Isadora Moon loves sunshine — and nighttime. She loves her magic wand — and her black tutu. She loves spooky bats — and Pink Rabbit. Isadora is half-fairy, half-vampire, and she’s special because she is different! Now Isadora’s parents want her to start school, but she’s not sure where she belongs — fairy school or vampire school?

Camping is full of surprises when you're a vampire-fairy! When Isadora Moon and her family go on a camping trip to the beach, they’re just like everybody else. They roast marshmallows and build sand castles and sleep in a tent! But in a magical family, anything can happen. And when Isadora goes on a nighttime adventure, she makes an unusual friend under the sea. . . .

The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future...

Twenty years have passed since Maxim Kammerer's mission on the planet Saraksh. He now works on Earth, at COMCON-2. His latest assignment is to locate the progressor Lev Abalkin, who left Saraksh without permission but ignored the requirement to register on Earth. Kammerer's encounters with Abalkin's acquaintances uncover a secret that could cause serious harm not only to those around him, but...

У этой книги четыре анонимных автора. Но их — волонтеров, живущих в России, которые вывозили и продолжают вывозить мирных жителей Украины из-под бомбежек, — гораздо больше. Все эти годы, что идет война, они действуют: встречают на пропускных пунктах между Россией и Украиной, привозят в безопасные теплые квартиры, где можно выдохнуть, обеспечивают чемоданами, едой и одеждой, а потом провожают...

В один февральский день в каждом доме появляется слон. Огромный. Молчаливый. Непрошеный. Никто не знает, откуда он взялся и зачем пришел. Одни делают вид, что ничего не происходит, другие пытаются разобраться, третьи — пишут об этом в комментариях. Новый роман Саши Филипенко — о страхе и смелости, о любви и отстраненности, о людях, которые столкнулись с тем, что больше их самих, — и...

A reader designed for Russian speakers learning English. Each chapter is followed by a glossary and exercises. Reader is designed for students at the pre-intermediate level.

A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to almost drip off his hands-but no one else can see it. Three friends find a hole in the ground that just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger... And each story is introduced by Stine himself, providing a personal touch sure to delight fans.

Alone in a giant water tank, Liam, holding a camera, watches as a twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered in with him. This is not where he thought his day was going.

Todd loves his basement worm farm. Worms are fascinating creatures--it's just a convenient bonus that they happen to gross out his family. But when Todd starts to find worms in unlikely and unwanted places, like his bed, his toothbrush, and his spaghetti--the tables have turned. Now Todd is the one running scared!

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic amusement park ride accident in an attempt to save a little girl’s life. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by both loved ones and distant strangers.