July 5, 2024

The Picture Visitors: A Case for the Van Gogh Agency

Thirteen-year-old Vincent has a very special talent: He can jump into paintings and move around inside them. When the painting The Thunderstorm by an old Dutch painter is stolen from a London mansion, Vincent decides to track it down. During his search, to his great surprise, he meets Holly, who can dive into paintings just like him. The two make a bet: Whoever finds The Thunderstorm first, wins. Vincent is sure he will be faster, but the search turns out to be difficult, and then something is wrong with Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. Why is it that when Vincent […]
July 5, 2024

The Forest Demands Its Due

Regent Academy had a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious–and even more entangled with the forest–than anyone would suspect. Seventeen-year-old Douglas wants nothing to do with Regent’s king-making; he’s just trying to forget his previous life and survive his present. But then a student is killed, and no one except Douglas and the groundskeeper’s son, Everett, remembers him ever existing. As Douglas begins to research what he finds […]
May 3, 2024
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Infinity Alchemist

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love and extraordinary power. Acclaimed author Kacen Callender turns their formidable skill to young-adult fantasy for the first time. The story follows Ash Woods, a young alchemist who must hide his practice of alchemy due to strict laws governing its use. Magic used to be believed as a gift only for special people. Now, it’s known that anyone can become an alchemist. But legally, only licensed alchemists can use advanced energy. The first tier is open to everyone, involving basic life […]
May 3, 2024

Deficient

The near future is progressively free from discrimination based on race, class and sexual orientation. But in a world populated by the gifted, fifteen-year-old Alejandro Aragon (Alé) is part of the only remaining minority – he’s a Deficient. Powerless. The one that accelerated genetics left behind. Ale knows that he’ll need a miracle to graduate and pursue his dream of a legal career in the capital. His only ally is his best friend Yalamba, an outspoken and exceptionally gifted artist renowned for her unique ability to draw things into existence. But when she’s kidnapped in a hate crime against her […]
February 2, 2024

Monster vs. Boy

On the edge of town, a boy named Dawz lives with his sister and their uncle-turned-adoptive-father, Pop. No one in their ramshackle house knows that a monster – who is smaller than a bear cub – lives in Dawz’s bedroom closet. She calls herself Mim. When a series of events forces Mim to leave her closet, she sets out on a quest to unlock the magic of books, but will Dawz be willing to help her? The story of a monster who desperately wants to be seen and the reluctant boy who wishes he weren’t the only one who could, […]
June 2, 2023

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the four survivors have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: They’ve been summoned by the ghost of the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended and restart the deadly game―an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions. Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly and make sacrifices―blood, clothes, secrets, memories and worse. And once […]
June 2, 2023

The Everlasting Road

Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has regained her position of power in that virtual world, and while the remaining Clan:LESS members still plot against her, she is easily able to overcome their attacks. Even better, she has been working secretly on a bot that will be both an incredible weapon and a source of comfort: Waawaate. With the Waawaate bot looking exactly like the brother she misses so much—even acting like him — Bugz feels […]
April 7, 2023

Ghostlight

Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell—or were they pushed?—remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. One teen’s summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidentally summons the spirit of a dead girl—and she has demands. The award-winning author of Airborn delivers a roller-coaster ride of a story about the wakeful and wicked dead. “Rebecca Strand was sixteen the first time she saw her father kill a ghost.” […]
January 6, 2023

The Medusa Deep

Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged into service on Sorcerer, the airship that’s haunted his dreams since the last midnight games, and quickly discovers its terrifying secrets. Now Nate is headed just where he doesn’t want to go, to the Pacific Ocean, where a Great Old One, […]
November 5, 2022

The Grave Thief

A twelve-year-old grave thief gets caught up in a royal heist in this compelling middle-grade fantasy in the vein of Kelley Armstrong’s A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying. Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief. With his father and brother, he digs up the recently deceased to steal jewels, the main form of trade in Wyndhail. Digging graves works for Spade — alone in the graveyard at night, no one notices his limp or calls him names. He’s headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. […]