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The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton. Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans. (Wasimbu's father Muviro, first mentioned in this story,...
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First published in 1924, "The Box-Car Children" is the beloved children's classic by American grade school teacher and author, Gertrude Chandler Warner. It is the story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, and their adventures living in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The children are having fun while living in the boxcar at first, though several adults in the community are aware of their situation and are keeping an eye...
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To Baree, for many days after he was born, the world was a vast gloomy cavern.
During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan's eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from...
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El Laberinto fue solo el comienzo.
No te relajes... lo peor está por venir.
Recuerda. Corre. Sobrevive.
Cuando Thomas y sus amigos sienten que están a salvo, unos gritos desquiciados los despiertan y los enfrentan a una realidad aún más aterradora que la anterior.
Para sobrevivir, deberán emprender una travesía en la que cada desafío los enfrentará a nuevos peligros: calor ardiente, destrucción, un aire irrespirable. Cada paso es una sorpresa...
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In this 1921 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series, the ape man discovers a lost world of dinosaurs where his beloved Jane is being held captive.
When World War I broke out across the African colonies, an attack on Tarzan's estate led him to believe his wife Jane had been killed by Imperial German soldiers. But after a months-long rampage of vengeance, he learns she is in fact still alive-he only need find her. Before long, his search will...
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In his biggest adventure yet, Tarzan discovers a land of ant-size people-and after getting caught up in their war, is shrunk down to their diminutive stature.
Though chief of the Waziri and lord of a vast African estate, Tarzan has not lost his taste for adventure. While flying a biplane above his beloved jungle, he discovers a mysterious land previously unknown to him: the isolated country of Minuni, inhabited by a race of tiny, warlike people....
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El esperado final de la trilogía El tiempo de las mentiras se terminó... Thomas no puede confiar en CRUEL. La organización le robó sus recuerdos y lo encerró en el Laberinto. Luego lo dejó al borde de la muerte, en el Desierto. Y lo separó de los Habitantes, sus únicos amigos. Ahora CRUEL asegura que el tiempo de las mentiras ha terminado. Con toda la información que reunió gracias a las Pruebas, está en condiciones de avanzar en la cura...
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth adventure in the saga of the jungle lord and features both one of the series most celebrated locations, the lost city of Opar, as well as one of its most celebrated characters, the ruthless, obsessed and fatally beautiful La of Opar.
Seeking to make off with some of the lost city of Opar's treasures, Tarzan survives an earthquake only to take a blow to the head and be stricken with partial amnesia, leaving...
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A summer hike in the New Brunswick woods turns into a nightmare when Shawn and his friends find themselves trapped by a raging forest fire. Now their only chance for survival may be the legendary White Caves...but can they find them in time? Join Shawn, Petra, Craig, Tony, and Hobart the dog--the heroes of Chocolate River Rescue--in their newest wilderness adventure!
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Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.
No phone. No Internet. And not a single word from Logan.
Maddie tells herself it's okay. After all, she's the most popular girl for twenty miles in any direction. She has...
12) The capture
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"Fourteen escaped and found their way to a new territory, but Book, Hope, and Cat can't settle into their new free life knowing the rest of the Less thanks and Sisters are still imprisoned. Now the Teens must retrace their steps to save the others and destroy the compound. But the path back is filled with even more heart-pounding danger--as motives are questioned and relationships tested"--
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Perry was your normal average pig, living his life with his colony.
They were always on the move going somewhere but they never knew where. Everything was going fine until one day,when a storm hit them. A mysterious light blinded them and Perry got teleported into a field in the middle of nowhere. Injured and confused, Perry didn't know what to do. Luckily, Alex cameto his aid and took care of him. For a long time everything seemed to be going...
14) Vitamin Screen
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We have all heard it many times in our lives. Get off your phone! You spend too much time on your phone! But for Will Hadding and his family and friends, being on their phone is the only way to survive. Will's extraordinarily mediocre life is just fine with him. But for his parents who work so hard to give him and his sister more, life couldn't get better once they win the Purquility Lottery.
Winning the coveted prize means a promise of a disease-free...
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A CHILD, A YOUTH, AN ADULT
LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, QUEST...
What is life? Are there any other worlds?, Who am I?
All this is combined in the work, "Talking to the stars", turning fantasy into reality through its character "Pipilet Mandala", a humanoid snail, who has crossed space and come to Earth as a "Universal Correspondent."
Through the different dialogues, not only will you discover new horizons and concepts of life, but you will also, feel like...
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Kayla's main project in the group's Minecraft base is the map wall, and while she's filling out her third map, she comes across something special: a desert temple! Excited, she returns to enlist her sister Jaz to help with the adventure. Jaz, however, isn't nearly so sure she wants any kind of adventure that includes dangerous falling sand, prickly cacti, husk zombies that can attack in daylight, and explosive TNT traps. Still, the sisters will need...
19) The Missing K
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Climb aboard the staircase train
To get it moving use your brain
Full steam ahead to your destination
You can go anywhere with imagination…
A big brother and his little sister are bored at home on a rainy day, until they climb aboard their staircase train and are taken on a venturesome journey where they come face to face with a dinosaur, are captured by pirates, rescued by a pterodactyl, join forces with bears and sent on a mission to save...
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Every orphan needs a dad, so why not use Billy's? He's in the bush somewhere, so Billy leads his new friends into the never–never to find him: nine young shoeless orphans, ten if you include Amber, plus four dogs and a baby kangaroo.
What could possibly go wrong? How about a kidnapping? A spear–pointed stand–off with the police? Or what about a run–in with a dangerous gang?
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