The Sky Village

Author	Deborah Noyes
ISBN	0763630004

In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband,...

Author	Conor McPherson
ISBN	1559363126

“Conor McPherson, who [turned] 35 in August, is one of the genuine treasures of the English-language theatre. It is absolutely intoxicating to ponder what he will give us in the future.”—Irish Echo

“The unique and extraordinary aspect of McPherson’s writing is the way in which...

Author

Beth Kanell

This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...

Author	Steve Watkins
ISBN	0763638390

In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...

Author	Alma Alexander
ISBN	0060839589

What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic?

Spellspam.

At first, they seemed like harmless practical jokes, but now, for the students at the Wandless Academy, the spellspams are getting worse. Thea thought she was the only one who could reach through the...

Author	Betsy Franco
ISBN	0763648396

“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...

Author	Beth Ain
ISBN	0763633968

In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...

Author	Will Peterson
ISBN	1406307092

This has been sitting in the library waiting for someone to get it out, so with a lack of takers it was me this school holiday. So glad I did too It's one of those gorgeous children's story's that I love - lots of description and observation so it's very visual and inviting. It had an old-worldy feel to it, mostly...

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807554960

The Boxcar Children titles encouraged me to read and, as an adult, I still enjoy reading them. This particular title has a perfect ingredient list:

Memory Recall
Awareness of Surroundings
Respect for Elders
Doing Good Deeds
Logic and Reasoning
Map Reading
Use...

Author

Ross Campbell

Hmm. The weird thing about Sophia Campbell is that she's totally white and her main characters always seem to be vaguely asian-looking, black punk rock girls. While I definitely like seeing some strong black female characters in comics, she does draw them in a ludicrously sexualized way. They all have...

Author	Karen Brooks
ISBN	1864719435

Return to the beautiful, deadly world of The Curse of the Bond Riders, where the stakes are ever higher as Tallow morphs from talented boy apprentice to unwilling female courtesan and assassin

 

The stakes are higher than ever when the Maleovellis inform Tallow they are now her patrons....

Author	Dan Gutman
ISBN	0060594918

"You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever?"

Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter...

Author	Elizabeth Singer Hunt
ISBN	1862301255

The Search for Sunken Treasure by Elizabeth Singer Hunter, is a book recommended for children, that is fiction, the main character in this book is Jack the Secret Agent, and he is a fearless bold agent who isn’t afraid to take risks, and will do anything to complete the mission. The book’s setting...

Author	J.P. Hightman
ISBN	0060850639

"It's something of a Romeo and Juliet story. There was a young couple in Salem, long ago . . . And the girl's mother, she hated the boy. When the witch-hunting began, mother, daughter, and suitor all ended up at the Blackthorne hanging."

Now, ages later, in the cold, dark heart of the Victorian...

Author	P.J. Haarsma
ISBN	0763627119

Hang on to your transport! Wormhole pirates close in on JT and his friends in part three of the cyber-fueled sci-fi adventure.

It’s not a good sign: before Johnny Turnbull and his fellow knudniks even land on Orbis 3, a band of wormhole pirates invades their shuttle and deliver a cryptic threat...

Author

James Cardona

Alternate cover for ISBN13: 9780985028459

A young adult science fiction tale of genetic modification and dimensional travel.

Gabriella, a teenage girl who recently lost her genetics researcher father in suspicious circumstances, discovers that she is a surprisingly good athlete...

Author	James Moloney
ISBN	0732287677

The exciting conclusion to the bestselling trilogy that began with THE BOOK OF LIES.

three years have passed since Marcel defeated Mortregis, the great dragon of war, and more than a year since the Battle of Cadell. On a mountainside in Elster, Bea, who has lived among the elves all this time,...

Author	Erin Hunter
ISBN	0061723835

Polar bear cub Kallik and her brother, Taqqiq, live in a cozy den nestled into the side of a snowy hill. Their mother, Nisa, tells them stories of the great world beyond their little den: stories of other bears, endless snow, and flecks of ice in the sky called stars. Kallik and Taqqiq can't wait to explore...

Author

M.A. Griffin

Fear haunts the streets of Manchester: a schoolgirl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. Deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine. Captured and condemned to a cavernous space filled with...

Author

Kate Avery Ellison

*This novella takes place during Bluewing, #4 in The Frost Chronicles series*

Adam Brewer has a past, and he doesn't like to speak about it. Few know his journey from refugee to Thorns agent. Even fewer know the extent of his feelings for a certain fierce young woman. Stuck in a prison cell, he...

Author

Dom Testa

When the tail of the comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth’s atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its wake, and mankind is confronted with a virus that devastates the adult population. A renowned scientist proposes a bold plan: to build a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in...

Author	Andrea Askowitz
ISBN	1573443158

In this memoir of her 40 weeks and five days in hell, Andrea Askowitz takes an unflinching look at her pregnant life from struggling with hormones to poor body image to a self imposed exile from family to take us on a ride through the turbulence of single lesbian motherhood. Along the way we meet her liberal...

Author

Sulari Gentill

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

No, wait.

I'm kinda mad, too.

I LOVE myths and legends. I love epic sagas with quests and heroes and mythical creatures and gods. So, obviously, I'm a big fan of Homer's The Odyssey. Odysseus himself is one of my favourite characters to...