In the 1950s, the street boys of Singapore caught and bet on their wrestling spiders, gaining not only money but also power and prestige as they won. Backgrounded against age-old vices, superstitions, urban legends, as well as a dangerous world of youth gangs and a tumultuous period in Singapore’s history, Spider Boys is a moving and sensual story that draws the reader into turning its pages as if by a beguiling, hypnotic force, alternating arousing and repelling him. First published by Penguin, New Zealand, in 1995, Spider Boys has been re-edited to not only retain the flavour of colloquial Singapore English in the dialogues, but also improve the accessibility of the novel for all readers by rendering the narrative into grammatical Standard English.

Told in journal style that's ideal for boys and reluctant readers, this novel about a boy with a love of spiders is sure to appeal to arachnophiles and aracnophobes alike.

Cambridge Experience Readers is an award-winning series of graded readers including original fiction, adapted fiction and non-fiction especially written for teenagers. Kieran loves insects, and in particular spiders. He finds everything about them fascinating and there isn't much he doesn't know about them. When he's studying spiders, Kieran feels happy and confident. The rest of Kieran's life is more difficult. His father is obsessed with teaching a reluctant Kieran to climb. And then there's Connor O'Brien - a boy in Kieran's class whose only pleasure seems to come from making fun of Kieran's interest. This paperback is in British English. Download the complete audio recording of this title and additional resources at cambridge.org/experience-readers Cambridge Experience Readers get teenagers hooked on reading.

From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a standalone romance about a flawed hero and the woman he can't forget. He called himself Spider.I just knew him as the sinfully gorgeous guy with eyes of fire that fate put next to me on the airplane. I didn't know who he really was...future rock star...my stepbrother. He kissed me because he thought we'd never see each other again. We would. Everyone warned me about him. They said he was ruthless and screwed up.That he'd leave me with a hole in my heart. Maybe I should have listened. Maybe I should have built up a fortress to keep him out. But I crumbled instead. They say an unbreakable thread connects those who are destined to meet. If that's true, then the moment he sat next to me, we were bound together forever. He just had to figure it out before it's too late...

Set in 1966, these stories re-create the world of lower-middle-class adolescent boys coming of age in upstate New York.

Spider-Man uses when he has learned in a science class to catch a villain.

"Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you're on the victim side of the hustle. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins." Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. He's even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he's Spider Man. But lately, Miles's spidey-sense has been on the fritz. When a misunderstanding leads to his suspension from school, Miles begins to question his abilities. After all, his dad and uncle were Brooklyn jack-boys with criminal records. Maybe kids like Miles aren't meant to be superheroes. Maybe Miles should take his dad's advice and focus on saving himself. As Miles tries to get his school life back on track, he can't shake the vivid nightmares that continue to haunt him. Nor can he avoid the relentless buzz of his spidey-sense every day in history class, amidst his teacher's lectures on the historical "benefits" of slavery and the importance of the modern-day prison system. But after his scholarship is threatened, Miles uncovers a chilling plot, one that puts his friends, his neighborhood, and himself at risk. It's time for Miles to suit up.

Norman Osborn is back - deadlier than ever! Dan Slott brings his spectacular decade-long run as Amazing Spider-Man writer to a blockbuster finish by combining two of the wall-crawler's greatest foes into one nigh-unstoppable killing machine! Norman Osborn has been scouring the globe for a source of power with which he can exact his final revenge on Peter Parker - and he's about to find it! But when Osborn bonds with the Carnage symbiote, he'll no longer be the Green Goblin - he'll be something new. With all the strengths of both villains, but none of the weaknesses, he takes to the skies as the Red Goblin! And now none of Peter's friends or family are safe. Spidey is in for the fight of his life as Slott signs off in exhilarating, emotional style! COLLECTING: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 794-801

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul. God is dead. Meet the kids. Fat Charlie Nancy’s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn’t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie’s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous. “Thrilling, spooky, and wondrous.” —Denver Post “Awesomely inventive.… When you take the free-fall plunge into a Neil Gaiman book, anything can happen and anything invariably does.” —Entertainment Weekly “Delightful, funny and affecting.... A tall tale to end all tall tales.” —Washington Post Book World

A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand--not by the horse, cow, sheep, goat, or dog. But when the rooster asks if she wants to catch a pesky fly, the busy spider is able to catch it in her web immediately!