"Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie...

Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.

Examines how rock is made and how it got the way it is today. Children will follow a little rock's journey from the core of the Earth into the hands of a very lucky little boy.

Novelist Ernest Hemingway creates a spy ring in Cuba to combat German agents during World War II and the novel describes his adventures as he chases enemy submarines with his fishing boat. Narrating is an agent planted by the FBI to keep an eye on the ring, a man who never read a word of Hemingway. Famous people make appearances, including spy Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books. By the author of Fires in Eden.

Quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and loose police offiers. Botched choices and missed chances that separate people- and the renuous threads of love and coincidence that connect them.

"This title invites readers to discover what's fun and unique about a factory" -- Provided by publisher.

The heroes receive dire news: prior to their original capture, Core Hunter, Voltix, XT4, and Thornaxx stole four components of what is said to be a devastating super-weapon called "The Doom Box." This device grows larger on activation, encompassing anything in its path, then collapses in on itself--a serious danger enough--but the box is capable of growing to the size of an entire galaxy! Now that the villains have escaped, they are believed to be...

Rock and Eddie hope to be the bass fishing state champions, but an accident changes everything.

Panda, Zebra, and Penguin invite the reader to tour a factory where messes, color, and surprises are forbidden but an accident occurs and the reader must help clean it up.

Five children find entry tickets to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. The tour brings out the best and worst in them.