The Moorchild
Clockwork Prince
VOYA Many times second books in a series fall short of readers' expectations. Not so with Clockwork Prince. From the first page, readers are in the grip of an almost Shakespearean rollercoaster ride with a curse, a betrayal, a death, a secret marriage, a proposal, an impending birth, a long-lost relative, magic, and love—both given […]
Clockwork Angel
VOYA Tessa, a sixteen-year-old orphan, travels solo across the Atlantic to Victorian England to join her brother in London. But her brother doesn’t meet her at the port—the Dark Sisters do. The Sisters keep Tessa captive while teaching her to use her “talent,” the ability to change into anyone else, dead or alive. Eventually Tessa […]
Bird Songs : a Backwards Counting Book
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Franco (Mathematickles!) and 2004 Caldecott Honor artist Jenkins (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?) celebrate the free concert that birds perform for backyard audiences every day. There's a method to their merriment: as the book introduces various species, it uses their sounds to count down from 10 […]
Pirate Curse
School Library Journal Review: Gr 6-9?Fourteen-year-old Jolly is a polliwog. She can literally walk on water. Raised by a pirate captain, she loves her life until Bannon and his crew are betrayed and only Jolly escapes. She is washed up on a tiny island, discovered by Munk (another polliwog), and quickly drawn into the plans […]
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 3?This imaginary adventure combines a boy's two passions?pirates and prehistoric animals. Flinn's markers run out while he is drawing a dinosaur at school and he goes to the supply closet to get more. There he discovers a sobbing pirate who explains that his ship has been stolen. Along with three […]