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Discusses the beauty, variety, importance, and miniature world of insects.

This book discusses zombies, the walking dead or near-dead, bodies without souls, in fact and fiction, and such related phenomena as golems and animated mummies.

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart.

Mr. Karp pushed open the trap door and disappeared into the square of light. I went in after, emerging in the sink room of his little apartment. I saw the little refrigerator, the sink. A bed with a night table and lamp and a neat pile of The Drip. The record player had a few other things. But it was the other room that I wanted to see, and when I looked at Mr. Karp, he nodded and motioned for me to fo through the archway. And as soon as I went through,...

Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.

Frankie was a completely normal pet goldfish ...until Tom's evil-scientist big brother, Mark, tried to murder him with toxic gunge! Luckily Tom and his best friend Pradeep shocked Frankie back to life with a battery, and he's been their zombified fishy friend ever since. When Pradeep and Tom take Frankie for a sleepover at the museum, history really does come to life as their evil big brothers try to reanimate the cursed Cat of Kings mummy. Dodging...

"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--

After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde go into hiding. They must learn to master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. When they receive a sign from Number Five -- a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol -- they know they are close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too...