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WHEN CHRISTOPHER FORRESTER is woken up by a tiny jaculus dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy Here, at last, is his summons back to the Archipelago-the cluster of hidden islands where creatures of myth still live. But the summons comes laced with danger: The great dragons are dying and no one knows why. So Christopher sets off, with a sphinx tooth in his pocket, determined to save them if he can. When Anva Arden is woken up by the roval chancellor, her stomach fills with dread. She is being banished from the castle. A murder has been committed; Anya knows the wrong man stands accused, but now she can't stay to prove it. So she sets off, with a newly hatched chick in her pocket and a growing thirst for revenge, determined to get justice. Christopher and Anya are about to meet-in spectacular fashion, on the back of a sphinx, with arrows flying-and discover that their quests are intertwined, It will take every ounce of their courage, wit, and daring to protect the Archipelago from the poison that threatens both kings and creatures alike.

The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, and the healing power of friendship and love.

When a tiny snail meets a humpback whale, the two travel together to far-off lands. It’s a dream come true for the snail, who has never left home before. But when the whale swims too close to shore, will the snail be able to save her new friend?

One snowy morning, a little boy named Peter puts on his snowsuit and steps out of his house into a winter wonderland. He is captivated by the way the snow has transformed his world, and spends the day making snow angels, building a snowman, sliding down slick mountains, and much more. By the time he comes inside, Peter thinks his adventures in the snow are over. But when he wakes up the next morning, he realizes that new snowfall has covered the earth once more!

Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will—a boy on the run, a murderer—a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart.

James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history–from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright bizarre King Shark and Polka-Dot Man. But every character starts somewhere–and find out exactly where in The Suicide Squad Case Files 1, a new collection featuring debut and key appearances of Bloodsport, Mongal, Polka-Dot Man, King Shark, Weasel, the Thinker, and Amanda Waller herself, the government agent behind Task Force X.