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Daniel Corrigan just moved to Nodle's Green, Pennsylvania and notices something strange. Soon, he figures out that his new friends have superpowers. One can fly, one is super strong, and another can turn invisible. These kids watch over the town and keep everyone safe. The only problem is that the superheroes are disappearing one by one because when they turn thirteen, their powers and any memories of them disappear. To find the villan that is stealing the powers of the kids of Noble's Green, everyone will have to work together and stop him once and for all.

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In the sixth Alex Rider Adventure, Alex is recovering from his encounter with a sniper who had been sent to kill him. In the hospital, he meets Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin. While in the hospital, kidnappers come for Paul. The kidnappers are part of Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who are angry that Nikolei Drevin caused the extinction of several species of birds during rocket launches for his latest project, Ark Angel, a space hotel. However, Alex defends Paul against Force Three and prevents them from kidnapping him.

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 In Stevie's new school, he is determined to fit in with a gang. This gang is made up of a bunch of bad kids. To get in, the gang is asking him to set fire to a piece of public property. There is one thing that is making Stevie hesitant about doing this; he is afraid of fire because people had burnt him at his old school. Things, however, change in Stevies life when he finds The Devils Toenail, an ancient shell-like fossil that makes him more daring, and also urges him to do criminal acts like stealing.

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This is the story of the relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine Beauharnais. After Josephine's original husband is killed in the French revolution by the guillotine, she seeks a new husband and finds one in Napoleon. He quickly falls in love with Josephine and creates what seems at times a one sided love. Napoleon must balance being a conquerer and being a husband. Yet Josephine, on the other hand, appeared to have more trouble in the relationship even though it did not seem she had many distractions.

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Snoot is a robot or more specifically a Drudgebot, but he does not llok like the other Drudgebot, he is smaller and not made of bronze. Some Drudgebots are required to plug into a cylinder to preform math problems to charge the city in which they live and to supply the valuable light to all the robots. The Drudgebot are under the command of the Halobots, Guardbots, and Father Screen, the leader of all the robots. There is a unspoken question that all of the Drudgebots have. Where do the Halobots, Guardbots, and Father Screen live?

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Soren and his division of owls are from Ga'Hoole and are being sent on a very important mission. If they fail this mission then many owls in the world could perish at the hands (or talons) of the Pure Ones. Soren splits his team up for the mission, they all go to different places in the Northern Kingdom to ask for help from the groups of owls there that could help them fight the Pure Ones. The Pure Ones are dangerous owls who if became powerful enough could destroy owls at their will.