper into the Shadowhunter''''s dark underworld of demons and danger. In a ...
Toddly discovers what a birthday party is like. After he blows out the candles on his cake and makes a wish, his dream comes true.
The fourth volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. But fear ...
Kniha - autor Paul Dowswell, 208 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Zrcadlový text vám přináší napínavý příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce – na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho překlad do češtiny. Ideální čtení nejen na dovolenou, u kterého se pobavíte, ale navíc se procvičíte ...
After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life\''s universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry\''s ...
When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he\''s not alone. He\''s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don\''t know why or how they came to ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku.1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning… When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking ...
It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the circle of huddled, nervous students are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the stage. But outside is the real world - a pitiless, alluring place in which ...
