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Thirty-five girls are part of the Selection, when the royalty takes suitors for their son, Prince Maxon. These girls will be treated to balls, gowns, jewels--the life of luxury--in order to win the Prince's favor. For America Singer, however, the Selection offers only anxiety. She loves Aspen, even though he is a caste below her. Then, America meets Prince Maxon, and all her plans are ruined.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

Princess Eadlyn attempts to choose a prince during her Selection, an event at which suitors compete for her hand, but she worries that she will not be able to make a choice that meets both her own expectations and those of her parents.

When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.

Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.

Each year, the people of the Protectorate think they must sacrifice an infant to Xan, the witch who lives in the forest. Xan finds the abandoned babies and feels sorry for them, feeding them starlight and delivering them to good homes on the other side of the forest. One year, though, she accidentally gives one baby moonlight, which imbues her with magic. Xan and her friends, Glerk the wise swamp monster and Fyrian, a tiny dragon, decide to raise baby Luna by themselves. However, just as Luna's magic is emerging at her thirteenth birthday, Xan goes to gather the next baby at the same time a young man arrives to kill the witch and end the sacrifices. Glerk and Fyrian try to save Xan, but it is up to Luna to protect those who raised her.

After the forests burned, after the lakes and rivers dried up, and the plagued killed entire families, the Wicked searched for an answer to the dying the world. Then they found a boy named Thomas who would build a maze that would become the link between life and death; a maze only he could tear down. This is the story of how he created that maze, and the lies and secrets it birthed.

When Tris and Tobias enact a daring plan to go outside of the fence, they hope for a simpler life but instead encounter new truths and sacrifices that must be made for the good of all.

When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.

When Dion Leonard came across a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi desert, he made an unexpected, furry friend who would travel alongside him through the desert for almost eighty miles. And when his pint-sized companion goes missing, Dion is determined to find the pup he named Gobi and bring her home with him.