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Maguire, Gregory

In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tin...

Colleen Gleason

After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Will...

Bryant, Jen

For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important re...

Stine, R.l.

R.L. Stine's hugely successful young adult horror series "Fear""Street" is back with the first new book in almost 2 decades. With more than 80 million copies sold around the world, "Fear""Street "is one of the bestselling young adult series of all time. Now, with "Party""Games," R.L. Stine revives this phenomenon for a new generation of teen readers, and the announcement of new...

Riordan, Rick

hough the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo II" have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen-all of them-and they're stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood-the blood of Olympus-in orde...

Kathryn Erskine

National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine presents a unique novel about a sickly boy's epic journey through England and Scotland at the height of Medieval times. Adrian is small for his age, even for an almost thirteen year old. It doesn't help that he has albinism, which makes those he meets wonder if he's an angel or a devil. His father is a bowyer, and all Adrian wants to d...

Ann M. Martin

Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different - not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single ...

Mark Lawrence

"A hard-edged tale of survival and conquest in a brutal medieval world well told and very compelling, it is different than anything I have ever read."--Terry Brooks, "New York Times" bestselling author of the Shannara series "Mark Lawrence is the best thing to happen to fantasy in recent years."--Peter V. Brett, international bestselling author "One of fantasy's most talented a...

Adam Gidwitz

Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim. Cinderella's stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds. Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half. And in a tale called "The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage," a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Yes, the sausage talks. (Okay, I guess that one's not that grim...) Those are the real fairy tales. But they have nothing ...

Candace Fleming

"Positively tailor-made for reading--or reading aloud--by flashlight," declares "Kirkus Reviews" in a starred review. The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different tim...

M.t.anderson

A body on the tracksA teenage terroristA mysterious wish-granting machineThe world's worst private detectiveThe second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity. Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled by certified guy Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Thriller is a pulse-pounding collection of brand-new s...

Gaiman, Neil

In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller Coraline, Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? ...

Gaiman, Neil

A brand-new full cast audio edition of a perennial favorite--The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Graveyard Book, written and read by Neil Gaiman.The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal (the only novel to ever win both awards), the Hugo Award ...

Bommersbach, Jana

Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it range land justice when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a -filthy whore. But history was wrong. It was all a lie. Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn t a rustler. She wasn t a whore. And she d never been called Cattle Kate until she was...

Riordan, Rick

Hasak-Lowy, Todd

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

An immediate bestseller when first published, "Pay It Forward "captured hearts all over the world, became a wildly popular film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, and spawned a generation of increased altruism. This fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author. It takes an inspiring and moving tale of a young boy who believed in the power of kindne...

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Melvin, Treva

It's 1972 and fourteen-year-old New Yorker Elizabeth Landers is sent to the sleepy town of Ahoskie, North Carolina to spend the summer with relatives. Her expectation of boredom is quickly dispelled when police sirens and flashing lights draw her to a horrible scene at the Danbury Bridge. Mr. Samuel, owner of Samuel's Lumber Yard, has driven his car off the bridge and into the ...

Deprince, Michaela

"Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration!" --Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied heights of American ballet. Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the ...

Gaiman, Neil

Bestselling and multi-award-winning author Gaiman and fine artist Mattotti join forces to create a stunning book that's at once as familiar as a dream and as evocative as a nightmare. Mattotti's sweeping ink illustrations capture the terror and longing found in the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Gaiman crafts an original text filled with his signature wit and pathos that is...

Perkins, Lynne Rae

After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him. ...

Harrington , Karen

Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fictional, she'd magically know how to deal with the fact that her best friend, Anibal Gomez, has abandoned her in favor of being a "hipster." She'd be able to take care of everyone when her dad has to spend time in the hospital. And she'd certainly be able to change her family's secret.Seventh...

Johnson, Jaleigh

Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands. ...

Larson, M A

This action-packed debut, set in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale world, features daring princesses, a host of terrifying witches, and one hilarious fairy drill sergeantNall of which are found in this novel that combines adventure, humor, and magical mischief. ...

Milford, Kate

A rambling old smuggler's inn, a strange map, an attic packed with treasures, squabbling guests, theft, friendship, and an unusual haunting mark this smart mystery in the tradition of the Mysterious Benedict Society books. Illustrations. ...

Koresky, Leslie

As Audrey and her family move to another town, she says goodbye to her BFF, promising to stay in touch. With a new town, new house, new school, and even a sweet, new friend, life is looking pretty perfect. But things get complicated when the popular girls notice Audrey and begin to vie for her attention. They are so beautiful, so smart, so sophisticated. What will Audrey do to ...

Lewis, Damien

British bestselling author Damien Lewis is an award-winning journalist who has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones. Now Lewis brings his first-rate narrative skills to bear on the inspiriting tale of Judy--an English pointer who perhaps was the only canine prisoner of war. After being bombed and shipwrecked repeatedly while serving for several wi...

Riordan, Rick

Julie Kagawa

Book 1 of the Talon Saga In Julie Kagawa's groundbreaking modern fantasy series, dragons walk among us in human form. Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have become strong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over...