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When Princess Anastasia Romanov's life is torn apart by revolution, she and her family are exiled to Siberia. As their captivity stretches out, the threat of death by firing squad grows stronger. But despite the menacing circumstances, a secret romance blossoms between Anastasia and a young guard named Sasha. Will their love prove strong enough to help Anastasia and her family? Inspired by the mysteries surrounding the Romanovs, this is a compelling and romantic vision of what might have been.
"[This] magnetic reimagining of Anastasia's story has the potential to reach a broad audience." -Publishers Weekly
Publication Date: 03/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
London teenager Will Hodge is miserable. His mother is dead, his father's political leanings have grown radical, and his friends barely talk to him. To top it off, he's having nightmares about things like concentration camps. Then Will notices he's being followed by a group of people who claim to know him from another time in history. It turns out they are Returners, reincarnated people who carry with them the memory of atrocities they have witnessed in the past. Will realizes that he, too, is a Returner. But something about his memories is different, and with dawning horror, Will suspects that he wasn't just a witness to the events, he was instrumental in making them happen. Set in the near future, with the world on the verge of a new wave of ethnic cleansing, Will must choose to confront the cruelty he's known in his past lives, or be doomed to repeat it...
Publication Date: 03/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Eerie Moments is the story about a young U.S. Airforce Squadron Leader who is on a holiday trip. The flight is hijacked by three men. One of them ruthlessly shoots the pilots dead in a scuffle. Stephen takes over the aircraft and lands the flight miraculously in Congo, the land of the cannibals. There is a flashback to Stephen's life when previously he lands his warplane in Congo and meets Llana, the daughter who is fascinated by him. Stephen too is not able to cast away her memory even after leaving the place for a while. He is haunted by her and fate brings him back to Congo. He finds that she really does not belong there and decides to take her along with him. He knew that both of them could not live without each other.
Publication Date: 03/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: The Mouthy Prince is an adventure story set during the last decades of independent Celtic Britain. As a man, Caradoc will lead the resistance against the Romans, but for now he must escape, survive, and save the girl he loves.
Publication Date: 02/28/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: The Summer and Shiner tale continues... Travel back with Carley and his best friend, Troop, as they once again dive into adventure, mischief, and fun. Join them in their antics at school and as they save Big Louie, the giant catfish. There are Halloween hijinks, a daring rescue for Shiner, and more trouble than Carley bargained for this school year. You'll recognize some old familiar faces and be introduced to new ones-the terrifying schoolmarm, Miss Both, Carley's new rival, Moose Harrigan, and a girl Carley would rather not know, Toby Swanson. And Carley welcomes a brand new friend. Don't miss his excitement or the journey back to Turtle Creek and Carley's hometown.
Publication Date: 02/28/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: By The Time I'm Twenty is a one-act play with an antiviolence message for the youth in urban cities across this country—say no to drugs and stay in school. The story centers on Lawrence, a fifteen-year-old who wants to make it big in the hood by selling drugs out of his parent's home. He wants jewelry, name brand gym shoes, and popularity. However, when the two friends who talked him into selling drugs are killed in the crack house they were running, he has a change of heart. This decision evolves into a web of trouble he thought wouldn't happen. Now he must ask himself a million-dollar question: Will he make it to twenty?
Publication Date: 02/26/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Fantastic illustrations with a fresh, contemporary look enrich this debut novel about a 10-year-old aspiring artist stuck living with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who clearly don't recognize her genius. A humorous and heartfelt reminder that "a brilliant artist is never afraid," this book reveals that sometimes our greatest masterpieces are the bonds we unexpectedly forge with the people in our lives.
Publication Date: 02/24/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: DEMON-FIGHTING RIVALS
Mitsuki and Kakeru are childhood friends—and rivals! When Mitsuki is attacked by a demon, she and Kakeru discover that they have magical powers. An ancient scroll decrees that they must work together to save the world from a demon invasion. And so begins a demon-filled adventure. . . .
Mitsuki and Kakeru are childhood friends—and rivals! When Mitsuki is attacked by a demon, she and Kakeru discover that they have magical powers. An ancient scroll decrees that they must work together to save the world from a demon invasion. And so begins a demon-filled adventure. . . .
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who enjoy chapter books with more complexity or entry-level middle grade novels.
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet and his wife, Elspeth Graham, team up for a captivating, lushly illustrated tale evoking a Chinese legend. (Age 4 and up)
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Tashi lives in a tiny village at the foot of the mountains, below the tea plantations where her mother works. When her mother falls ill, Tashi goes alone to the plantation, hoping to earn money for the doctor. But she is far too small to harvest the tender shoots, and her clumsy efforts anger the cruel Overseer. She is desolate, until -- chack-chack-chack! -- something extraordinary happens. Inspired by a centuries-old legend of tea-picking monkeys, here is a richly told tale full of vivid characters: the heartless Overseer, the enigmatic Royal Tea Taster, and -- far away -- an empress with a penchant for tea.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 5 - 8
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic.
Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind?
Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind?
Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In this beautiful follow-up to the highly acclaimed My One Hundred Adventures, Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he doesn’t speak French), the family packs up and Jane embarks on a series of new adventures. At first, she imagines her family as a gang of outlaws, riding on horseback in masks, robbing trains, and traveling all the way to Mexico. But the reality is different: Setting off by car, they visit the tribe of Native Americans with whom Ned once lived, head to Las Vegas in search of Ned’s magician brother, and wind up spending the summer with his eccentric mother on her ranch out west. As Jane lives through it all—developing a crush on a ranch hand, reevaluating her relationship with Ned, watching her sister Maya’s painful growing up—she sees her world, which used to be so safe and secure, shift in strange and inconvenient ways.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis: When one of Dr. Megan Chase’s patients is convinced his problems stem from demonic possession by a “minister,” Megan can’t do anything about it without revealing the truth about her psychic abilities. Still, she’s determined to stop the less-than-holy man. Since the minister is holding a “Weekend Exorcism” next door, Megan figures she can kill two birds with one stone—but it may be Megan who is in danger of being killed. Someone’s planning on killing her and using the meeting to deflect blame. Meanwhile, Megan’s lover Greyson has become vulnerable to assassination, and what was supposed to be a relaxing, romantic weekend turns into a life or death, love or loss situation.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: London, 1783. Orphan Cirrus Flux is being watched. Merciless villains are conniving to steal the world’s most divine power—The Breath of God—which they believe Cirrus has inherited. Now he faces a perilous journey through the dirty backstreets of the city as a sinister mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel pursue him. Cirrus must escape them, but he’ll need to trust some unlikely allies if he hopes to thwart his foes . . . and survive a grand and terrifying showdown.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Ebram Casas-Treski gets the shock of his life when he moves to a new town and learns that he will not be finishing elementary school at the top grade level but going to middle school instead. But loneliness, isolation, and bullies are only the beginning of his problem. Something mysterious is going on, on Texas Thistle Avenue, and it's difficult to ignore. Ice from the tap and in the toilet? Strange voices inside his siblings' heads? His grandfather's story about El Día de los Muertos? And then there are the flying Santas! Ebram needs an answer, and the truth is not what he thinks. Enter the Shroudas, a strange group of tweens and teens who challenge the community with their active belief in doing good and helping others as themselves. But are they too uncool for Ebram to befriend? Parents and children will be drawn into this inspiring first book of author Esther Locascio's Ebram's Story series. The mystery has just begun. Join in the adventure and find out how Ebram gains self-confidence and a sense of purpose. Locascio also extends to readers an invitation to incorporate service to others into their daily lives.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Regina is only 3-1/4 inches tall, but she knows from the moment she wakes up in her dollhouse bed that she is a princess. Why else would she have such a lovely pink gown? Why else would she have such golden hair and flawless skin? And why else would she have a four-foot, curly-haired human creature to wait on her? Meanwhile Zoey, that four-foot, curly-haired creature, has always dreamed that someday one of her dolls would come alive. But in her dreams, the doll never ordered her around. The doll didn’t call her a servant. And the doll was a whole lot nicer!
In a classic storyteller’s voice, Marion Dane Bauer tells an exquisite tale of friendship, family, and loss, laced with humor and joy.
In a classic storyteller’s voice, Marion Dane Bauer tells an exquisite tale of friendship, family, and loss, laced with humor and joy.
Publication Date: 02/23/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Ma?ic It's not a typo. The question mark gets to the heart of the word. Is magic real? It depends on what you believe. Katie, a shy teenager, is starting to believe that magic is real, not something only in books. Katie has discovered that by drawing sketches of what she wants in her DreamScraps journal, she can alter her reality. Soon Katie learns to travel to other sublens, alternative dimensions, curled up in sub-length units of space. In the sublen Narfar, she meets: Hazel, an age-shifter who changes appearance randomly between various ages; Emily, a girl who, like Katie, discovered the DreamScrap dimensions on her own; Dazi, the brave heartthrob; Elizabeth and Lana, girlfriends and DreamScrap students with Katie under Hazel; And . DarkDreamers, an army of anti-magic pessimists led by power-hungry Elena. Can Katie and friends reopen the portals to the sublens that Elena closed? Will Katie learn enough DreamScrap magic to fulfill her destiny as Mystérieux, liaison to Dardale, keeper of the portals? And, most importantly . Is magic real? What do you believe?
Publication Date: 02/22/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy