Books with title The Crystal Stair

Four young children find a hidden cave that houses a space/time warp. The four embark on a series of adventures, taking them back through time and space. They make three separate visits to the cave and have three distinctly different adventures. They become trapped in a Saturn V rocket on a journey into space. They also help to search for a prehistoric child who is in grave danger. Then finally, they try to save Queen Cleopatra from kidnappers in ancient Egypt.

About the Author- Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. -Wikipedia For more eBooks please visit www.kartindo.com

Eleven-year-old Ava has a fantastic imagination, a goal to find her long lost father, and this summer, a full scholarship to Graham Alzondo’s Fantastical Camp—a camp bursting with surprises… 1. “Camp” is an exciting new adventure with espy dragons, candy stores in treetops, and magical axis dust. 2. Evil Solovar has cursed this place with everlasting misery. 3. The rare (and breakable) Crystal Egg—which can answer ONE question—is waiting to be found. Ava is really excited about #1. She wants to help fix #2, but then she learns her father is here, and without phones or internet, the only way to find him is with #3. The Crystal Egg is now the most sought after relic—authorities want the Egg to end the curse, Solovar wants it to become king, and Ava wants it to find her father. With a little help from her friends, Owen and William, Ava sets off on a quest to find the Egg. But if she finds it, Ava will have to choose: break the curse—for everyone, or … reunite herself with her father.

Alexis is a junior high student attending a school nicknamed Goth High for its black and red school colors and gothic teachers. One unforgettable night, Alexis disappears into a "haunted" mansion and is presumed dead but is really simply kidnapped. Her kidnapper turns out to be Count Kristoff, a vampire who claims to have transformed Alexis into a vampire as well. When Alexis and her friends find about Kristoff's plot to take over the world, it's up to these young people to stop him or remain monsters forever!

In this fast-paced mystery from Maurice Leblanc, criminal genius Arsene Lupin sets out to prove the truth of the old saying about honor among thieves. During a burglary, two of his sometimes accomplices are apprehended and ultimately sentenced to death. But Lupin is convinced of the innocence of one of the men who has been arrested and sets out to verify that his hunch is correct.

Arsene Lupin left the summer-house where he was smoking a cigar and, bending forward at the end of the pier: "Growler?" he asked. "Masher?… Are you there?" A man rose from each of the boats, and one of them answered: "Yes, governor." "Get ready. I hear the car coming with Gilbert and Vaucheray." He crossed the garden, walked round a house in process of construction, the scaffolding of which loomed overhead, and cautiously opened the door on the Avenue de Ceinture. He was not mistaken: a bright light flashed round the bend and a large, open motor-car drew up, whence sprang two men in great-coats, with the collars turned up, and caps. It was Gilbert and Vaucheray: Gilbert, a young fellow of twenty or twenty-two, with an attractive cast of features and a supple and sinewy frame; Vaucheray, older, shorter, with grizzled hair and a pale, sickly face. "Well," asked Lupin, "did you see him, the deputy?" "Yes, governor," said Gilbert, "we saw him take the 7.40 tram for Paris, as we knew he would.

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Four young children find a hidden cave that houses a space/time warp. The four embark on a series of adventures, taking them back through time and space. They make three separate visits to the cave and have three distinctly different adventures. They become trapped in a Saturn V rocket on a journey into space. They also help to search for a prehistoric child who is in grave danger. Then finally, they try to save Queen Cleopatra from kidnappers in ancient Egypt.