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Amelia Jones is back at Mystwick—the magical boarding school where students cast spells through music—after a time-bending adventure in Europe. But her life is far from back to normal, as she and her best friends Jai and Darby discover a disturbing change in their magic that could threaten their place at Mystwick. And that’s not the only shock awaiting Amelia. When she’s invited to spend spring break with her long-lost (and outrageously wealthy) paternal grandfather, she hopes this is her chance to learn more about her mysterious father's childhood and his villainous career.

The second book in the middle-grade dystopian fantasy series that Kirkus Reviews calls “The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter,” by New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann. Following the life-altering events at the conclusion of The Unwanteds, the stark world of Quill and the magical...

What if the answers you seek cannot be heard… but only felt? The Traveler and the Whispering Tree is a beautifully illustrated and deeply reflective story that invites young listeners into a quiet journey of self-discovery, patience, and inner wisdom. Eldrin, a thoughtful young traveler, journeys through forests and misty hills in search of a legendary tree said to hold the answers to life’s deepest questions. When he finally finds the ancient oak, he expects clear guidance. Instead, he is met with silence.

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an...

I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother. But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.

Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helen’s mother makes the harrowing decision to take her children from their home in 1940s Germany and leave them in the care of strangers in France. The brother and sister must hide their Jewish identity to pass for orphans being fostered at a convent in the foreign land.

Francine lives down the street from a Hollywood film studio, adores screen dreamboat Montgomery Clift, and sometimes sees her home life as a scene from a movie: Dinner at the Greens. She wishes she were a movie star, brave and glamorous and always ready to say the right thing. In reality...

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