From Printz medalist Marcus Sedgwick, a gripping novel about health—our own and our planet’s—and the stigma of illness.Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflak
In Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Després is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to the famous Salpetriere Asylum. And there the story might have stopped.But the doctor assigned to his
On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he’s stolen money from the narcos to smuggle his girlfrie
Like the six sides of a snowflake, the book has six chapters which explore the art, literature and science of snow. Written by a highly regarded author, this book is a unique and beautiful gift book t
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a g
Taught to recognize patterns in seemingly random events and numbers, blind Laureth Peak and her 7-year-old brother, Benjamin, become tangled in a mystery involving their father's disappearance that re
Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined—this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice. An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact
Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow. Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. T
THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life with
There never was a story that was happy through and through.When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the viol
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of this mesmerizing novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred st
One of School Library Journal’s Best Fiction Books of 2011Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow.?Thought provoking as well
A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his fath
