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Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.

While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well.

After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game vent

The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgments are released upon the world.

The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again.

Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them.

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.

When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.<

A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jonas has to help him survive in the complex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."

A careful tracing of the movements of both the Union and Confederate armies which offers fascinating vignettes of daily life within the ranks.

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding.

When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but these characters hailed from one period.

Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.