Books are floating in mid-air when Giles and his genius friends meet at the library. Believing it may be the result of ghosts, Tina investigates the mystery with a ghostometer. However, it is Giles who discovers that it is a case of magic which they must solve.
This futuristic novel follows a boy's search for his missing brother into the Dead Water Zone, where a micro-organism designed to destroy pollution mutates into something far more dangerous.
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
While Shade continues to search for his father he finds a strange Human building that holds a huge forest. Thousands of bats live in the building where the forest is as warm as a summer night and food is plentiful. Then some of the bats start to go missing and Shade and Marina want to know where they have disappeared to. Their search takes them on a long journey and brings them closer to finding Shade's father.
Giles thinks that the strange noises in his bedroom sound suspiciously like ghosts. It is a good thing that his new friends, Tina and Kevin Quark, are geniuses, and that Tina has just invented a ghostometer.
Matt Cruse is the cabin boy of the Aurora, a 900-foot luxury airship. During a crossing over the Pacificus, he rescues the unconscious pilot of a crippled hot air balloon who, before dying, tells him about the creatures he has seen flying through the clouds. When Kate de Vries comes aboard to prove the story, Matt is caught up in the quest.
In 391 A.D., two men discovered the secret of immortality. Since then, they have chased each other, one preserving the past, the other destroying it. When 14-year-old Eric stumbles upon their secret, he becomes a pawn in their battle.
16-year-old Matt Cruse is the only person who knows the coordinates of The Hyperion, a legendary ghost ship rumoured to be full of riches. Soon Matt and his sweetheart Kate are on a dangerous treasure hunt, along with pilot Hal and Nadira, a gypsy girl who claims to have the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped booty.
Paris. Matt Cruse is looking forward to spending time with Kate de Vries over the summer, but first he is attacked and then Kate's parents summon her home. Things look up when the Canadian government makes an exciting offer to them both - Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air wants Kate to join the first expedition as an expert in aerial zoology. There's a place for Matt, too - if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world's first astralnauts onboard the incredible ship Starclimber.
Quand Ben Tomlin, 13 ans, déménage à Victoria, en Colombie- Britannique, c'est toute sa vie qui est bouleversée. Nouveaux amis, nouvelle école, nouvelles amours et comme si cela ne suffisait pas, un membre singulier s'ajoute à sa famille. En effet, le père de Ben, chercheur universitaire, adopte un chimpanzé devant servir à ses recherches sur la communication.
