Twelve-year-old orphan Adia, a kitchen apprentice at the Academy of Shamans who has mysterious powers, embarks on an epic adventure through hidden realms when she discovers the kingdom's emperor is possessed by a demon and he's on his way to the Academy for a visit.

The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.

Sensei Ki-yaga leads Niya and the other students of the Cockroach Ryu on a journey to beg the feudal Emperor to stop war from breaking out between the mountain ryus, putting to the test the firm friendship and unusual skills of these physically-disabled samurai-in-training.

When her father is banished by the emperor, Toyoko, a skilled diver, bravely goes in search of him. In the process, she breaks an evil spell cast on the emperor. Includes special educational sections: Words to know, What do you think?, and About Japan.

Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor's death...

Before Nicholas V. Landrew can enjoy more than a few weeks in his new role as emperor of the universe, his world begins to fall apart. His mortal enemies, the Craborzi, have cloned him, and are using these carbon copies to produce an intergalactic reality show called The Abominable Emperor-killing a clone in every episode! Worse, they’ve joined forces with his other mortal enemy, the Phlemhackian talent agent, Morglob Sputum, who is also out for...