When Charlie Hitchcock, the smartest kid at school, gets a note from the school bully, Tyler Yu, demanding a meeting he fears the worst--but it turns out that Tyler wants him to solve the mystery of the missing magician at the Abracadabra Hotel.

"Thirty years ago, Brainiac shrank the city of Kandor and sealed it inside an unbreakable glass container. The evil supercomputer is still exploring the universe, collecting cities from hundreds of planets. Superman must stop Brainiac from bottling up Metropolis, and then save Kandor--the last remnant of his home planet"--Unedited summary from book.

Tyler Yu, school bully, is convinced that there is a ghost stealing things at Abracadabra Hotel, and he enlists the help of Charlie Hitchcock to solve the mystery.

Noor and Farah, searching for food, find themselves in a crumbling library. But when Noor shouts, the sound is heard by three soldiers who patrol the old building. The soldiers are angry, and the two girls are scared. That all changes when Noor opens her mouth.

A teenage cowboy is working at a ranch for the summer. His father said it would be good for him. One night, the horses begin to snort in fear and a strange teenage boy appears where a fire-breathing shadow once stood. The cowboy is afraid, until he sees that the stranger's birthmark is dragon-shaped, just like his.

If you were a verb, you would add an action or condition to every sentence. Your could run, soar, swoop or feel. You could be helping verb or a linking verb.

A boy, who has a birthmark in the shape of a dragon on his arm, stows away on a ship to North America, but when his birthmark begins to sting, the boy discovers a crewman with a dragon tattoo and some curious cargo.

On the morning after a storm, Rico searches the beach for unusual objects, but what he discovers is dozens of large, mysterious eggs scattered across the sand, and a strange man burying them.

Sixteen-year-old Henry looks for his missing friend in a strange city only to find that there have been lots of cars stolen from the area, which leads Henry to wonder if his friend, or something else, is to blame.

Little Lion likes to play, but he has to learn how to share.