Action & Adventure

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake....

In the ninth novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, resident sleuth Teddy Fitzroy is on the case to find a missing elephant and clear his friend of vandalism.

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper 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....

Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? Ben Ripley sure hopes so - and his life may depend on it....

It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. Guts, glory, danger, and sacrifice are all in a day's work for Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security....

In this sixth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies stages a rescue in Rome in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Charlie Thorne.

Picket, Heather, Jo, and your favorite Green Ember heroes are back for a thrilling new adventure. In the days after their arrival at Halfwind Citadel, the friends are caught up in a desperate fight for the cause.

Ben Ripley is recruited for a top secret mission to bring down his nemesis, Murray Hill, once and for all. But when things go horribly wrong, Ben ends up lost in an extremely dangerous wilderness with Murray—and confronting a new, devious enemy—with none of his friends to help him.

Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president....

The City Spies are ready for their next mission—once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can’t. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary....

When Ben gets kicked out of the CIA's spy school, he enrolls with the enemy....

Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, 13-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs to take a shower. But even more so, he and his spy school friends need to come up with a new plan to defeat their enemies, their only clue a key that opens...something....

After camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, Jake and his friends travel to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. Exploring the heart of the dunes, they stumble upon something both unexpected and dangerous....

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen - he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive....

They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth....

The City Spies head to the Big Apple when a credible threat is made to a young climate activist who is scheduled to speak in front of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly.

Thanks to the evidence Ben uncovered in his investigation of the Croatoan, the CIA has tracked his nemesis, Murray Hill, to Central America, where they believe he is boarding the world’s biggest cruise ship, The Emperor of the Seas, on its maiden voyage around the world....

In the eleventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley goes on a rescue mission when one of his own is abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.

In the thirteenth book in Stuart Gibbs’s New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley goes off the grid to eliminate a cybersecurity threat.

Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of SPYDER more than once and knows to be suspicious of anything that seems too good to be true. So when Murray Hill offers to hand over the SPYDER elite, Ben knows there must be something going on. But his hesitation doesn’t stop the assignment....

With SPYDER defeated, Ben Ripley is looking forward to his life getting back to normal, or as normal as possible when you’re a superspy in training. Until someone bombs the CIA conference room next door....

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida....

Ben Ripley’s longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a price on Ben’s head and accused him of being at the center of a conspiracy on the internet. Now Ben finds himself in his greatest danger yet, on the run from both assassins and conspiracy theorists....

Something strange is happening at the Clarksville City Zoo. Late at night, monkeys are scaling the walls and searching the neighborhood—but what are they looking for....

Hank conducts defensive maneuvers against an attacking silver monster bird. But the trouble really begins when Hank is stricken with a terrible case of "Eye-Croserosis"....

When a herd of elephants interrupts the big Friday night football game, the police enlist Teddy and his father to assist them in getting the animals safely back home to the elephant sanctuary. Only when they arrive, their owners realize one of the elephants has gone missing! The lone African elephant, Tanzy, is still out there somewhere.

It’s a cloudy day on the Sacred Kidney playground, but Jake likes it that way—dark and uncertain. For a junior detective like Jake, standing up to bad guys is a piece of cake. After all, she’s the only detective at Sacred Kidney Elementary with a hard-earned badge to her name. But just as Jake and her sidekick Sterling prepare to face off against the biggest bully in school, there’s a scream from inside the library.

Leroy AKA Encyclopedia Brown has a secret. His father may be the most regarded and respected police chief in town, but that's only because the cases he brings home are thoroughly solved by Encyclopedia at the dinner table each night. So Encyclopedia sets up a detective stand in his garage with his best friend and detective partner Sally, willing to help any potential client in need of cracking a case. As it turns out, lots of people in their small town of Idaville are interested in Encyclopedia's uncanny ability to solve even the toughest mystery.

One peaceful summer afternoon, Nestie accidentally crosses the boundary between the real world and a land of magic. But this fairyland is no longer safe. Magic is fading. Light is dimming. And an ancient prophecy has just awakened…

IT'S NOT EASY to keep friends when they find out you can see the dead. Emma hopes she can juggle her gift with making new friends, now that her parents moved her to a haunted town on the East Coast. It was just after her 13th birthday when Emma’s family packed up everything they owned and moved to Seaside Cove to open a Bed and Breakfast in an old plantation house. Emma didn't really want the gift of seeing Earthbound spirits. Her Grandma Helen told her that she would be called on to help them sometimes, but she just didn't know how, so she hoped they wouldn't ask her. But in order to ...

What happens when two brothers discover a lost Emperor Penguin on their beach holiday? Seven-year-old Jon is convinced this family holiday to Phillip Island will be just like every other: sandcastles, sunscreen battles with Mum, and his older brother Alex glued to his phone. But when Jon spots something mysterious moving through the waters of Ventnor Beach, everything changes. What starts as a strange sighting becomes the discovery of a lifetime when an enormous Emperor Penguin emerges from the waves. Miles from its Antarctic home and impossibly out of place on an Australian beach, this ...

Siblings Marlow and Zach Metzler are curious about EVERYTHING – asteroid-bound space probes, pirate ships in the woods, abandoned hotels hidden high in the mountains. Leo, a neighborhood cat, is curious about NOTHING – not pizza slices, not peacock feathers, not even laser pointers (especially not laser pointers).

The Attic Ocean Some secrets are meant to be discovered by those brave enough to look beyond the ordinary. When ten-year-old Ellie Jenkins moves into her late grandmother's mysterious Victorian house by the coast, she expects nothing more than creaky floors and dusty rooms. Instead, she unveils a world that defies imagination—a miniature ocean hidden within the forbidden attic, featuring talking sea creatures, ancient guardians, and magic connecting two worlds. But this enchanted discovery comes with significant responsibility. As the ocean's boundaries blur and threaten both realms, ...

Tony and Tickles live just outside the big city, but their small town is bursting with big trouble. From kangaroo conspiracies to trampoline disasters, every day is another chapter in the chaos of being siblings. One dreams of glory, the other craves quiet—but both have secrets, schemes, and sass to spare. Join this not-so-dynamic duo as they stumble, tumble, and triumph their way through the wildest adventures the Australian countryside can dish out. Buckle up. It’s going to be loud, muddy, and absolutely hilarious.

Maeve Marvelous: The Middle School Witch! A Hilarious Middle Grade Fantasy Book! Maeve Marvelous thought moving to Snugglebrook to live above her grandpa's "Totally Normal" bakery and start middle school would be her biggest challenge. Then her birthday arrives, and suddenly, her life now involves: Magic powers that turn everything into a splash zone (swimming lessons not included) A talking cat named Mortimer who critiques her life choices. A lunch lady who sneezes fire when annoyed (cafeteria pizza day just got WAY more exciting)Plus, someone's stealing every shiny object in town, ...

Dark Space #7 Somewhere between atoms, something is watching her back. Twelve-year-old Lina Chen never meant to unravel the universe. But when she straps on her uncle’s forbidden invention, she shrinks into a glowing, alien world beneath the surface of reality—where atoms orbit like planets and something strange lurks in the silence between. As Lina dives deeper into the layers of scale, she discovers she’s not alone. Something ancient is alive in the Pattern, and it doesn’t want her to leave. With time warping and reality folding around her, Lina must find her way home before she ...

The 5: 00 p.m. rush-hour train ran through Steamville’s subway tunnels. Detective Steamboat Willie Mickey was riding home from a long day at work when he spotted smoke leaking from the back car.

¿Y si solo tu magia pudiera resolver el enigma? Marcus y sus amigos han recibido un encargo desde la lujosa mansión de Villa Cuervo. Es allí donde conocen a los Krepúsculo, una familia muy distinguida que está a punto de heredar la fortuna de su bromista tío Igor. Sin embargo, alguien parece dispuesto a todo para dejarlos fuera del testamento. ¿Podría ser un fantasma?

In this fifth book in The Woodstock Irregulars series, Slim and Dean visit Slim's great-uncle Jonas Lorens' farm during summer vacation for some fishing and swimming. Slim has another agenda. He wants to catch a ghost that's been seen near his Grandpa Nelson's abandoned farmhouse up Plum Run near LaFarge, Wisconsin, the same log cabin that Slim was born in. There have been reported sightings of a mysterious light on the hill above the farmhouse, and that added up to one more case for The Woodstock Irregulars. The problem is, Dean is scared of ghosts and doesn't even want to talk about them....

Becca Soloway’s perfect summer goes up in smoke when her mom flees a looming divorce by dragging Becca to a Montana resort. To make matters worse, her mom’s hasty booking lands them not at a spa, but an aging dude ranch called Far Away. Becca is miserable until she meets the wrangler’s son, Jon, who shows her what might be the first clue to a century-old mystery: the lost treasure of a Robin Hood-like outlaw known as Pearlhandle Pete.

Aiden, Kaelyn, and Lepitot Ravenstone compete in the Wizard Duels, the monthly tournament meant to train them for battle, though they can't imagine anything bad ever happening in Merwell. Aiden is a thirteen-year-old wizard who never tries too hard, but still wants to be a great wizard someday. He is stuck in the shadow of his twin sister, Kaelyn, who is bound and determined to be the youngest witch ever admitted to Wizwitch University. Lepitot, the youngest, has no magical abilities whatsoever, but can brew potions better than anyone.

Spannung pur: Das ultimative Abenteuer mit JELP! Die perfekte Mischung aus Spannung und Rätselspaß Begleite Jonas, Elias, Leni und Paule – die Detektiv-Freunde von JELP – auf einer aufregenden Reise voller Geheimnisse, versteckter Schätze und kniffliger Rätsel. Ideal für junge Abenteurer zwischen 10 und 16 Jahren, die echte Teamarbeit und spannende Wendungen lieben. Was dich erwartet: Fesselnde Geschichten rund um die mystische Burg Eulenfels. Rätsel und Geheimnisse, die zum Mitmachen einladen. Charaktere, die dich inspirieren und begeistern.

When a curious little seal named Danny hears a tale about a magical light that can take fear away forever, he sets out to find it. By his side is Corey, a clever red crab who doesn’t believe in fairy tales—but refuses to let his best friend go alone. Together, they dive into the unknown. From glowing jellyfish forests to silent, shadowy depths, Danny and Corey discover that some lights aren’t found… they’re made—by helping others, holding on in the dark, and believing in yourself when it matters most.

Have you ever believed in magic? Deep within this whispering forest, where sunlight filters through ancient trees and shadows dance like playful sprites, the line between reality and dreams grows wonderfully thin. It's a place where anything feels possible. Here, we meet two unlikely friends: Conner, a thoughtful kitten, and Danny, a cheerful panda cub. They are about to embark on an exciting quest, seeking a whispered legend, a miracle – the rare Red Ping berry, rumored to grant extraordinary courage to anyone who eats it.

In a world buried in silence and scrap, a small rabbit wakes up every day to clean what’s left. She doesn’t know what she’s looking for. Only that it matters she keeps looking. Until one morning, she finds a mechanical fox, long-forgotten and barely alive—a creature built for tasks he’d rather forget. He doesn’t know who he is anymore. Only that something inside him still wants to protect.