Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories That Scared Even Me
A Fatal Advent
Death Sentence
The Black Tower
Wild Girl
Children's Literature Lidie has been waiting five long years to join her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York. When the time finally comes to pack up and leave her Aunt and Uncle in Brazil, Lidie has high expectations for what her American future will hold. None of these expectations, however, include a baby […]
Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage
Kirkus Reviews A stalwart young girl discovers the secrets of a benign witch's bungalow in this charming middle-grade fantasy. When intrepid 11-year-old Clover Twig goes to work for local witch Mrs. Eckles, she has no idea she's inadvertently placed herself in the middle of an age-old feud. Mrs. Eckles's slinky evil sister Mesmeranza has been […]
The Blue Shoe : a Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes
School Library Journal Gr 4–6—This tale begins with a mysterious blue-jeweled shoe and centers on the adventures of 13-year-old Hap Barlow, who gets imprisoned and is part of a slave revolt, and ends with the mystery of the shoe solved and a lesson on how not to mistreat the Earth. Elflike creatures called Aukis once […]
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
School Library Journal Gr 5–8—Seventh-grader Gianna Zales loves art and cross-country running. She is not so crazy about research projects or anything involving time-management skills, and has somehow gotten to within a week of the due date of a huge science assignment with no work to show. But how hard can it be to find […]
Dragon Games
School Library Journal Gr 5–8— This is a true roller coaster of a book, starting with sea-giants and ending with soul crabs (surely one of the creepier inventions in recent literary history), with plenty of loops and drops and zero-g moments in between. The mostly ebullient Lord Umber and his unusual ward, Happenstance, experience one […]
The Chiru of High Tibet : a True Story
Children's Literature Chiru are unique animals whose wool, called shahtoosh, "the king of wools," is "the warmest and the finest in the world." They live in Chang Tang, a bitterly cold area of Tibet. Every summer the females migrate to a secret place to give birth. When George B. Schaller learned about the chiru, he […]