Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend. They frequently speak in metaphors and make peculiar assumptions, saying such odd things as "I take it your journey went well," when that is not the case at all. But von Igelfeld settles in the best he can, and is soon deeply embroiled in some shady political scheming at the university. After returning to the...

The first of a middle-grade trilogy following a girl uncovering a hidden world of magic in the wake of her mothers disappearance. The Secret Garden meets A Wrinkle in Time, Greenwild is an emotionally gripping, modern classic in the making. Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself ... Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering...

"The evil wizard Maldred has stolen the Gold and Silver Keys which will allow him to release the Naga, the powerful Earthquake Dragon at the center of the earth -- so Drake and several of the other Dragon Masters travel to the Naga's Temple in the Dragon Islands, to try and stop Maldred, and prevent him and the Earthquake Dragon from destroying the kingdom." -- Publisher's description.

Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure...or...

If Sean Courtland's truck had broken down somewhere else, he wouldn't have met Denise Givens, a waitress, or another young man drifting through a Wisconsin town that is still haunted by the disappearance of three young boys in the 1970's.