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Ever

by Levine, Gail Carson

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash pro...

House of Many Ways

by Jones, Diana Wynne

When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house...

The Land of the Silver Apples

by Farmer, Nancy

THE CHILDREN FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS BRAVE THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES -- UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and on...

Into the Woods

by Gardner, Lyn

Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any-...

Gregor and the Code of Claw

Book Five in the Underland Chronicles

by Collins, Suzanne

When twelve-year-old Gregor finally learns the ancient prophecy, which foretells his death, he must gather his courage to defend Regalia from the army of rats,...

Blue Lipstick

Concrete Poems

by Grandits, John

A 15-year-old girl named Jessie voices typical--and not so typical--teenage concerns in this unique, hilarious collection of poems. Her musings about trying ou...

The Neddiad

by Pinkwater, Daniel

When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian...

How It Happened in Peach Hill

by Jocelyn, Marthe

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ...

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Stewart, Trenton Lee

After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for...

Jazz

by Myers, Walter Dean

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.