A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him. It is the story of a courageous band of seekers, and a relentless killer. It is the story of all that is right with the world and all that is terribly wrong. It is the story of a revelation so terrifying that those who dare to look will...

After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable insitution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can work its magic on her son. But little did they know that Ryan would be faced with dark and evil practices.

The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.

The dog days of August...All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did. Then, just as the Labour Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry's mother, Adele, on one of her rare forays out of the house and into the wider world has taken him to buy trousers for school, a bleeding man approaches Henry and asks for help. Frank is a man with a secret, and a man on the run. Adele...

"The all-time favorite, now with sound button technology. There are 28.9 million children under the age of five in the U.S. and all of them will need to be toilet trained. This classic book has already helped millions of parents get their children through a life milestone with ease and some entertainment too. With Once Upon a Potty, a parent reads the book to their child or allows the child to read it while on the potty. Not surprisingly, the book...

After Bart King interviewed hundreds of the wisest guys and smartest alecks for The Big Book of Boy Stuff, something awesome happened: the book became a classic! Hailed by critics and kids alike, it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and even won awards. In this updated and redesigned tenth anniversary edition, hijinks and hilarity are still front and center. Within these pages, boys can find a myriad of things to do, things to laugh at, and...

Billy, old Dan and little Ann- a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan and the brawn, Little Ann had the brains- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley.

"What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What's with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and ... that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, which causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and their parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less...

Vicious traps and threats beset Frank and Joe as they search for two stolen, famous paintings in an old fort said to be inhabited by a ghost. One of the paintings is a clue to the hiding place of a chain of gold.