When Bobby Phillips, average fifteen-year-old boy, wakes up one morning to discover he’s become invisible, his life is thrown into turmoil. Unable to interact with the outside world, and forced to contend with parents more apt to treat his condition … Continue reading
David’s new to the city, so he’s quite pleased when he makes a new friend, Leilah. She in turn introduces him to the existence of magic in their midst, in the form of the absent-minded, second-class wizard who lives in … Continue reading
Book One: Wounded When sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson runs afoul of an accident while on a vacation in the wilderness, he’s initially relieved to be rescued, until he realizes that the strange, reclusive family has something other than his best interests … Continue reading
After a robbery goes horribly wrong, 14 year old bad girl Meg Finn is killed before her time. Thanks to a last minute change of heart (literally), she ends up balanced exactly between Heaven and Hell; one major effort either … Continue reading
Venice private investigator Victor Getz thinks it’s just business as usual when he takes on a case, to find a pair of runaway children who’ve come to Venice, expecting it to be the magical city of the stories their dead … Continue reading
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of a mouse, a rat, a princess, a serving girl, a spool of thread, and some soup. Recounted by an unnamed observer, it’s a modern fairy tale that evokes an older style of … Continue reading
In the future, in a place called Satellite City, it’s a very bad time and place to be an unwanted orphan. Cosmo Hill finds this out the hard way, when he’s sent to live at the Clarissa Frayne Institute, an … Continue reading
Martha (or as the bullies call her, Marthur) is a highly intelligent, good-hearted girl who lives with her father in the boiler room of a school where strange things happen on a daily basis. All she wants to do is … Continue reading
Appearing as a supplement to Black and DiTerlizzi’s excellent Spiderwick Chronicles series, this lovely little hardbound notebook is a potpourri of imaginative explorations based on the material introduced in the books. Each “section” is prefaced with a mini-essay regarding some … Continue reading
Sheltered by her upbringing as an ice priestess in the remote land of Antaris, a place emphatically set apart from the rest of the world by the massive magically-maintained Wall, Calwyn is unprepared for the destiny that meets her head-on … Continue reading
