Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Book Description
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where [...]
Rating: (113 reviews)
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: Little Simon
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has created a pop-up version of Dorothy’s adventures in Oz that fans will find hard to resist. Modeling his depictions [...]
Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Book Description
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. [...]
Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Description
Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the [...]
Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Book Description
Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons [...]
Author: Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Book Description
Rock Lee returns as Naruto once again chases after Sasuke. Plus, Kankuro, Temari and Gaara unexpectedly aid the Konohagakure against the Sound Ninjas. Could they be after something more than just rekindling the old alliance between Leaf and Sand?
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Description
This arc of Scott Westerfeld’s UGLIES trilogy follows the high-tech adventures of Tally Youngblood. As an ugly, then a pretty, and finally a special, Tally works to take down a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think [...]
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Now the truth can be revealed
Look within to find:
The mystical origins and secret legends of the Clans.
An insiders’ tour of the Clan camps and territories.
The histories and characters of each Clan, and information about their leaders and medicine cats.
Knowledge of cats [...]
Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
There will be three, kin of your kin . . .
The wild cats have flourished in their new home on the banks of the lake for several seasons, and the Clans are growing strong and healthy with new kits. The time has [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: PC Cast, Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Book Description
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She’s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Book Description
THE CHILDREN
FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS
BRAVE THEIR WORST
NIGHTMARES — UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Aladdin
Book Description
Susan Cooper’s brilliant Dark is Rising sequence has enthralled readers since the first book, Over Sea, Under Stone, was published more than forty years ago. The second book, The Dark is Rising, was named a Newberry Honor Book and is now a major motion picture. [...]
Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
The young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: The Clans must move to a new home, or risk extermination.
But the dangers waiting for them beyond their borders are impossible to predict, and [...]
Rating: (142 reviews)
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Miramax
Book Description
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he cant seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worsePercy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. [...]
Rating: (52 reviews)
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Miramax
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Spurred on by another mysterious rhyme from Morgan le Fay, the magical librarian of Camelot, siblings Jack and Annie climb into their magic traveling tree house once again, this time on a journey to Merry Olde England–and [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Book Description
“Locked inside Dervish’s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that’s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I’m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning [...]
Rating: (185 reviews)
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher: Orchard
Book Description
The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from. This is what happened to Charlie Bone, and to some of the children he met behind the [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the mountains of Africa. There they run into a huge mountain gorilla! At first they don’t know whether they should shake hands or turn tail. But the ominous-looking creature [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Kirsten Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
Book Description
What’s happening in New York City?Giant Squirrels.A Haunted Mansion.Six fierce friends with fiercer secrets.
Ananka is in danger of being sent to a remote boarding school; Kiki’s life (as always) is in danger, Betty seems to have found love in all the [...]
Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
Deep in the heart of the forest, four clans of warrior cats coexist in uneasy harmony — but uncertain times are upon them, and dangers threaten the precarious balance of the forest.
Fireheart is a ThunderClan warrior cat now, but his troubles are far from over. [...]
Rating: (55 reviews)
Author: Alvin Schwartz
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death — they’re all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
C. S. Lewis’s classic Narnia books spring to life in the hands of award-winning paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread rendered in spectacular detail with stunning special effects. Experience a different adventure from Narnia on every [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Candlewick
Book Description
The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens’s beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition.
The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge’s own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of Christmas Past, [...]
Rating: (112 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Square Fish
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“There are dragons in the twins’ vegetable garden,” announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he’s seen something strange, but dragons–a “dollop of dragons,” a “drove of dragons,” even [...]
Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks, Matthew Reinhart
Publisher: Michael di Capua Books / Scholastic
Book Description
They’re all here! Everybody’s favorite monsters are just going about their business when a plucky little boy wanders into their cuckoo house. And what does he want? He wants Mommy! No matter how scary these monsters [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ryder Windham
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Book Description
The full story of Anakin Skywalker, from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader … told for the first time in its entirety by NYT bestselling Star Wars author Ryder Windham. Spanning all six Star Wars movie and [...]
Rating: (314 reviews)
Author: Robert C. O’Brien
Publisher: Aladdin
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There’s something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child, is in dire straits and must turn to these exceptional creatures for assistance. Soon she finds herself flying on the [...]
Rating: (53 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Square Fish
Book Description
At the special request of Madeleine LEngle, this publication of An Acceptable Time marks the first time it is included as part of the Murry Family cycle.Polly OKeefe has recently come to live in the country with her grandparents, the famous scientists Alex and [...]
Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Master Merlin, Dugald Steer
Publisher: Candlewick
Book Description
Aspiring wizards can tune in to the age-old wisdom of Merlin with this dazzling compendium of all things magical — unveiling novelty elements throughout.
For any apprentice determined to learn the arcane arts of wizardry, could there be a better teacher than . [...]
Rating: (1102 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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“Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ‘Be very still,’ he whispered, as if I wasn’t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Joshua Gee
Publisher: Scholastic
Book Description
Vampires, ghosts, monsters, and more–ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA invites you to join our quest for the terrifying truth about all things ghoulish and ghastly. But beware! Surprises lurk at the turn of every page. . . .
Discover a time line of ALIEN LIFE on earth–beginning [...]
Rating: (142 reviews)
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Miramax
Book Description
There is no such twelve-year-old boy as Perseus ‘Percy’ Jackson. The Greek gods are nothing more than old myths. They certainly never have children with mortals in the 21st century, nor is there any such place as Half Blood Hill, a summer camp for demigods [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Frank Beddor
Publisher: Dial
Book Description
Alyss of Wonderlands rule has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss does her best to keep pace with the spiraling, non-stop demands of being [...]
Rating: (492 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Book Description
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find [...]
Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Description
When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.But there’s something eerily beguiling [...]
Rating: (2664 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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