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Author: Natasha Narayan Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623652952 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
When Kit Salter and her friends peek at a famed mummy in a museum chamber, they are shocked to discover rattles and moans coming from the box . . . Inside is an Egyptian stowaway, determined to return a looted scarab and save his village. When the mummy is stolen too, the ensuing adventures puts the children fast on the heels of a villainous East End mob, and right into the heart of the Western Desert. But as the story climaxes in a temple, the villains and Kit find they have underestimated a stronger force--the terrible power of ancient Egypt . . . A fabulous first book in an exciting series set during the Age of Empire.
Author: Natasha Narayan Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623652952 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
When Kit Salter and her friends peek at a famed mummy in a museum chamber, they are shocked to discover rattles and moans coming from the box . . . Inside is an Egyptian stowaway, determined to return a looted scarab and save his village. When the mummy is stolen too, the ensuing adventures puts the children fast on the heels of a villainous East End mob, and right into the heart of the Western Desert. But as the story climaxes in a temple, the villains and Kit find they have underestimated a stronger force--the terrible power of ancient Egypt . . . A fabulous first book in an exciting series set during the Age of Empire.
Author: N. B. Grace Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 053113668X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Where did the mummy come from? What happened to the person that became the mummy? Find out all this and more! a High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. With topics based in science, history, and social studies, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading... and always ask for more! When a mummy is discovered in Denmark, museum experts are brought in to determine the body's origin. With many clues and facts, scientists try to discover why this ancient man was murdered.
Author: Natasha Narayan Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623652936 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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Dark secrets at the maharajah's palace... Lost treasure and a bear attack in the Himalayas . . . And a naughty Indian monkey, filled with an ancient evil . . . When world-famous Explorer Gustav Champlon disappears just before a trip to India to find lost treasure, Kit Salter is determined to discover why. Tiny footprints in Gustav's room put her on the trail of a naughty Indian monkey. Before long she and her friends are aboard a steamer to India, on a quest to find the monkey and save Champlon. Welcomed into the palace of the boy Maharajah, a fabulous adventure ensues: Tiger hunts, court intrigue and a mountain expedition to find the lost paradise of Shambala . . .
Author: Natasha Narayan Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623652782 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Kit Salter and her friends Rachel, Waldo and Isaac tumble into another adventure when their coach is hijacked on the wilds of Dartmoor. Their arch enemies, the Baker Brothers, are behind the kidnapping. They force the children into a perilous voyage to China in search of a secret martial arts manual. From bustling Shanghai, their journey takes them to the hidden heart of Imperial China--Peking's Forbidden City. En route they battle opium smugglers, pirates and kung-fu fighters, before a climactic encounter with the mysterious Wooden Men, giant killers armed with lethal powers and a dastardly will of their own. Will Kit and her friends survive the danger and mysteries of China and win back their freedom? Find out in this twisting, thrilling adventure.
Author: Natasha Narayan Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623653002 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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Kit is in a coma after being poisoned in China by her arch enemies the Baker Brothers. On board a ship to England, her friends are desperate for a cure. When they hear about an inventor who is working on electricity and electro therapy, the group change route to San Francisco, western America, to find him. Luckily Kit is cured in time but it's not long before she is in mortal danger once again; one of the dastardly Baker Brothers has turned into a shape shifting skinwalker and has cursed Kit. The gang must now travel to the Grand Canyon and enlist the help of a shaman medicine man. But the Wild West is full of dangerous outlaws: ruthless cowboys and highway robbers. Can they navigate though the dangerous Wild West and make it to the Grand Canyon in time? An enthralling journey into the heartland of America filled with danger and discovery.
Author: Lissa Evans Publisher: Random House ISBN: 038561800X Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 289
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"Stuart Horten -- ten years old and small for his age -- moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his new next-door neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse. But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swept up in quest to find his great-uncle's lost workshop -- a workshop stuffed with trickery and magic. There are clues to follow and puzzles to solve, but what starts as fun ends up as danger, and Stuart begins to realise that he can't finish the task by himself ..."--Dust jacket. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author: Penny Dolan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 140880137X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 465
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A first book for middle school readers by the author of Little Troll finds young Mouse's privileged and carefree life shattered by his relocation at the hands of the villainous Mr. Button to grim Murstone Hall school, where Mouse receives help from an eclectic cast of characters while struggling to return to his family. Reprint.
Author: K. A. S. Quinn Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 0857894668 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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The first entry in a magical, thrilling, time-traveling adventure trilogy This is the story of Katie Berger-Jones-Burg. One minute, she's under the bed of her New York apartment, and the next she's in Buckingham Palace, at the height of Queen Victoria's reign—a dangerous place to be. The Royal Family is in mortal peril. In the secret passages of the palace, a plot is afoot. Suspicious figures huddle in the gaslit streets of London. And Katie is not the only time-traveler in the city.
Author: Daniel Ogden Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195151237 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
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In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Author: Natasha Narayan
Author: Natasha Narayan
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Author: N. B. Grace
Author: Natasha Narayan
Author: Natasha Narayan
Author: Natasha Narayan
Author: Lissa Evans
Author: Penny Dolan
Author: K. A. S. Quinn
Author: Daniel Ogden