"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Punjabi). [This book]...

With the help of their new recruits, The Beast and Angel, the X-Men must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. A potential cure is discovered and processed to treat and ultimately eliminate the genetic mutations, once and for all. As the battle lines are drawn, the...

In Different Appearances, beginning readers will learn to celebrate diversity by appreciating the many ways people look different from one another. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they draw inferences about how diversity makes our society stronger and more interesting. An infographic helps readers recognize how many similarities underlie people's physical differences, while a picture glossary reinforces...

A graphic novel in which a death at the Xavier Institute shows the X-Men that an enemy--whose identity will shock them--lives in their midst.

Wolverine's plans to stay at home for a relaxing evening of sports are interrupted when he is asked to watch a group of girls at the school who manage to find all kinds of trouble.

Wolverine, robbed of his animal nature, and Kitty Pryde, turned into a cat, continue their struggle to save the animal people of Wundagore.

Kitty Pryde, a new student at Professor Xavier's school for mutants, is not very happy to be teamed up with Wolverine on her first mission, but the two of them soon discover there are things they can learn from each other.

Collects no. 19-24 of "Astonishing X-Men" and no. 1 of "Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men," in which the team of super-powered mutants rushes to save the Earth from the destructive plans of the Breakworld.