Children/Young Adult
Ghost Knight
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft is being sent to the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School where his late father once went. He’d convinced…
Splendors and Glooms
The title of this upper-middle-grade novel derives from Percy Shelley’s poem “Adonais”: “And others came … Desires and Adorations, /…
Such Wicked Intent
In this second book of The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series, we pick up not long after the death of…
Quest of the Gods: Attack of the Scorpion Raiders
The evil Pharaoh Obo has chosen to ally himself with Set, the Egyptian god of darkness. The good gods who…
Debutantes
1923, England. World War I is over and the country is partying. London is fizzing with new music, new fashions…
Silhouette of a Sparrow
When 16-year-old Garnet is sent to spend the summer with her wealthy aunt in Minnesota, she looks forward to an…
All Fall Down
Editors' choice
1349. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family live in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn. Farming is Isabel’s whole life, but that…
A Roman Rescue
Ancient Rome. Young Charlie and his dog Bandit fall down a hole and find themselves in Rome during the reign…
Alexandra’s Secret
Eighteen-year-old Alexandra Cockrell wants to save people from experiencing the same Nazi brutality that killed her grandparents in Belgium. Her…
Frozen
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose remembers very little of the time before she went to live with the Worthingtons at age five;…
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