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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay. When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced...
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Tell the Wind and Fire

Sarah Rees Brennan · Clarion Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

"Sarah Rees Brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire." - Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg and Spoon In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light...
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The Siege

Mark Alpert · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Mission: Sabotage.Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability-and freedom comes at a price....
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Eight Rivers of Shadow

Leo Hunt · Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

In a high-stakes sequel, reluctant necromancer Luke Manchett must call upon the most wicked and eerie ghosts of his dispelled Host to save two innocent souls.It's been a few months since Luke Manchett inherited a Host of eight hostile spirits from his dead father and made a deal with the devil...
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Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

Kathryn J Atwood · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Women Heroes of World War II - The Pacific Theater is a collective biography featuring 15 women who were involved with and affected by the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Through suspenseful, fast-paced narrative, readers are introduced to the variety of roles women filled...
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Seeker

VERONICA ROSSI · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Veronica Rossi's new fantasy adventure in the Rider series -- Seeker .When Daryn claimed she was seeing "visions" during her sophomore year of high school, no one believed the truth. She wasn't losing her mind, she was gaining the Sight...
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H2O

Virginia Bergin · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

.27 is a number Ruby hates.Its a number that marks the percentage of the population that has survived. Its a number that means shes one of the lucky few still standing. And its a number that says her father is probably dead. Against all odds, Ruby has survived the catastrophic onset of the killer...
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Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident Graphic Novel

Eoin Colfer · Turtleback; 1 edition
Format: Book

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this second graphic novel installment of the series, fans can follow along as the world's youngest criminal mastermind rushes to save a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his own father.
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The Grimm Conclusion

Adam Gidwitz · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim. Cinderellas stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds. Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half. And in a tale called The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Yes, the sausage talks. Okay,...
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Quidditch Through the Ages

Kennilworthy Whisp · Arthur A Levine
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need Quidditch Through the Ages. This invaluable volume is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost...
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Snowbirds

CRISSA-JEAN CHAPPELL · MERIT PR
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Snowbirds will turn your image of the Amish upside down. Lucy will grab your heart and run away with it." --Robin MacCready, winner of the Edgar award for Buried Every year, Lucy waits eagerly for the arrival of the "snowbirds," the Old Order Amish who come trundling...
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The Siren

Kiera Cass · HarperTeen
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a captivating stand-alone fantasy romance.Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human - a kind,...
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When

Victoria Laurie · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father's premature death for Maddie and her family...
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The Bone Witch

Rin Chupeco · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price...When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that...
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The Light Fantastic

Sarah Combs · Candlewick
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare...
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