SUMMARY: When Whit & Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a h...
SUMMARY: Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy...
Amazon.com ReviewWise Blood is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O'Connor has no truck with such newfangled notions as psychology. Driven by forces outside thei....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" (*Denver Post*) in his first major short story collection.** The Hugo Award-winning author of such grou...
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a...
JACK AND ANNIE, joined by Teddy and Kathleen (from earlier books), travel in the Magic Tree House to a land of snow where the Ice Wizard has captured Morgan and Merlin. The four fr...
SUMMARY: In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for hea...
SUMMARY:From a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look at the planes sitting shi...
Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hover...