Ergebnis für "Ma" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Brystal Evergreen liebt Bücher - doch in ihrer Heimat dürfen Mädchen und Frauen nicht lesen. Als sie trotzdem an ein geheimnisvolles Buch gerät, ändert sich ihr Leben: Brystal erfährt, dass sie magische Fähigkeiten besitzt. Sie wird an der Akademie der charismatischen Madame Weatherberry aufgenommen, wo sie in guter Magie ausgebildet wird. Aber auch diese Gemeinschaft kennt Unterdrückung: Eine Hexe unterwirft die Menschen mit böser Zauberkraft. Und nur eine hat die mächtige Gabe, sie aufzuhalten: Brystal Evergreen!

In Search of Hua Ma is one of a series of novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. The breakthrough level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese.

Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring. But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual secret...they use time travel to plunder the future for wonders. Together with her friends, Konstantin and Aidan, and a clockwork cuckoo, Luna boards the Time Train. Luna and her friends travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York...the RMS Titanic.

"Kyllähän sinä sen tiedät. Ei töihin voi lapset tulla. Päivähoitoon meno on sinun työtäsi." Rellu piti sitä aivan tavallisena pyyntönä, mutta äiti ei suostunut. Eihän äiti edes huomaisi, jos hän tulisi mukaan töihin. Entä jos Rellu muuttuisi aivan pieneksi, niin pieneksi ettei äiti tosiaan huomaisi häntä? "Mä tuun mukaan" on Raili Mikkasen lastenkirja, jossa yhden päivän ajan asiat näyttävät erilaiselta kuin yleensä. Rellun jännittävä seikkailu on opettavainen sekä lapsille että aikuisille.

Me'ma and the Great Mountain is about a little girl named Me'ma who lives in an oppressed village called Sunken Creek. Faced with removal, Me'ma brings to focus her extraordinary ability to see ghoulish characters who try to help her in overcoming the nightmare she and her people are facing from an evil tyrant.

A girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. There, given the name "Evie," she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drill sergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies.

Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she's just the youngest, only good for keeping watch while they carry out daring heists. Desperate to prove her worth, Jude decides to steal valuable magic from the fanciest house in town. But Jude's stolen prize was protected by a curse which threatens to wreak havoc on the family business.

In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarök that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters - wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds - all bent on destroying the world. But the gods died a long time ago. Matt Thorsen knows every Norse myth, saga, and god as if it was family history - because it is family history. Most people in the modern-day town of Blackwell, in fact, are direct descendants of either Thor or Loki, including Matt's classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke. But knowing the legends and completely believing them are two different things.

Kascia Thorapple Custod has done the unthinkable. She betrayed her Custod duty, her father, her former life for a man she can't even be sure she'll win in the end, a man she is still unsure she can trust: the man she came to kill. But was that the right choice? Kascia still isn’t convinced. The truth is the taxes that are slowly killing her people are still in place and she cannot justify it even to herself why.

It’s Charlie’s first day at high school. His blazer is too big and his shoes are too small, but that’s the least of his worries. He’s been missed off the class lists and is now enrolled in a new school called Brittle’s Academy with a magical and mysterious head teacher. But to stay at Brittle’s, Charlie must pass one of the tests...otherwise he’ll be sent to Oblivion!

Luna, Konstantin and Aidan travel to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922 where an Egyptologist called Harold Carter is about to discover Tutankhamun's mummy. The time thieves have twenty-four hours to find out where Carter plans to dig and get to Tutankhamun first. But they find themselves grappling with the uncertainty of a world poised between two world wars and all the while a curse that they created seems to be taking on a life of its own.

Bianca’s father forbids it, but when a mysterious pirate drifts into town and tells the tale of mermaids and mermicorns, she can’t resist the urge to explore the seashore. When Bianca forms a friendship with one of Neptune’s daughters, she’s taken on the underwater adventure of a lifetime. But things go horribly wrong. Can Bianca tame the Mermicorn and escape the clutches of an underwater evil? 

This collection of heartwarming, exciting, and inspiring stories is perfect for any young girl who loves adventure, courage, determination, and learning important life lessons.

It was an ordinary day in the ordinary life of Henry and Ralph: two brothers whose life existed for mischief and mayhem. Get up, make a mess, and go to school. But today was not an ordinary day. It started with the Mississippi River and something that should not exist. And then it invaded the school: a monster. A monster that adults don’t see and don’t believe in. 

“Take him and run.” The last words of Jake’s mother urged him to save his brother. Jake and Louie get thrown into the outside world, where Jake learns his skill with a sword can save their lives, and Louie, gifted with elemental magic, soon learns his magic is part of something much bigger: a world of spirits that wage a war of their own. The necrom are after Louie. They only way the necrom can increase their numbers is to capture and possess more adepts. After centuries of the necrom pillaging, adepts are scarce. The necrom want Louie and won’t stop until they capture him.

A triumphant victory over the witches has proven that Princess Cadet Evie really does belong at Pennyroyal Academy. News of her heroism has traveled far and wide - inspiring a kingdom of grateful citizens and, when the new term starts, a wave of fresh Academy recruits. While it's good to be returning to the academy as a second-class cadet, things are not as they should be. Evie witnesses the vicious attack of an innocent woman - by a trio of princesses.

Un vecchio lampione è giunto alla fine della sua vita lavorativa. Ha avuto una lunga vita e molte persone lo conoscono. Perciò tutti gli amici vengono a fargli visita nella sua ultima notte in servizio. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) è stato uno scrittore, poeta e artista danese. È celebre la sua letteratura per bambini; tra le sue fiabe più amate si citano "I vestiti nuovi dell’imperatore", "La sirenetta", "L'usignuolo", "Il soldatino di stagno", "La regina delle nevi", "Il brutto anitroccolo" e "La piccola fiammiferaia".

Trigger, the Chihuahua private detective, needs a little R&R. But, no sooner does his retreat begin before he’s pulled into a new case - one with an eerie connection to his last one. This time, though, things take a disturbing turn - the would-be client is murdered! Now, Trigger is hot on the trail of the most dangerous foe he’s ever faced. If he doesn’t unravel the mystery quickly, he may find himself the next target of the brazen killer. Can he solve the case before the murderer strikes again?

Bullies rule in Princess Molly’s town. And Princess Molly is afraid of the bullies. How can scarecrow and road-builder Lucas conquer the bullies in the town? Can they change the town to a kind and caring town? A town where scarecrows are loved and bullies never enter?

Are scarecrows creepy? Why do scarecrows live? How long have scarecrows been hanging around? This audiobook will give you the answers to these questions and more...like how to build a scarecrow...and how to be a scarecrow. Happy scarecrowing...muahahaha...