Tag Archives: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror

James And The Giant Peach

Rating: (226 reviews)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little–in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest [...]

Marvel Encyclopedia

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Tom DeFalco
Publisher: DK Publishing

Product Description
Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with The Marvel Encyclopedia! Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel’s greatest-from well-known characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine to lesser known heroes and villains.
An essential book both for new [...]

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials

Rating: (915 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.
Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. [...]

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, Book 6)

Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead’s epic series!
Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.

Magic Tree House #35: Night of the New Magicians

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a 100 years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their [...]

The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, Book 1) (Bk. 1)

Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Michael Buckley
Publisher: Amulet

Product Description
Nancy Drew meets Shrek in this funny, exciting new series of mysteries set in a community of fairy-tale characters. In the first book, The Sisters Grimm (Book One): The Fairy-Tale Detectives, we meet Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, two seeming orphans from New York City, who have been sent [...]

Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:
 

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of [...]

Dragonflight

Rating: (191 reviews)
Author: Anne Mccaffrey
Publisher: Del Rey

Product Description
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?
To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has [...]

Evernight

Rating: (162 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Bianca wants to escape.
She’s been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
Then she meets Lucas. He’s not the “Evernight type” either, [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (rack)

Rating: (150 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins

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A deadly love triangle
Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother [...]

GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET R L STINE’S: FRIGHT CHRISTMAS CASSETTE (R.L. Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street Series)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Audioworks

Product Description
Kenny Frobisher is the biggest bully in Shadyside, and Santa is watching him do rotten, nasty things. Kenny is out to ruin everyone’s holiday–until he gets trapped in a closet in Dalby’s Department Store on Christmas Eve. When Kenny finally gets out, the store is locked–and Kenny is [...]

Spider-Man 3: Meet the Heroes and Villains (I Can Read Book 2)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Harry Lime
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Peter Parker is lucky to have good friends in his life. And they are lucky to be friends with a hero like Spider-Man. As long as there are villains out there, the world will always need its heroes.

Fade Out

Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
Withoutthe evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville,the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again…
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins [...]

My Soul to Take

Rating: (98 reviews)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin

Product Description
She doesn’t see dead people, but…
She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal [...]

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

Rating: (2231 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival

Rating: (210 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns [...]

It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps Series)

Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic

Product Description
An evil, living creature called The Sponge appears to be an ordinary kitchen sponge, but thrives on human bad luck, which it deliberately causes and then sucks up while refusing to do the dishes.

Epic Battles (DK READERS)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Simon Beecroft
Publisher: DK CHILDREN

Product Description
More thrilling Star Wars episodes for young readers! Kids can continue their discovery of the fantastic Jedi knights, rogue rebels, heroic allies, and evil Sith lords that were loved by their parents’ generation, while strengthening their reading skills at the same time.
Explore the intergalactic star wars. Learn [...]

A Wrinkle in Time

Rating: (964 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the [...]

A Conspiracy of Kings

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Publisher: Greenwillow Books

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Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father’s villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would he go? But nothing prepares him [...]

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
IF YOU FAIL,
ALL IS
LOST.
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome [...]

The Christmas Ghost (Sweet Valley Twins)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Francine Pascal
Publisher: Sweet Valley

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Jessica Wakefield is determined to meet Beau Dillon, teen actor, even if it means double-crossing her own sister. But Jessica begins to feel guilty, and that night her actions catch up with her in a dream sequence similar to A Christmas Carol.

Enchanted Glass

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Product Description
Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble—a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melstone [...]

This Book Is Not Good For You (Secret)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, [...]

Archie’s Classic Christmas Stories

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Various
Publisher: Archie Comics

Product Description
Deck the halls with smiles and laughter, fa la la la la, la la la la! Since their inception, Archie and his friends have delighted readers with scores of Yuletide tales. These stories proved so popular that in 1954 an entire series devoted to stories of Holiday Cheer [...]

Cirque Du Freak #9: Killers of the Dawn: Book 9 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (35 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob. With their enemies clamoring for blood, the vampires prepare for a deadly battle. Is this the end for Darren and his allies?

Cirque Du Freak #10: The Lake of Souls: Book 10 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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“If you step through after Harkat, you might never come back. Is your friend worth such an enormous risk?” Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey? And what awaits [...]

Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)

Rating: (157 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description

Bianca wants to escape.

At the eerily Gothic Evernight Academy, the other students are sleek, smart, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
When she meets handsome, brooding Lucas, he warns her to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. But the connection between them can’t [...]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Mary-Jane Knight
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
It’s the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, “manual-size” POB with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.
 

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)

Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British [...]

How to Train Your Dragon Book 1

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Cressida Cowell
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon. Now available in paperback!

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books

Product Description
A perfect murder
A faceless witness
A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth . . . and he’s only thirteen years old
Meet Theodore Boone
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every [...]

Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Ally Carter
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
When Cammie “The Chameleon” Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she’s in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she’s there to watch Macey’s father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to [...]

Cirque Du Freak #6: The Vampire Prince: Book 6 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan-Darren Shan, the Vampire’s Assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince? Darren’s initiation on Vampire Mountain draws to a stunning, bloody conclusion-but the Saga continues [...]

Fright Christmas RL Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street 15 (Ghosts of Fear Street)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
Getting locked in a department store closet on Christmas Eve, Kenny Frobisher, the meanest bully in Shadyside, escapes the closet only to realize that he has been locked in the mall and will be visited by the ghosts of Fear Street.

Counterfeit Christmas (Nancy Drew Files #102)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Counterfeit twenties are circulating and Nancy’s prime suspect is a gorgeous guy who is attracted to her, but another suspect is found dead and Nancy is drawn into a world where greed rules and life is worthless.

This World We Live In (The Last Survivors, Book 3)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

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It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce.
 
The struggle to survive [...]

Fade Out (Morganville Vampires, Book 7)

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again…
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend [...]

Christmas Killer (Point)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Patricia Windsor
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
Nancy is missing, but not for Rose, who, each night, sees the missing girl in her dreams and begins to dread going to sleep at night. Reprint. C. AB. K.

A Christmas Carol: Original Text: The Graphic Novel (British English)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Classical Comics

Product Description
This is the classic novel brought to life in full colour! ‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future’. Classical Comics’ first Dickens title is probably his best-loved story. [...]

Warriors: Power of Three #6: Sunrise

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description

There will be three, kin of your kin . . . who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

The secret of Hollyleaf’s, Jayfeather’s, and Lionblaze’s true identities has been revealed, but one shocking question remains unanswered. Now, in the harshest days of leaf-bare, Clanmate turns upon [...]

The 39 Clues: Book 9

Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Product Description
This title is from “The New York Times” bestselling series. On the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill uncovered shocking information about their past – from what happened the night their parents died to the shattering discovery about their family branch. But the biggest secret of [...]

Warriors: Ravenpaw’s Path #2: A Clan in Need

Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Ravenpaw and Barley have been driven away from their farm by a group of vicious cats. Now the two loners must turn to ThunderClan—led by Ravenpaw’s friend Firestar—for shelter. Firestar takes them in and promises to help them take back their home as soon as possible, but ThunderClan is in great [...]

Dark Magick (Sweep, No. 4)

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Evil forces are after Morgan, forces connected with a dark wave of magick. And she knows something is wrong with the way Cal is acting, although she can’t put her finger on it. Cal is definitely hiding something, but is he out to hurt her, as Hunter says?

Need

Rating: (143 reviews)
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Product Description

Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that [...]

The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power (Secret Circle (Harper Teen))

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description
Caught in the struggle between good and evil . . .
Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it’s more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders of the Secret Grcle, she must ultimately [...]

Awakening (Sweep, No. 5)

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca—its thorn and its rose.

Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House, No. 38)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
In Monday with a Mad Genius, travel with Jack and Annie to Italy in the Renaissance, a time when every new morning brought with it the promise of artistic and scientific wonder. There, they meet none other than Leonardo da Vinci! Now [...]

Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-28

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
“I WISH WE COULD GO THERE!”
When they are in the tree house, Jack and Annie only have to say those simple words and the tree house starts to spin, faster and faster. . . . And then, poof!—the kids find themselves flying [...]

Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 9: Halt’s Peril

Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Philomel