Switching Well

Author	Margaret Mahy
ISBN	0670864552

Hero's family is famous for its gifted, articulate children. Ginevra excels in math and science, Athol in metaphysics; Sapphira is a budding wordsmith. Only Hero is different: she does not speak. Yet, all things considered, the Rappers' lives are relatively peaceful... until Hero's wayward sister...

Author	Lynn Abbey
ISBN	0743458214

A Fantasy Masterpiece by LYNN ABBEY, the co-creator of "Thieves' World!" Wolves are loose in the English countryside. A dying monarch cannot enforce the laws, and his heirs are circling like vultures. The small castle that is Hafwynder Manor is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a mysterious young...

Author	Pam Conrad
ISBN	0064403092

"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and...

Author	Steven J. Simmons
ISBN	0881069760

This is a great story! What I love is that Alice and Greta are given the same knowledge base at their little witches' school, yet they use the same spells in different ways, Alice uses them for the good and Greta uses them for the bad. I think this is such an important concept to share with kids, how we all have...

Author	Sherryl Jordan
ISBN	0590447297

Juniper is beautiful, brilliant, bubbling with vitality, buoyant with theories about life and immensely popular at school. She's also manipulative.

Dylan is creative, artistic, withdrawn, nerdish and desperately lonely.

Their home lives couldn't be more different.

Juniper's...

Author	Cynthia Voigt
ISBN	0689851057

What would it be like to be older than your father? Brann Connell is sick of hearing his parents argue all the time. Seems to Brann his dad could stand up for himself more, instead of building a wall of excuses to hide behind. But some things never change -- after all, his dad has "always" been this way. Or has...

Author	Annette Curtis Klause
ISBN	0440228514

Puck, expelled from boarding school on Earth, is on her way to stay with her parents on the planet Shoon. On board the spaceship she befriends Hush, a native Shoowa who is also returning home in shame. He is desperately seeking a stolen treasure that was entrusted to him, a symbol of freedom for his people.

Puck...

Author

Vivian Vande Velde

Selwyn is brokenhearted when the beautiful Anora chooses to marry the awful,but rich, Farold. It's bad enough when Farold beats Selwyn up in front of the villagers. But nothing prepares Selwyn for Farold's being found murdered. All accusing fingers point to Selwyn, who is promptly sealed in a burial...

Author	Ruth White
ISBN	0374482802

The only thing that bothers me about this book is the summery given on the back. I went so far that I put a sticker on the back of my copy, so when I lend it to friends they can read it without bias.
I personally think this book is NOT about a girl being raped by her stepfather. Of course that happens, too, but...

Author	Carolyn Haywood
ISBN	0152051007

Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Second grade holds lots...

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0141308168

When fourth fiddler Sebastian loses his place in the Baron's orchestra, he has to leave the only home he knows--which turns out to be the least of his troubles. He rescues a stray cat from a group of tormentors, who then smash his precious violin; and the troubled young boy he tries to help turns out to be...

Author	Liz Berry
ISBN	0140365346

This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...

Author

Bianca Pitzorno

Parigi, 1832. In una sera d'inverno Sophie, nove anni, bussa alla porta della 'étoile' dell'Opéra Céline Varens per consegnarle alcune camicie confezionate dalla madre nella poverissima soffitta di Montmartre. È l'inizio di una grande amicizia tra la ballerina e l'orfana, che col passare...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0440403782

Why is Chad so uneasy when his California family rents a town house in New York City? Once there he hears voices—late at night, after midnight in this strange house that's at least one hundred years old.Then he finds that his younger brother, Luke, hears them, too, and even their older sister Heidi's...

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Glen A. Larson

Blah blah blah, already seen the episode. All of that. However, I like this better. I'm going in a bit of depth for a novelization, but here it goes.

First, the episode had much more female empowerment than I accepted from the notoriously sexist 70s. Here, it's shown to an even greater extent....

Author	Steve Bein
ISBN	1101605715

The Tiger on the Mountain is a legendary blade, crafted by the master sword smith Inazuma, and reputed to possess magical powers. In 1442 Japan, the sword dwells inside the impregnable fortress of Hirata Nobushige, the enemy of the Iga clan.

Venerable shinobi Jujiro has recruited the brave...

Author	Will Hobbs
ISBN	0689870728

Saving The Last Grizzlies

As this action-packed sequel to Bearstone opens, Cloyd Atcitty and his rancher friend Walter Landis are heading back into the mountains, this time chasing the old man's dream of finding a lost Spanish gold mine. But when Cloyd hears that a mother grizzly and her cubs...

Author

David Barnett

The real identity of Jack the Ripper revealed at last? Only if the Hero of the Empire has his way!

In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established...

Author	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0590440853

this is my first time reading this book!

another mystery, also ghostwritten by Ellen Miles (I think she wrote most of the mysteries). the main plot involves an anonymous person (mr. x) harassing the baby-sitters while they sit -- calling them and hanging up, leaving creepy notes and other gross...

Author

Alan Gratz

When a terrorist attack rocks Starfleet Academy, it’s clear someone has a very serious—and very deadly—secret agenda.

The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and “kill” him with a spork. Take your victim’s target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your...

Author	Judith Tarr
ISBN	0812564669

Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional lawyer, proud of her skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, sexist coworkers, and her deadbeat ex-husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day, she awakens to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper on the...