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As WWI breaks out in Africa, the ape man must avenge a brutal attack on his home, in this 1920 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series.
The violence of World War I has spread into colonial Africa, and while Lord Greystoke-better known as Tarzan-is away from his estate, it is destroyed by German soldiers. When he returns to the burned remains of his home, Tarzan discovers what appears to be the body of his wife, Jane. Brokenhearted and mad...
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Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survivalRalph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful...
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TARZAN THE TERRIBLE continues the adventure begun in TARZAN THE UNTAMED - in that volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume, Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins, Tarzan has spent...
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First published in 1924, "The Box-Car Children" is the beloved children's classic by American grade school teacher and author, Gertrude Chandler Warner. It is the story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, and their adventures living in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The children are having fun while living in the boxcar at first, though several adults in the community are aware of their situation and are keeping an eye...
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In his biggest adventure yet, Tarzan discovers a land of ant-size people-and after getting caught up in their war, is shrunk down to their diminutive stature.
Though chief of the Waziri and lord of a vast African estate, Tarzan has not lost his taste for adventure. While flying a biplane above his beloved jungle, he discovers a mysterious land previously unknown to him: the isolated country of Minuni, inhabited by a race of tiny, warlike people....
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El Laberinto fue solo el comienzo.
No te relajes... lo peor está por venir.
Recuerda. Corre. Sobrevive.
Cuando Thomas y sus amigos sienten que están a salvo, unos gritos desquiciados los despiertan y los enfrentan a una realidad aún más aterradora que la anterior.
Para sobrevivir, deberán emprender una travesía en la que cada desafío los enfrentará a nuevos peligros: calor ardiente, destrucción, un aire irrespirable. Cada paso es una sorpresa...
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A group of merrymaking cousins travel to Texas to spend their annual vacation at the Dude Ranch for a week of trail rides, BBQs, barn dances, roping, and other fun activities. They enjoyed meeting new people, and they were not disappointed at the colorful characters they met while on this vacation. They became friends with the Dude brothers, a pregnant lady, and an extra tall ball-bat-toting woman named Tinker Bell. Last year's vacation to Missouri...
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A summer hike in the New Brunswick woods turns into a nightmare when Shawn and his friends find themselves trapped by a raging forest fire. Now their only chance for survival may be the legendary White Caves...but can they find them in time? Join Shawn, Petra, Craig, Tony, and Hobart the dog--the heroes of Chocolate River Rescue--in their newest wilderness adventure!
9) Lone wolf
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Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
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Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
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To Baree, for many days after he was born, the world was a vast gloomy cavern.
During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan's eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from...
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Perry was your normal average pig, living his life with his colony.
They were always on the move going somewhere but they never knew where. Everything was going fine until one day,when a storm hit them. A mysterious light blinded them and Perry got teleported into a field in the middle of nowhere. Injured and confused, Perry didn't know what to do. Luckily, Alex cameto his aid and took care of him. For a long time everything seemed to be going...
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The beauty of the ocean is quite fascinating. However, it can also be, to some degree, perilous, as one jellyfish will discover. The story is about Jel Jel, a jellyfish that frolicked too close to the shoreline and ended up marooned, in a real-life fish out of water situation, on a scorching day, on dry land. Seem everything was going against him that day; loose sands, low tide, and a very burning sun. But, those were just some of his plights. However,...
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The clan face a dilemma - Billy doesn't want to go on his Walkabout yet and besides, he hasn't even been initiated into a man. Can hardly blame him, they want to use the slice of a knife where no boy wants a knife to go. The spirit of his mother forces the issue with a violent attack by a giant Red kangaroo. She's good like that - helpful. The old Magic Man wants to seal Billy's horrific injuries under the coals of a fire, exactly as he would initiate...
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La heroína de este cuento es Mariella, una joven sirena. Vive con su familia en el fondo marino del que nunca se ha ido. Un día, expresa el deseo de ir a explorar el mundo desconocido del que siempre le han contado sin siquiera acercarse a ella. Después de mucha preparación, deja a sus padres. Durante su viaje, conoce a animales mucho más entrañables que los demás. Gracias a ellos, encontrará las respuestas a sus muchas preguntas. Regresará...
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A daring adventure on Henry Flaglers Over-Sea Railroad!
Twelve-year-old Eddie Malone is living a carefree life swimming and fishing in the Florida Keys in 1912 when suddenly his world is turned upside down. His father, a worker on Henry Flaglers Over-Sea Railroad, is thrown into jail for stealing the railroad payroll. Convinced that he is responsible for his pa's arrest, Eddie sets out for Key West with his faithful dog, Rex, on a daring mission...
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Las tierras mágicas del PIM PAM PUM es el primero de lo que será una colección de tres libros, y narra la historia de Lila la niña de los 4 arcoíris y los hermanos gemelos Magda y Jorgito.
Juntos viajarán a estas tierras mágicas donde hay criaturas increíbles que existen gracias a las visitas secretas de los niños.
Por no respetar las reglas este mundo de fantasía se verá amenazado y así juntos todos tendrán que encontrar la manera de...
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The body of Ben Haversham's Uncle Izzy vanishes and Ben, although he attended the funeral, suspects that his uncle is still alive. He's told that his uncle was working undercover to bring to justice a group of iconoclasts who destroyed the town's monument, the Big Prawn.
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Earth, as we know it, is dying. Natural resources are being depleted to the point that wars are being fought over a water supply. Social structure is breaking down. Every man for himself. The powerful control what little resources still exist. The governments of the world decide to send a number of colonists to a moon just the other side of our solar system. The last valiant attempt to save mankind. This is the story of that moon and its colonists....
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