18 books like Only You Can Save Mankind
Johnny and the Bomb
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.
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Johnny and the Dead
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.
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A Flying Birthday Cake?
Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior.
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Rabbit and Robot
“This provocative jaunt…dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication.” —Booklist (starred review)Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the…
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Pericolo spazzatura spaziale
"MouseStar 1 is surrounded by floating space junk! It's yucky--and dangerous. Geronimo Stiltonix tracks down the source of the junk and meets very wasteful aliens. Even worse, robots that the aliens threw away have started to rebel! Can the spacemice restore harmony before the robots take over?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Spooksville - Aliens in the Sky
When Adam and his friends stay up late one night, they see bright lights in the sky. Lights that look suspiciously like flying saucers. Then, the next night, one of the saucers lands by the reservoir, and the creatures who come out of the ship don’t look like people at all. Their heads are too large, and their eyes are too big and black. Worse, they want Adam and his friends to come with them for…
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Echoes of war
A collection of five short stories examining the lingering repercussions of war on the lives of young people.
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The Lives of Christopher Chant
PerfectBound e-book exclusive extras: "Diana Wynne Jones's The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Nine Notes"; and our exclusive interview with Diana Wynne Jones.His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the…
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The Capture
The Animorphs are in real trouble when they transform into flies to invade the new base of the alien Yeerks, and Jake becomes the enemy after falling into the Yeerk regeneration pool.
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LEGO Star Wars
Lego Star Wars (stylized in all caps) is a Lego theme based on the ''Star Wars'' media franchise and fictional universe created by George Lucas. , it includes 1051 Lego building toy sets, 1590 Lego minifigures, an eponymous video game series containing six games, and multiple animated short films and television series.
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The Shapeshifters
Five shapeshifter novels--one fascinating read!HawksongDanica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente--even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind's greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his…
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Mothership
In 2074, while attending the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers aboard an earth-orbiting spaceship, sixteen-year-old Elvie finds herself in the middle of an alien race war and makes a startling discovery about her pregnancy.
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents - to wipe out the world's most bloodthirsty aliens on The List. At the number-one spot, The Prayer is Daniel's ultimate target. With mind-blowing skills like telepathy and the ability to transform and create, Daniel's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Along with his friends Willy, Joe-Joe,…
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The Battle for WondLa
When all hope for a peaceful coexistence between humankind and aliens seems lost, Eva Nine, with help from an unlikely ally, tries to thwart the evil Loroc's ultimate plan for life on Orbona.
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Star wars
Masterfully drawn by artist Toshiki Kudo, this volume follows Luke Skywalker as he travels to meet Jedi Master Yoda while Han and Leia struggle to outrace the grip of Darth Vader. You wont want to miss out on this exquisite telling of the classic tale of betrayal and high-adventure.
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Diary of a Minecraft Zombie, Book 9
A Zombie Apocalypse is threatening to end Minecraft as we know it. And it also just might totally ruin Zack's 13th Birthday Party. But, will Zack and his friends be able to stop the Zombie Apocalypse so that they can finally enjoy some cake and cookies at Zack's Birthday Bash?
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Watch the skies
LIGHTSAll's quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERAResiding in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and…
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Vampire & Werewolf Stories
A collection of stories about vampires and werewolves, including Jane Yolen's "Mama Gone," Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," and an excerpt from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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