Before Belle went to the enchanted castle and met the beast, she was a young girl, and this is her story. At age 7, Belle is happy living at home with her father. But at school she feels like an outsider. Then one day she discovers a run-down bookshop. Determined to bring the store back to life, Belle shows all her classmates how wonderful books and stories are.
Powerful demons are ready to conquer the universe, and teenage author Elianna Lapciuc is ready to conquer the good-versus-evil genre in these three interconnected stories. Story One After his birth, Ryan’s mother is thrown into lava by the Dark Lord of Hell, his father, to absorb her power. As a fifteen-year-old, Ryan is sent to a boarding school on Earth to collect more souls for his father, who hopes to rule everything in existence. Ryan has other plans and elicits the help of brother-and-sister schoolmates Kevin and Kylie. Story Two Alan, Claire, and Bella are bitten by bat-like creatures at an overnight public school camping trip and fear they have become monsters, too. Unable to control his powers, Alan turns everyone in his neighbourhood into an “army of rogue humans destroying everything.” Alan needs to understand why he keeps getting possessed. To solve a murder, the friends travel back to Hell, where they meet an odd older man, Jorden, and Alan’s real parents! Story Three The characters from stories one and two converge. Ryan begins stress eating as the Dark Lord and Jorden join forces to take over the universe. Relationships are revealed . . . but who is Aunt...
The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twenty-first century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.