In this classic children's tale by acclaimed author Roald Dahl, the Big Friendly Giant, a very different kind of giant, finds a friend in a small human girl named Sophie. Listeners will delight in the fun language woven throughout the narrative.

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

Thirteen-year-old spy in training Ben Ripley is sent to Mexico to try to thwart the evil organization, SPYDER--the CIA's main enemy.

Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible to see yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four young sons are shipwrecked on an unchartered tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. An exhilarating novel, rich in action and suspense.

While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house...

A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.