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Ten-year-old Sylvia has just discovered that her centenarian best friend is also her great-grandmother, and together they pursue discoveries yet to come.
This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!
Follow the adventures of Mike, Peggy, Nora, Jack and their friend Prince Paul as they discover mysterious goings on in one of Blyton's most exciting and adventurous stories.
In Enid Blyton's classic Secret Stories mystery always leads to adventure. In Enid Blyton's very first full-length adventure novel, meet siblings Peggy, Mike and Nora. They live with their cruel uncle and aunt and long to escape, so when their friend Jack takes them to a secret, deserted island, they run away to live there. But not all is as it seems on the island and the children soon find their adventures are only just beginning ... First published in 1938, this edition contains the original text and is unillustrated.
OUT OF THE BLOODSTAINED PAST... ... the avarice and agony of those long dead continue to reach out, wreaking ghastly revenge on all who desecrate, however innocently, the sacred ground on which the infamous house once stood. But though the secret of the ancient curse has been discovered and the house itself destroyed, can its evil power ever be completely exorcised? Or will the evil force that perpetrated horror after horror still remain, hovering like a deadly miasma, awaiting the advent of its next unwary victim?
SECRETS OF ZYNPAGUA: SHIMMERING THREAT is the sequel to the following books: Secrets of Zynpagua: Return of the Princess (Book 1) Secrets of Zynpagua: Search of Soulmates (Book 2) Secrets of Zynpagua: Birth of Mystery Child(Book3) Secrets of Zynpagua: Serpent's Shadow (Book 4) Secrets of Zynpagua: The Bond of Destiny (Book 5) Secrets of Zynpagua: The Demon's curse (Book 6) Secrets of Zynpagua: The Breach of Trust. In the book Secrets of Zynpagua: Shimmering Threat, Anika and Trudan escape from the mystic lake but Drudan traps Pajaro and dumps her in the lake. Pajaro’s energy clashes with that of the Demon planets and the lake falls from space. Frederick and Romeo try saving the lake, but to no avail because only Demon shall Prevail!
More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.
