Bryan was 10 when his brother, Adam, just . . . disappeared. That was five years ago, and now Bryan is the only one who seems to remember what happened.Until he meets two others with their own unsolved mysteries. It seems that Adam isn’t the first to disappear. Someone or something is after the kids in their neighborhood.The adults can’t hear it, and they can’t see it or feel it—but the kids can. And it all comes back to the skipping rhyme that every child in town knows by ...

Trixie Belden and her best friend Honey are exploring an old gatehouse when they unearth a diamond hiding in the dirt. Has a jewel thief come to Sunnyside? No secret can stay buried long when detective Trixie Belden is on the case!Trixie Belden loves to investigate, and this time, she and her best friend, Honey, have their sights set on the old run-down gatehouse. No one has touched the building in years, making it the perfect headquarters for their new detective a...

AVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs.She’s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life.Or so she thinks.That is, until a mysterious man offers her a way out of having to donate steam. A way to escape the corrupt government of Dom...

It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless game for kids - and nobody ever died from a game.But it's not a game to Bryan. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself that it was his imagination, that the Devil's Footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam. But Adam's sti...

Jake's mobile is going wrong. It's sending weird texts to his friends. Then they start appearing on his phone - from himself. Then the voice messages begin. A girl is trapped in a storm drain, begging him for help. But the messages delete as soon as he hears them. Finally he gets a live call from her, and he knows he has to track her down. Will itbe too late for the girl - or for Jake?Highly readable, exciting books that take the struggle out of reading, Wired

Alice Carroll hardly remembers life before the plague. When the undead first crawled from their graves, it was like a nightmare. When they killed her mother, the nightmare became shockingly real. Now her sister Dinah has contracted the 'un-deadly' virus and without a cure, soon she'll be worse than dead.She'll be Momerath.To save her sister, Alice must leave the safety of the Sector and venture into Momerath territory in search of an antidote - if it exists. Chasing a rumor...

Unwilling to face the bullies at school, 15-year-old Gail Scott has become an expert in the art of hiding, but it is this very evasion that proves problematic when a tornado strikes. Gail finds herself inexplicably transported to an unfamiliar land with no easy way to get back. When she joins up with other wanderers, it becomes increasingly clear that reality as she knew it has ceased to exist.

Becoming a creature made her dangerous. Becoming more could turn her into someone else’s weapon.Plagued by nightmares, Lyn really needs a full night’s sleep and to come to terms with being one of the top three predators in a world where creatures exist in the open.But when her boyfriend teams up with her bully and forces her to acknowledge both sides of her parentage, Lyn realizes she’s more than just a predator and it might cost her freedom.