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Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

How do you outwit a twit? What happens when a magic finger turns the hunter into the hunted? Can Billy help the tiny minpins who live in the trees defeat the Gruncher once and for all?

Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief--it's Fantastic Mr. Fox!

One of the greatest sports figures of all time salutes his heroes and takes us inside the game as few others can.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war.

The Amber spyglass brings the intrigue of The golden compass and The subtle knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His dark materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.

Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less rel

Throughout Maya Angelou's life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role.

Stephen Hawking brings us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where truth is often stranger than fiction, to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe.

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing.

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

Don't leave Earth without this hilarious international bestseller about the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow ...

Here is the highly anticipated second installment of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy, begun with the critically acclaimed "The golden compass".

Lyra and Pantalaimon (now a pine-marten) are back at Oxford. But, their peace is shattered by Ragi, the daemon of the witch Yelena, who is searching for a healing elixir to cure his witch.