The explosive finale to Scholastic's mega-selling series. Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet - a task no Cahill dared to imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world, can two kids succeed where 500 years worth of famous ancestors failed?
A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair. Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet… It didn’t look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked…elegant. It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images—a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider—and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand. The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.
Tony Stark is known throughout the world as many things:billionaire, inventor, Avenger. But mainly for being the Invincible Iron Man. Just when Tony is about to add his pizzazz to an international eco-summit in Ireland, someone close to him forces him to question his role in making the world a more dangerous place with his high-techweaponry. But Stark doesn't have much time to reflect before an old enemy presents him with an even greater challenge: the assassination of all the eco-ministers, and Iron Man himself. Just how invincible Iron Man is when he is stripped of everything remains to be seen in this breathless adventure by the best-selling author of Artemis Fowl.
Jim Ward tells the detailed story of discovering his own fascination with body piercing, his founding of Gauntlet (the first body piercing studio), and the beginning of the modern body piercing industry.
Concealing, my psychic 'Gifts' is exhausting.I'll be happy when my brother Dusty grows up and finds a girlfriend. I'd be grateful for Dusty's offer to help me move if we weren't trading favors. Traipsing around a Renaissance fair is an agonizing price to pay. Epic fail, Mama and I miscommunicated on the dress size, and it leaves me a little...exposed. But at least I'm not naked. Right? There's nothing left for me to do but own my curvy sensual side as if I meant to tease the tantalizing knights and wizards at the event. A lunatic poisons the crowd, and a nasty epidemic of Montezuma's revenge wreaks havoc. Sneaky cowards make me madder than a wet hen. If that's not enough to knock the shine off the trip for me, it turns out a little known secret about a ghost in the castle is true. How do I know? Because I'm sleeping in the tortured spirit's room and she wakes me each night with a bloodcurdling scream. Assuming we survive this nightmare, Dusty best not give me any lip about my furniture being heavy. 'Throw the Gauntlet' is the 6th installment in the April May Snow Psychic Mystery Shorts. The stories are stand-alone, but the current, complete list is below. If you enjoy Colleen Helme, Erin Huss, JB Lynn, Jana DeLeon, Angie Fox, Elizabeth Hunter, or Amanda M. Lee, 'Throw the Gauntlet' will keep you turning pages to the end! #1 Throw the Bouquet #2 Throw the Cap #3 Throw the Dice #4 Throw the Elbow #5 Throw the Fastball #6 Throw the Gauntlet If you enjoy April's story, please sign up for the mail list at https: //www.mscottswanson.com/ (New release notifications only.)
**Update 1st November 2021** - In response to some reviews, the text has been checked and a number of errors corrected. A production error resulted in the duplicated text, This has been eliminated. I also took the opportunity to make some amendments to the narrative and chapter structure of the novel. ** It is September 1939 and Falcon Squadron have traded in their Fairey Battle's for new Bristol Blenheims. They're going off to war.Wing Commander Winwright must overcome the lethargy of peacetime and mould his unit into an effective fighting force. Pilot Officer Chandler is the new arrival and the welcome has been far from friendly. The old hands view him with suspicion and he must survive friendly fire as well as enemy action to show them what he can do. On a routine training flight over France, Flying Officer Hagen catches a glimpse of the hell that is waiting for them if they let their guard down. Facing the battle hardened Luftwaffe, Falcon Squadron are about to discover that war is far from a game.
A young boy living in England is transported back to Medieval Wales, where he learns all about life there as the supposed son of a prominent Norman knight.
