An act of defiance that will either kill her or change her life forever... Sixteen year old Makayla Summerlin's life with her drug-addled mom and skeezy boyfriend was hard, really hard, but it was hers! She barely remembers the grandfather she now has to live with. Completely uprooted, Makayla feels exactly how little control she has over anything — until she looks at her grandfather's sailboat and suddenly it seems like the perfect escape from...

1. If you win, you survive. 2. If you lose, you and everyone you love slowly starve to death. Years before twelve-year-old Jesse was born, everyday life tipped into this dystopia when firestorms burned through millions upon millions of acres of sustainable farmland. Now there's not enough food for too many people. Leaders from around the globe came together and conceived of the most extraordinary competition imaginable. The results determine who gets...

Extrait : "En peu de temps je commençai à lui parler et à lui apprendre à me parler. D'abord je lui fis savoir que son nom serait Vendredi ; c'était le jour o je lui avais sauvé la vie, et je l'appelai ainsi en mémoire de ce jour."

A CHILD, A YOUTH, AN ADULT LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, QUEST... What is life? Are there any other worlds?, Who am I? All this is combined in the work, "Talking to the stars", turning fantasy into reality through its character "Pipilet Mandala", a humanoid snail, who has crossed space and come to Earth as a "Universal Correspondent." Through the different dialogues, not only will you discover new horizons and concepts of life, but you will also, feel like...

TO FIND HIS LOST SISTER...A BOY BECOMES HIS WORST ENEMY.BUT WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE HER? After three long years of searching, Twist finally has the power to track down his sister. But when her trail leads him to dark secrets, he learns that some things are better left undiscovered. Twist must risk everything for the sister he loves, confronting both Overlords and the Underworld. Will his gamble be enough? Or will he lose everything? This gripping...

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....

This book is an adventure story that takes place in Iraq in 1980. After the death of his mother, Tom O'Hara has no choice but to leave his Tampa school and friends and go with his father on a posting to Iraq. There, Tom meets his friend Mikhail and accompanies him and his family to the north for Easter. As they travel, the possibility of war between Iran and Iraq grows so dangerous that John, Tom's father, comes north to get him so he can be evacuated...

Sean and his best friend are heading to a movie when they think someone is following them in another car. But when they make a sudden turn and stop, the car disappears without a trace. As they proceed on to the movie, they have no idea that the man trailing them in the car has just stopped in front of his ex-girlfriends house and attacked her. The next day, Sean knows the perfect remedy for his troubles at home is attending a concert with his close...

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura la novela de aventuras Dos años de vacaciones, del célebre escritor francés Julio Verne. En esta trepidante historia, quince niños solos a bordo de un barco naufragan en una isla, donde deberán organizarse y luchar para sobrevivir, enfrentándose a muchos peligros y situaciones límite que dejarán al lector sin aliento. ¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo...

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.