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Chrissie the Wish Fairy has a very important job - each year, she comes to the human world to hide her three magical wish items so that Christmas wishes come true. She loves her visits, but this year it's not entirely fun - she has to protect her magic objects from the goblins! Jack Frost is eager to get his hands on the items and make some wishes himself. Can Rachel and Kirsty come to Chrissie's aid before it's too late?

Mandy Hope loves animals more than anything else. She knows quite a bit about them too: both her parents are vets and Mandy helps out in their surgery, Animal Ark. Blackie, James's Labrador, disturbs a family of hedgehogs and all mayhem breaks loose. The mother breaks her leg and the Hunter's next-door-neighbour kidnaps the babies. Now Mandy and James's mission is to find a way to safely release the hedgehogs back into the wild.

When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school, and all of London...but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her training and skills to the test in this highly anticipated conclusion of the rousing, intriguing, and always polished New York Times best-selling Finishing School series!

Listeners get a chance to participate in James Patterson's wildly successful Middle School series in this interactive book featuring more than 80 hilarious anecdotes from dueling siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian - plus dozens of fun-filled activities!

In this seventh Middle School episode, Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, where he's now being forced to take "special" classes.... He also finds himself joining the school's football team - alongside his main tormenter, Miller the Killer! But Rafe has grand plans for a better year: First he decides to start a supersecret art project that's sure to rock the school.

Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife, that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house, Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star....

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning.

Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "it" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder.

Animals always come first for Mandy, and at Animal Ark - her parents' busy veterinary surgery - she is always making new friends. The only thing Mandy likes about Susan Collins is Prince - her pony. Could Susan's determination to win at show jumping have serious consequences for Prince?

Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp - until he finds out it's a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger-Eater, who puts up with endless teasing from the other kids. Rafe soon realizes there's more to a person than a nickname, though, and Booger-Eater might be the kind of friend you want on your side when the boys from the Cool Cabin attack.

During a semester in the wilderness, 16-year-old Sib expects the tough outdoor education program and the horrors of dorm life, but friendship drama and an unexpected romance with popular Ben Capaldi? That will take some navigating. New girl Lou has zero interest in fitting in, or joining in. Still reeling from a loss that occurred almost a year ago, she just wants to be left alone. But as she witnesses a betrayal unfolding around Sib and her best friend Holly, Lou can't help but be drawn back into the land of the living.

When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind...

Hallo, ich bin Cubanty Kuscheltier! Ich erzähle dir... ganz ruhig... und entspannend... Gutenachtgeschichten zum Einschlafen. Besonders gern erzähle ich Traumreisen, bei denen du zufrieden und beglückt einschlafen kannst. Meine Traumreisen enthalten verschiedene Entspannungstechniken, wie zum Beispiel die entspannende Wirkung von tiefem Ausatmen und Elemente aus dem autogenen Training. So werden wir während der Geschichte immer ruhiger und müder.

Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy. Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners. Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters, she learns that there may be more to a school trip to London than is apparent at first.

It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot he calls E—for "Error". Sammy's no stranger to robots—his house is full of a colorful cast of them. But this one not only thinks it's Sammy's brother... it's actually even nerdier than Sammy. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square?

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, South Dakota, in fact, are direct descendants of either Thor or Loki, including Matt's classmates Fen and Laurie. When the rune readers reveal that the monsters of Ragnarok are coming and kids will stand in for the gods in the final battle, Matt can hardly believe it. Matt and his friends must race to put together an unstoppable team to prevent the end of the world.

Unser Leben ist in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten hektischer und schneller geworden. Zu viele Informationen, volle Terminkalender, hohe Anforderungen und zu wenig Zeit für Ruhepausen führen oft zu Stress. Dies bekommen leider auch schon kleine Kinder zu spüren. Fantasiereisen bieten eine tolle Möglichkeit, ihnen diese Ruhepausen zu geben, neue Kraft zu tanken und die vielen durcheinander fliegenden Gedanken zu sortieren.

On a visit to the US things take a strange turn for 12-year-old Ajay when, completely at random and totally by accident, he is sworn in as the new president. Well, I guess he can't be any worse than that guy who had the job before him, right? Wrong. It's quite easy for power to go to your head, and Ajay, overwhelmed by it all, goes rogue. Soon he's too busy ordering sparkly capes and enforcing the new national spider plan to spot the dastardly plot unfolding right under his nose.

Marinette und Adrien sind zwei ganz normale Schüler - aber nur fast. Der Unterschied ist: Bei der kleinsten Bedrohung von Paris werden sie zu Ladybug und Cat Noir. Ihre Mission: Die Akumas des mysteriösen Hawk Moth fangen, der die Pariser in Bösewichte verwandelt. Das nette Mädchen Marinette ist verliebt in Adrien, doch Adriens Herz schlägt für Ladybug. Obwohl die beiden Helden ein Team bilden, wissen weder Marinette noch Adrien, das sich hinter dem jeweils anderen Cat Noir und Ladybug verbergen.

Animals always come first for Mandy, and at Animal Ark - her parents' busy veterinary surgery - she is always making new friends. Andi doesn't want to give up her donkey, Dorian, but her family is moving into a smaller house, and there's no room for him. Dorian, however, has other ideas! Can Mandy and James help their sutbborn old friend?