Editors' Choice

Hell’s Underground Series: Scared to Death

By Alan Gibbons - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Paul Rector is a well-behaved school boy who rarely breaks the rules. His only immediate family is his very protective mother, who inwardly ...Read Review

Hell’s Underground Series: Witch Breed

By Alan Gibbons - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Paul Rector is a well-behaved school boy who rarely breaks the rules. His only immediate family is his very protective mother, who inwardly ...Read Review

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

By Mary Downing Hahn - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

When 12-year-old Florence boards the horse-drawn coach in London that will take her from the orphanage where she’s spent the past seven ...Read Review

The Mourning Emporium

By Michelle Lovric - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

In this standalone sequel to The Undrowned Child, Michelle Lovric has provided another rip-roaring tale of amazing ingenuity and inventiveness. The date is ...Read Review

Dakota, Or What’s a Heaven For

By Brenda K. Marshall - Published 2010

Genres:

SagaWestern

This dense, splendid novel, set in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s and ’80s, rests on the shoulders of two extraordinary women. Frances, ...Read Review

The Wake of the Lorelei Lee

By L. A. Meyer - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

L. A. Meyer has penned another winner in The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, the eighth installment in the brilliantly entertaining, often madcap 19...Read Review

The Mistress of Nothing

By Kate Pullinger - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Sally Naldrett is lady’s maid to Lady Duff Gordon, who suffers from terrible fits of coughing. Sally and her mistress spend the ...Read Review

Revolver

By Marcus Sedgwick - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

1910: the Scandinavian Arctic. Sixteen-year-old Sig Andersson’s stepmother and sister, Anna, are out. He is alone in the log cabin, save for the ...Read Review

The Wolves of Andover

By Kathleen Kent - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Kathleen Kent’s debut book, The Heretic’s Daughter, was one of the most memorable novels I read last year. Kent’s second ...Read Review

Cate of the Lost Colony

By Lisa Klein - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen Elizabeth invites her to ...Read Review

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