Space hero Super Ace is called to planet Roop because the planet’s robots are making messes, being mean, and ruining everything. The planet is in chaos! Super Ace tries to use his super powers (strength and good looks) to make the robots obey him, but no matter what he tries, the robots are still bad. The planet leader turns to sidekick Ned, and Super Ace laughs. But Ned uses his God-given wisdom to discover that the main switch at Robot Control has been bumped. The lever that should point to Good now points to Bad. That’s why the robots are bad. They can’t choose how to act, like people can. Ned moves the lever to Good, and the robots begin to clean up the mess and help people again. This level-two I Can Read book uses engaging characters and a simple plot to build children’s confidence as they discover the joy of reading independently.

Space hero Super Ace is called to planet Roop because the planet’s robots are making messes, being mean, and ruining everything. The planet is in chaos! Super Ace tries to use his super powers (strength and good looks) to make the robots obey him, but no matter what he tries, the robots are still bad. The planet leader turns to sidekick Ned, and Super Ace laughs. But Ned uses his God-given wisdom to discover that the main switch at Robot Control has been bumped. The lever that should point to Good now points to Bad. That’s why the robots are bad. They can’t choose how to act, like people can. Ned moves the lever to Good, and the robots begin to clean up the mess and help people again. This level-two I Can Read book uses engaging characters and a simple plot to build children’s confidence as they discover the joy of reading independently.

In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy... Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job... “A classic…If you want a great military adventure, this one is for you.”—All SciFi

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers

When Elaine leaves her home in London to stay with the Owen family in Wales, she feels miserable and left out. It's only the little secret garden that she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes staying there seem worthwhile. And then something happens that changes everything.

Chosen Girls is a dynamic new series that comunicates a message of empowerment and hope to Christian youth who want to live out their faith. These courageous and compelling girls stand for their beliefs and encourage others to do the same. When their cross-cultural outreach band takes off, Trinity, Melody, and Harmony explode onto the scene with style, hot music, and genuine, age-relatable content. In Backstage Pass, shy, reserved Melody (Mello), gets her world rocked when a new girl moves in across the street from her best friend, Harmony. Soon downtime—or any time with Harmony at all—looks like a thing of the past as the strong-willed Trinity invades Mello and Harmony’s world and insists that the three start a rock band. With a little help from the neighborhood computer geek, Lamont, the girls are transformed into music-video superheroes who triumph over sin with the power of the Holy Spirit. Somewhere along the way they open their hearts, learning that both old friends and new are important, and the Chosen Girls band is born.