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Journeys inside the world of bioengineering and genetics, in a provocative novel of near-future science run amok.

Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, and Iceman, students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, learn to cope with their special abilities as they become X-Men and prepare for the world outside their school.

Shares stories of members of the first class of X-Men, including young Magneto, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, and Cyclops, and includes previously untold tales of Spider-Man, the Thing, and the Incredible Hulk.

Middle school is off to a depressing start for Marvin Watson, his new baby brother is proving to be a disappointment, and now his town is being threatened by a horde of mutant bugs, including a hungry spider that quotes Shakespeare--and if that is not enough there are three sarcastic man-sized moths living in the attic.

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained. When a new danger appears, Adelina's...

"After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he's one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can--visions created by a mutation to her eyes--and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events ......

"Seventh-grader Gabriel Nemo, the famous Captain Nemo's descendant, and his friends Peter and Misty save sinking ships, face mutant sea creatures, and more while eluding the Navy and Peter and Misty's parents."--Provided by the publisher.

It's late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack, who's perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio's. An old contact, Edward Burkes, convinces him to take on a missing-person fix. As usual, nothing is as it seems and the missing person isn't exactly a person. In fact, it's like nothing anyone has ever seen. And in the middle of all this, the mysterious Madame de Medici hires Jack to safeguard a valuable...

When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, an inexperienced lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.

How do you handle a little brother like Iggy? It isn't easy. He's already a huge pain in his older brother Daniel's you-know-what. He breaks stuff and wears underpants over his jeans! And suddenly he is way stronger than Daniel! Could Iggy's weird new superpowers have something to do with the new kid next door--who is pretty weird himself? Daniel needs to figure it out fast before everyone gets in big trouble!