Koala Hospital
Kirkus Reviews 2015-07-15 This book, abundant with color photographs, takes readers into the world's only hospital solely for koalas. Both a table of contents and brightly colored banners throughout the book help readers home in on their particular interests. However, the text is short and accessible enough so that the book can be read in […]
Winter
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 Gr 8 Up—In the final installment of the "Lunar Chronicles" series (Feiwel & Friends), readers are introduced to Princess Winter, the beautiful stepdaughter of the villainous Queen Levana. Forced to scar her own face as a child and driven mad by her refusal to use her Lunar gift to control people, […]
Unforgiven
Kirkus Reviews 2015-10-06 The long-standing Fallen series continues with bad boy fallen angel Cam trying to win back his lost love from ancient Israel, entering into a deal with the devil to do it. In 1,000 B.C.E. Cam and Lilith fell in love, but Cam broke Lilith's heart. Now he learns something he has been […]
Gatefather
Overview In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to […]
Library of Souls
Overview Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They’ll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. . […]
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/08/2015 Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more. Three dwarves discover a realm in which everyone has fallen asleep, and they cross into the next country to warn its queen of the great plague that threatens her […]
SandRider
Kirkus Reviews 2015-07-27 Alice TodHunter Moon, Apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap, will need both her Magykal and PathFinding abilities to retrieve a lost Orm Egg from the evil sorcerer Oraton-Marr before it hatches. The Orm Egg timer is counting down the hours until the hatching. But other than a vague idea that the […]
Greywaren
The Luck Uglies
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2014 In Durham's witty fantasy debut, 11-year-old Rye O'Chanter is bent on mischief with her friends Quinn and Folly. They live in Village Drowning, a muddy place haunted by tales of ravenous Bog Noblins, vicious creatures from Beyond the Shale, and criminal Luck Uglies, outlaw robbers long since driven away by the Earl […]
Fork-Tongue Charmers
Booklist (starred review) Praise for the series:“By turns funny and heart-stopping. A bona-fide page-turner.”