Showing results for "Fog" in Teen & Young Adult

Will Maine's historic Schooner Inne Bed and Breakfast be a safe haven for the island kids boarding during the school year - or the end of them all? Christina Romney is thirteen, with a personality that matches her unruly but charming tri-colored hair. She is about to start seventh grade, and for kids from Maine's Burning Fog Island, that means leaving their little white schoolhouse for regular classrooms and life on the mainland. Everyone assures Christina it will be a fantastic year.

Hundreds of seasons ago, a wizard's war scarred the earth, leaving a malevolent fog blanketing the land, and carrying the settlements within it like ships adrift at sea. The phantoms the fog creates are deadly to adults, so children must guard the walls now, and care for each other.

Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness’s dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price.

An ordinary girl faces an extraordinary choice in this gripping, coming-of-age tale of secrets and courage set in Nazi Germany, perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Munich, 1931. Gretchen Muller has been cherished and protected by Adolf Hitler ever since her father, a senior Nazi officer, sacrificed himself to save the life of the Führer. And now Germany has the chance to be great once more, under the command of her 'Uncle Dolf'.

Flame hat für die Rettung der Erde ihr Leben geopfert und ist nun wiedererwacht auf der Insel der Seligen. Um sie zu befreien, folgen der Halbgott Cato und Ladon der Prophezeiung der Seherin und reisen ans Ende der Welt. Doch vorher muss sich Ladon seiner Vergangenheit – und dem Urteil der Drakon – stellen. Unterdessen wartet auf Flames Freunde eine neue Schlacht: Die gefährlichste Macht des Universums hat ihre jahrhundertealten Ketten gesprengt. Dieser Feind dürstet nach Rache und eine Unschuldige wird zur Zielscheibe seines unbändigen Zorns.