X-Men meets Beast Quest at the school where ordinary kids with extraordinary powers learn to be superheroes! An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade - with amazing comic-book style illustrations. Jack and his friends are doing underwater training in a tropical ocean when they stumble across the secret lair of Dr Maranya - an evil scientist who has been splicing humans and animals to create a deadly combination! Can they save the animal hybrids, and stop Dr Maranya from unleashing her minions against Team Hero? ** This Special Bumper Book contains a longer adventure for even more fun! ** Have you read any other Adam Blade books? Try Team Hero: Battle for the Shadow Sword or Beast Quest: Ferno the Fire Dragon.
Welcome to Alura! You and your family are going on a trip to the small but beautiful Caribbean island. It's got plenty of sun, surf -- even coconuts! At least that's what the brochures say. You can't figure out how your parents got such a good deal -- the price was really cheap. It's as if the island was practically begging you to come and visit. But you soon realize there's more to this place than just sandy beaches. Something creepy. Something sinister. But you'll be going home soon, right? What happens next in this bone-chilling story? It all depends on the choices you make. How will your nightmare end? Only you can find out! And the best part is that you can keep reading and rereading, getting new chills and thrills -- until not one but all of your worst nightmares have come true! Give yourself goosebumps...
Minecraft Book for Kids: Steve is destined to save the world... but he’s gone missing! Now it’s up to Alex to find him. Teaming up with a wacky old wizard called Abraham and a crew of the laziest sailors around, Alex must brave storms, creepers, zombies and much worse to find out what has happened to her best friend.
Strap on your rocket boots and step into the exciting, quirky, and always hilarious universe of Captain Zepto! In this first issue of The Galactic Quests of Captain Zepto, things are looking very grim for the galaxy. The evil Dr. Zorb has unleashed fear on people across the earth. Who will save the day? Captain Zepto, of course! ...
Jesse Rigsby hates video games—and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good! With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, this is a great series for kids who think they don’t like to read!
An Airship, Rocket Packs, & Tommy Guns Vs. Giant Monsters On An Uncharted Mysterious Volcanic Island! Airship Troopers: Volcanic Dinosaur Island Of Doom provides everything you need (except dice) to run fast paced, exciting Zeppelin Age roleplaying adventures featuring the Streamlined Fun of Heliograph's DECO System. Inside you'll find: [ Complete rules for resolving any action (in 3 pages) [ Complete rules for creating any Character, Creature, or Contraption (in 10 pages) [ Player background information on life in the Airship Troopers in 1935 (in 3 pages) [ Detailed deckplans and information on the Troopers' airship (in 5 pages) [ The Z.O.O.M. (or Zeppelin Owner's Operation Manual) (in 5 pages) [ Player handouts, play aids, and blanks for your use (in 8 pages) [ Director advice on DECO (in 3 pages) & Adventure Details & Suggestions (in 15 pages) [ Suggested Viewing & Reading (in 1 page) [ More Play Aids, Samples, & Blanks, including 11 ready-to-play completed Character Sheets (in 20 pages) This quick start kit is the first release for Heliograph's Zeppelin Age: Pulp Adventure 1900 to 1940, and it makes a great jumping off point!
The legendary Warhammer of Stonebridge lies lost and broken in the treacherous wilderness of Darkwood Forest. Without it, the Dwarves of Stonebridge are doomed...Only the foolhardy would enter the murky depths of Darkwood. But your quest will lead you into the very heart of the forest. Dare you take on the unknown perils of Darkwood, and survive the puzzles, traps and fearsome creatures that lie in wait for you? You alone must find the missing pieces of the Warhammer and save the Dwarves of Stonebridge before it is too late!
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
