This is the first book in a series that takes place a few decades after the original Unwanted series. Featuring old characters as well as new, it focuses mainly on the twin sisters, Thisbe and Fifer. Both have extreme power in magic yet are not very adept at controlling when it comes out and how, making them a danger to those living in Artime. Their older brother Alex is constantly restricting them from advancing in their magical training for fear that they will hurt somebody like they had done in the past.
A nineteen-year-old princess who only wants to travel the world is forced into waiting for the winning prince in the games to be her husband. But maybe her stepmother has a way out. Maybe there is a way out of waiting for the strongest prince to win her. Maybe there is a way she can marry someone of value. Maybe it involves a sneaky, old, tired but kind dragon.
In the book Aaden Bluestar: The Awakening, Aaden Green is just an everyday kid. He goes to school, watches baseball, and has normal friends. The only thing particularly special about him is that his father is a senator. Everything changes, though, when he tries to get his baseball out of a tree and gets struck by lightning.
The Cilantro in Apple Pie, Kimberley Nadine Knights’ contemporary young adult debut, reveals 16-year-old Trinidad and Tobago native Rubie Keane's journey to Mellowbrook, Massachusetts, where Rubie’s older sister Violet and Violet’s new husband Dennis Peterson live—and where Rubie’s ailing parents decide she’ll continue her education at nearby private high school Lumiere Hall, essentially a feeder school for the Ivy League.
Pack and Sydney are back in Learning from the Dead. When we last left our heroes, their quest to save Mrs. Wamdoffer and find out if Pack is the real Kylxon had hit a little bump in the road. Now they are ready to get back on track and find out what really happened in the deal between Mrs. Wamdoffer and Mr. Memmer. One long bus ride later, they find themselves in the town of Crosswater. It takes them a while, but they finally track down Mrs.
Just as every Eyloni before her, Kidahin becomes an adult when she takes part in the adulthood ceremony. Soon after this important event, she is put to work on the ship Hunter’s Moon. But things do not go as planned and the ship is forced to land on a nearby moon to make repairs. This is where Kidahin meets Chief Warrant Officer Del Marsch. But unlike any other Eyloni before her, she forms a relationship with this human once he offers to train her. This comes as a surprise to both the humans and Eyloni, as they are two very different species.
West To Grand Portage is historical fiction set in Montreal in the year 1766. Sixteen-year-old Phillippe Chabot lands a job as a voyageur. He and a group of men will be steering canoes from their hometown Montreal across Lake Superior and on to Grand Portage to trade with Native Americans.
