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Courage Awakens: Jacob's Triumph over Darkness - A Captivating Children's Audiobook Filled with Inspiration and Adventure! "Jacob Overcomes His Fear of Sleeping Alone: A Story about Courage and Self-Empowerment for Kids" is an enchanting tale that will captivate children and inspire their inner bravery. In this heartwarming story, young readers are taken on a thrilling adventure alongside Jacob, a courageous and vivacious boy living in a quaint countryside...

Syv, a snowcat prince in line to take the throne following his father's death, embarks on a dangerous quest to find the long-lost magical crown that could break the curse on his land. But if he fails, Syv will be marked with three black stripes and banished from home forever. Along his journey, Syv will face dangerous beasts, dark powers, and the ever-lurking sandfoxes--sworn enemies to the snowcats. But when Syv discovers the truth about the legends...

This unusual, thought-provoking story begins with an old woman telling a tale to a group of children in a playground. One of the boys can't understand what she is saying, so another offers to translate. The old woman's tale is inspired by the Tower of Babel story: In the days when everyone spoke the same language, the people built a tower to reach God. But God was annoyed and sent a dragon to destroy the tower, then created new languages for everyone...

The tranquility of Benigno's life is shattered by Rodolfo, the cruel Mayor of Santa Ana. In a single night, Benigno's family is torn from him, and the magic his grandmother used to protect him does not go as planned. It summons something no one expected: the spirit of a long-dead philosopher who takes up residence in Benigno's belly and waits to emerge and guide him. By the light of the spirit's lantern, Benigno must follow the winding and treacherous...

After a long time apart, Mae is finally reunited with her best friend Dahlia in Indiana. But the visit takes a sudden turn when the pair begin to uncover hidden family secrets, and Colt, Mae's boyfriend back home, makes a difficult proposition. With a dangerous storm ahead of them in the other world, Mae will need all the help she can get.

A secret club. An evil foe. Three friends against incredible odds … Can the Dragon Flyers team survive and save their world? All David wants is to be a member of the Dragon Flyers Team. His friends, Joe and Calli are part of the secret world known only to those who believe in dragons, and David wants to join them. But first he must pass the tests before he can become a member of the elite flying team. David has much to learn about dragons and what...

From the illustrator of the web comic Strong Female Protagonist comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage -- and magic. In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.When a...

Still no closer to finding her father and now hurt over her separation from Abbie, Mae finds herself on her own for the first time since arriving in Cimrterén. After finding new friend Drydon, they start a booming business selling Mae's "inventions." Skateboards, yo-yos, ice cream, and popcorn-totally unfamiliar in this new world-prove to be hot commodities. Once Mae's reputation of master inventor begins to spread, her new boss (a.k.a. her kidnapper)...

The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the fourth graphic novel adaptation! In the shadows, trouble is brewing . . .When Starflight is stolen by his own tribe, he hopes to at least discover some of the long-held NightWing secrets -- what magical powers they really have, who they're allied with in the war, and where they've been living all this time.But the truth about Starflight's tribe is more terrible than...

Adapted from the Philippine National Book Award-winning novel, Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon takes the reader on a journey of discovery as Janus learns the truth about the supernatural realm of mythical creatures that surround us and how he and his family is connected to this magical world. Monsters live in the darkest corners of our dreams, existing only as nightmares, but sometimes they find a way out. When dreams and the waking world...