The Andersons are a normal every day family, who do normal every day things. That is until one rainy Saturday afternoon when the children's trip to the park changes their lives forever.Taking shelter from a storm Wilbur, Bailey, Elliott, and their dog George, hide in an old abandoned building, but once inside they make a discovery that leads to an adventure like no other. Following a series of clues they develop magical powers that allow them to do things they could never do before...

In the grounds of Castlemaine is a peculiar mound, hidden by yew trees. People say it’s the grave of Wild Robert…Heather finds the mound when she tries to escape the hordes of tourists who invade the stately home where she lives.“Wild Robert, I wish you were really under there!” she cries. “You could come out and deal with the tourists!”All of a sudden, there is a smell like earth and strange spices. A voice says, “Did somebody call?”Heather gets her wish, a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “UNPUTDOWNABLE.”—The Washington Post • An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel • A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time • The Inspiration for the HBO Original Series His Dark MaterialsDON’T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO LYRA’S STORY: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW!The spellbinding sequel to the modern fantasy classic The Golden Compass.

It's supposed to be a fun camping trip with your family. But when your sister and you get caught in a terrible thunderstorm, your relaxing vacation becomes an endless struggle to stay alive! Do you have what it takes to save your sister and yourself from unknown dangers? Or will your choices lead to a tragic ending? Put yourself in this adventure and find out. Test your survival skills with outcomes affected by your decisions!

It's the trip of a lifetime, a dream come true. You and your sister are climbing to the summit of Mount Everest. But when you get caught in a terrible blizzard, you find yourself in an endless struggle to stay alive! Do you and your sister have what it takes to save yourselves from the mountain's many dangers? Or will your choices lead to a tragic ending? Put yourself in this adventure and find out! Test your survival skills with outcomes affected by your decisions, and enjoy a thrilling s...

From Guillermo del Toro comes the book that inspired the Netflix Animated Series TROLLHUNTERS!"You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors? It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These ...

Outstanding voice in girls’ fiction.Fifteen-year-old Robyn (the “sensible”) one and her older sister Rachel (anything but!) arrive in Brighton to spend the summer with their estranged Aunt Jackie, who runs a ballgown hire business from her ramshackle multi-storey home. They have been forced to leave their home in Oxford, where they live with their father, because of threats to their safety, the nature of which only gradually becomes apparent.A perfect summer read and a bril...

Live the ultimate high. Pay the ultimate price. The shocking return to YA by the author of SMACK.A new drug is on the street. Everyone's buzzing about it. Take the hit. Live the most intense week of your life. Then die. It's the ultimate high at the ultimate price. Adam thinks it over. He's poor, and doesn't see that changing. Lizzie, his girlfriend, can't make up her mind about sleeping with him, so he can't get laid. His brother Jess is missing. And Manchester is in chaos, contro...

Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Your teacher thinks it'll be good for your class to hang out at the new wax museum in town. Yeah, right! Once you get there your teacher starts blah-blahing about something or other and that’s when you and your friend see the red door.If you decide to check out what's behind door #1, you'll discover the museum owner’s secret for making lifelike sculptures. And it doesn’t look like fun! If you decide to ditch the red door...

Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Being the new kid in school is no picnic. At your old school you had tons of friends, but now you don't even have one. Then you meet Nick. He asks you to join Horror Club. The Horror Club meets in an old mansion known as Bat Wing Hall. It's dark. It's spooky. And it's where your adventure begins. The members of the Horror Club are going on a scavenger hunt. If you join the red team, you find out the truth about your new ...

30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive!You are swimming though the ocean when an explosion rips out from the shoreline and a massive wave flings you close to a giant shark. The shark is stunned, but alive. You don't have much time, and you need to get to shore. Do you keep swimming or do you climb onto the shark's back and try to surf to shore?This is an edge-of-your-seat, seat-of-your-pants survival story. Make the wrong c...

The first thrilling adventure in the brand-new collectible series for young readers from survival expert and Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS.Olly isn't enjoying activity camp. Why should he bother building a shelter or foraging for food with his teammates - he'd rather be at home in the warm and dry, where the sofa and the video games are.But then Olly gets given a compass with a mysterious fifth direction. When he follows it, he's magically transported to a high m...