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The Barkers are going to adopt a child, and twins Morgie and Moffie couldn't be more excited.

Life is hard for 12-year-old Lucas. First Uncle Asa dies of consumption, then Lizy and Pa. Now Mama is sick. And Lucas is the only one left to take care of her and their Connecticut farm.

Dave's carefree life of pranks and stickball in his Lower East Side New York neighborhood ends the day his papa dies.

Darek and his family and friends are returning from their dragonquest with something different: Zantor, a live baby dragon.

When the village Elder tries to buy Darek's blue dragon for his daughter, Darek refuses to sell.

Darek is envious when his older brother, Clep, returns from a quest wearing dragon claws for a necklace. His brother has killed a Great Blue, the largest and most feared of all dragons.

Eleven-year-old Nhamo is running for her life.

Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo.

Although he's only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been.

In Audrey Shafer's compelling debut novel, Gabe Pace remains trapped in Virginia's foster care system until a social worker finds his Uncle Vernon.

Crash Coogan is a big jock. As long as he can remember, he has crashed through life, running over anyone or anything that stands in his way.

Although the legend of King Arthur has been told many times, rarely have the villains of the tale been given voices.

Thirteen-year-old Tyler loves spending the summer in New York with his cousin. Each day, they play baseball in a Central Park league. Tyler is a sharp hitter, so he hopes to become an All-Star.

The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who must recapture the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles in order to redeem herself in front of

Based on the chilling true story of the last execution in Denmark's history, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy dese