Capturing all the famous, girly gleefulness of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot turns her eye to historical romance. Nicola Sparks, sixteen and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first London Season. A whirlwind of fashionable activities awaits her, although nabbing a husband, ordinarily the ... more »

With this debut book of a new mystery series, Wendelin Van Draanen establishes Samantha Keyes as a crime fighter to watch. Though, actually, the book opens with Sammy watching...a crime in progress. And when the man with the wad of cash in one hand and the open purse in the other catches Sammy watching ... more »

I should be an all-star. I should be player of the game! All my coach had to do was open her eyes. Then she'd see my all-star, MVP, All-American potential and I could start filling up my trophy case. Yet for reasons beyond my comprehension, I ended up riding the pine and singing the blues ninety-nine ... more »

Louis Chatelain has fallen in love! He has fallen so hard; that he knows it is for life. But Louis messes up so badly that he despairs of ever retrieving his chosen love. This is a story about royalty, with romance, mystery, murder and mayhem! Will Elissa be crowned queen of Frencolia? The king of all ... more »

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal ... more »

A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to ... more »

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Maggie's Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination--the home of Nory's sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America. Patricia Reilly Giff calls upon her long research ... more »

THE HOBBIT MEETS WIND IN THE WILLOWS Here is an enchanting fantasy for the young of all ages that only the Balrog and Mark Twain Award author, Ardath Mayhar, could have written. When Lindy and Bud, a sister and brother from the U.S.A., are forced to spend the summer on their uncle's English farm, they ... more »

The new kid at North Hill Academy cannot believe he is idolized as the next Sherlock Holmes by his roommate, until he heroically rescues a girl from a motorcycle gang. His confidence is a bit shaken, though, when he finds a student lying on her back in the snow--dead! more »

Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development ... more »

Enough games, the man said, raising the gun yet again. And enough of the Population Police, I say. This time he cocked the gun and aimed carefully. This is real, Luke thought. This is really going to happen. No, don't! he screamed. Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only ... more »