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'It is settled. The boy is in your charge. You will train him to fight. He must be able to use the dagger, throwing-knife, staves and his bare hands. One day young Marcus may well become a gladiator in the arena. But you must also teach him the ways of the street.' Now a member of Julius Caesar's palace, Marcus's training continues in the city of Rome. The streets are plagued by vicious gang war attacks, and Caesar must employ his own gang leader, who learns of a plot to murder him. Only Mar...

Since the joyriding accident, 15-year-old Matt Norris's life has been hell. His brother, Jake, is dead, and Jake's girlfriend, Joolz, has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the car crash unscathed. Or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt's every step, appearing out of thin air dressed in outrageous costumes. What does he want? Why does Joolz remember the accident differently? What exactly had happened? They'd all been too stoned to know. Riddled with guilt, Matt attempts a...

Edward Nygma, otherwise known as The Riddler, is supposedly cured and out of prison, but now he is being hunted by mysterious ninja assassins--so he turns to Batman for protection.

Think your life is difficult? Lupe Arellano struggles with an eating disorder and a complicated romantic situation. Yet those problems are nothing compared to what happens when she joins Crime Scene Club. Now, Lupe has to locate a lost treasure and survive attacks by a murderer guarding his hidden fortune. This first book in the CSC series provides information about forensic geography along with edge-of-your-seat adventure.

Furnace Prison - Where death is the least of your worries. Escape is just the beginning...We thought we'd made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace. All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse. The clock's ticking. Because if we don't escape soon they will turn us into freaks - like them. Forever. In the darkness of the...

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

A gruesome murder four years earlier, in La Santé prison in Paris, casts a long shadow over the lives of many people. Chief Inspector Maigret of Police Nationale is one of them. It is such a painful subject that he refuses to discuss it.  In the present time, Max, almost fourteen, who knows nothing of past events, is enjoying a brief holiday with his Parisian relatives, one of whom is Chief Inspector Maigret. And that is how he manages to be in the wrong place at the wrong time: Montmartre, ea...

You met Reason Nelson in Scratchin' on the Eight Ball. Today, he's older, off alcohol and drugs, but discovers that staying that way isn't easy--it takes more than just saying 'no' to overcome the alcohol and drugs. Action and adventure follow Reason as he strives to stay clean himself and help the twelve-year-old brother of his girlfriend, Julie.

In Russian Gold an armoured convoy has been attacked in Moscow and hundreds of gold bars stolen. But who was behind the raid, and where is the gold? Get to Russia, get the clues and get the gold.

Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.