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...

When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally...

The third book in the Moomin Lands series is a unique new encounter with the cute Moomin family and their many friends. The book includes the stories 'Invisible Child', 'Dad and the Sea', 'At the End of November'.

nne of Green Gables, published in 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is the beloved classic story of an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, who is adopted by the Cuthberts, a family living on Prince Edward Island in Canada. With her wit, charm, and strong spirit, Anne quickly wins the hearts of everyone she meets and learns to navigate the world around her, eventually growing into an independent young woman....

This book by the Spanish writer Ana Pounset is the first in the Red Keds Club series. Four seventh grade friends decide to create their own club - with their own rules and their signature red sneakers, which they promise to wear all the time. One of the girls, unfortunately, has to move with her family to Germany, and her friends miss her incredibly. Suddenly there is an opportunity to visit...

The friends decide to go to a summer camp together, but Frida's trip may be interrupted - her parents do not have the funds for it. The girls cannot allow this, so they set out to earn money on their own. Marta opens an online sweet shop, Frida starts walking dogs, Lucia initiates a dream fair. But will the girls be able to realize everything planned, if the leader of the Fashionable caste...

The 'Ukrzaliznytsia' train rushes through the golden fields. Eva returns home with her mother and new friends from her longest journey. During the full-scale war, the girl, like many Ukrainian children, had to board an evacuation train and go as far as possible from home, fleeing from tanks, rockets and bombs. 'Home by Train' is a sensitive story by Maryana Savka, illustrated by Marta...

'Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?' Dozens of children respond to this peculiar newspaper ad and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it, they...