Firegold

Author	Sharon Shinn
ISBN	0670060704

**MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS**
what if your gender was doubtful ,
i mean what if your mother strongly believed that you were born a boy,
but yet here you are all girl and no exceptions?

i was hooked from the very first. following Kellen as she tries to find her true identity.


you...

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	0765319241

Two-time Newbery Honor Award-winning author Laurence Yep kicks off an action-packed new fantasy trilogy

Sure to appeal to fans of Rick Riordan and Eoin Colfer, this action-packed tale takes readers on an unforgettable journey through an alternate version of our world in 1941—a world...

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	0152099026

I'm not a big fan of the poetry, and sometimes I was annoyed that the stories' preceding autobiographical anecdotes about how they were written would give away parts of the plot or otherwise change the way I would read the story. But Yolen writes lovely stories and is kind of my hero so I forgive her.

I...

Author	Beth Hilgartner
ISBN	0395502144

At first Alexandra thought it was a dream. She would just lie there in the forest, quite still, until she really woke up. But the birdlike little girl tugged at her hand again. She tried to explain: "I'm Zan, and I'm lost." The little girl only smiled, clearly not understanding.

That was how Alexandra...

Author

Stephen Cosgrove

This Mr Cosgrove Serendipity Book is about a baby Giraffe finding her rightful spot in life. Learning this moral of this story "Whether you're short, tall or medium, you're perfect just as you are." As she grows up she tries to play with her friends around her but they all get mad at her because she's so much...

Author	Meg Burden
ISBN	0976812681

The debut novel of a young American writer creates a world of fantasy, where the land is divided into two-- the Northlands and the Southlands.
Ellin, a girl from the Southland, is forced to go with her physician father to heal the Northland king, even though Southlanders are despised and feared throughout...

Author	Betsy James
ISBN	0689850719

Fifteen-year-old Kat is more her father's housekeeper than his daughter. Just like all Upslope women, Kat is required to stay close to the hearth and as far away from Downshore and its savage people as possible. Kat must remain "respectable" -- and that means covering her wild red hair, finding a husband...

Author

Victoria Hanley

Something is threatening the legendary Healer's Keep, where students gifted in the healing arts are trained. Will they learn enough in time to keep the darkness at bay? Or will the Shadow King turn their gifts against them and once again walk the world?
"This complex and engrossing companion to...

Author

Diane Lee Wilson

Born on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna's future seems decided when, as an infant, her foot is crushed by a horse. Her clan believes she has been cursed by bad luck, and she is confined to her family's tent to cook and sew. But Oyuna dreams of bringing honor and good luck to her...

Author	Gillian Bradshaw
ISBN	0312875959

Betrayal, love, and lycanthropy in the time of the CrusadesBased on one of the Lais of Marie de France, The Wolf Hunt is a breathtaking adventure that showcases, once again, Gillian Bradshaw’s talent as both a historian and as a novelist.When Marie Penthièvre of Chalendrey is abducted from her Norman...

Author	Kate Thompson
ISBN	0786813962

So funny how I got to reading this one! The kids & I went to the library to sign them up for the summer reading program & to check out some books for them. Asher went down the YA aisle & came back carrying this book, saying, "Book, Book." I informed him that he was not quite ready to be reading that...

Author	Shirley Rousseau Murphy
ISBN	0060243600

I first read this book when I was in 7th grade and was just starting to get into fantasy books. At the time I was not in the habit of keeping a list of books that I read, so a few years later, when I started, I could not remember the name of this book. I wanted to get a copy of the trilogy but since this was in the dinosaur...

Author	Hayao Miyazaki
ISBN	1569313482

Hayao Miyazaki was a budding filmmaker in 1982 when he agreed to collaborate on a project with the popular Japanese anime magazine Animage. This was Nausicaa, which would make Miyazaki's reputation as much as his 11 films and TV shows. Set in the far future, Nausicaa visualizes an Earth radically changed...

Author	Suzanne Myers
ISBN	1616956607

A few weeks into her sophomore year at Ventura High School in California, everything is about to change for Wren Verlaine. It's always been just Wren and her mother, Hannah, but when Hannah receives a reporting assignment that sends her to Greenland for six months, Wren is shipped off to Hardwick Hall,...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0446362867

Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg is a novella set up as a concise narrative in the form of letters written between two mental time travelers visiting the Atlantean Empire some 18,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

Time researchers are sent back in time as a discorporeal entity...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689869312

The mischievous Boggart is trying to help his friend The Loch Ness Monster in this “imaginative and compelling tale” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Newbery winner Susan Cooper.

It’s been two years since Emily and Jess Volnik visited ancient Castle Keep in Scotland and made...

Author	Yves Meynard
ISBN	0312868316

A highly underrated book - and it's easy to see why. I initially started this book, but quickly put it down as an overly simplistic story written in the stilted language of a Victorian novel. Several friends recommended it, however, so I picked it up and gave it a second try.
After making it through...

Author	Cliff McNish
ISBN	0995582149

The magic of all children has been released. Throughout the skies of Earth they swoop, crossing continents, changing shape, diving to the ocean depths and playing the deadly new spell-games.

Rachel bides her time, watching the skies for what she knows will happen - the invasion of the Witches....

Author	Hajime Kanzaka
ISBN	1595320954

The chairman of the Sorcerer's Guild has disappeared, and Tarim the Violet and Daymia the Blue are now vying to fill the coveted seat. With conflict and corruption littering the campaign trail, Lina and Gourry are recruited to maintain homeland security. Along the way, our heroes make some startling...

Author	Giselle Liza Anatol
ISBN	0313320675

J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent likelihood that they are among this generation's...

Author	Alice Borchardt
ISBN	0451403967

Tenth-century France is a land where the Forest People who worship pagan gods are disappearing. Christianity is arriving with a new God and new rulers. And brutal Viking Northmen are swarming from their warships to raze villages and loot the land.

Elin, a woman of the Forest People, is schooled...