From award-winning author Polly Hall comes a “lyrical debut” (Booklist, Starred Review) and contemporary gothic tale “filled with startling conclusions about the nature of art and love and death” ...

When Food Fights Open a Dimensional Rift.

When Shadow-monsters attack in the cafeteria, eighth-grader Penny Preston panics, starts a food fight and unknowingly creates a trans-dimensional rift. Summoned ...

She knows a liar when she sees one. He knows a fraud when he meets one.

In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, ...

Jude and his friends are penniless, jobless, and spend most of their days at the Shack bartering for booze. They have known each other for years, yet they don’t know much about each other. That is until ...

A girl of the desert and a jinni born long ago by the sea, both enslaved to the Salt King—but with this capricious magic, only one can be set free.

As a daughter of the Salt King, Emel ought to be among ...

There’s more to this scepter than meets the eye.

Eighth grader Penny Preston unwittingly releases two time-travelers from the distant past. One is an elf-like spirit from Celtic myth with a penchant ...

The terrorist threat has changed. The consequences haven’t.

When her fiancé, a CIA operative accused of treason, is killed overseas, intelligence analyst Maggie Jenkins smells cover-up and sets out ...

How do you succeed where a legend failed?

Eighth-grader Penny Preston thought she knew how to handle the Bodach, spirits from the 5th dimension. But when a primordial power threatens to tear the fabric ...

While every writer’s dream is to write characters that come to life, Michael Schatten wakes up in a nightmare.

Suffering from writer’s block, Michael Schatten books himself into a remote beachside ...

Can an American professor and Chinese activist students change Chinese history?

In mid-April 1989, in the days leading up to the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre, former US Marine Dan Norton was finishing ...