The cheerleading squad at Shadyside has always been strong, but now there are rumors that lack of funds may mean the end of cheerleading at Shadyside. That would be a shame for Gretchen Page, who has just transferred from her old school, where she was a star, and is eager to join the squad. There’s only one other girl who stands in her way-rich, spoiled Devra Dalby, who is also trying out for...

Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party-the game of murder. As the guests start dying one by one, Rachel realizes to her horror that she and the other teenagers...

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal...

Alyosha Solnyshkin dreams of the ocean. He dreams of becoming a sailor, and when his grandmother sends him to the city to enter the school, this brave boy arbitrarily leaves for Okeansk. Solnyshkin gets into the crew of the ship 'Give!', where fun and unexpected adventures await him, during which he will learn to always follow the arrow of his compass-heart.

Incredible events are taking place in the Paris Zoo: a one-eyed Polar Wolf and a little African boy silently tell each other stories, one more amazing than the other. In two pupils - a boy's and a wolf's - flash, replacing each other, the snow-covered Tundra, yellow, gray and green Africa. Somewhere in the past, gunshots are heard, screams are heard, the noise of propellers and the howl of...

The book of the Soviet biologist, writer and popularizer of science for children Igor Akimushkin 'Traces of Unseen Animals' will tell about the amazing, previously unknown to science animals that man managed to meet. Some species are indeed recognized as new, while the existence of others is questioned.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

The third book in the bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay!

The fifth book in the beloved, bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in brilliant full color.