CHILDREN'S
Released: April 5, 2011
"Dark, disturbing fare, crafted by a master; readers of the trilogy's first will be supremely satisfied. (Crime fantasy. 14 & up)"
Deep philosophical questions about identity and responsibility hide in the heart of this second volume of magical conmen and gangsters.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2007
"The illustrations are beautiful, though—richly-detailed, cheeky and charming—and they help compensate for the missing magic in the text. (Fiction. 8-12)"
It's the winter holiday season and Sara, who longs for strings of twinkling lights and a glittery Christmas tree, is jealous of her Christian friends' traditions.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2010
"Fans, future bankers and future gametechs will be in heaven; those without interest will skim or give up by the halfway mark. (Science fiction. YA)"
In a future so close it will be easily mistaken for today, teens all over the world play massively multiplayer online role-playing games, but not all are in the game for fun.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2011
"Complex, rich and memorable. (Fantasy. 10-14)"
In this modern fairytale, an insouciant, "somewhat heartless" 12-year-old girl from Omaha visits Fairyland and accepts a quest to rescue its inhabitants from the rule-mad Marquess.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 1994
"Gaber's romantic, stylishly rendered art, escaping its borders to enliven clean white margins, is also sure to appeal. (Picture book. 5-10)"
The princess has been cursed by the Lord of Night: if she's not given whatever she wants, her parents will die and their kingdom ``fall into ruin.'' Bull's tale is built on the princess's unusual response to this prescription for indulgence: she does her best not to want anything.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
"Though it doesn't stand well alone, this has the same witty adolescent verve and vulnerability—plus a message concerning peace among those who are really different. (Fiction. 14+)"
Fast-paced, occasionally confusing, but never dull: a sequel to the punk fantasy Elsewhere (1991) recounting the further adventures of teenager Ron and his friends—other human runaways, elves, and those of mixed blood.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 5, 2011
"Graphic descriptions of murdered children push the story older than the reading level of its prose, but that just leaves it as an entertaining if quick adventure for those impatiently awaiting the next, heftier entry by Cassandra Clare or Julie Kagawa. (Fantasy. 12-16)"
In the post-apocalyptic world left after the war between the human realm and Faerie, it's been winter for very long time.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2002
"Not for the faint-hearted—who are mostly adults anyway—but for stouthearted kids who love a brush with the sinister: Coraline is spot on. (Fiction. 9-12)"
A magnificently creepy fantasy pits a bright, bored little girl against a soul-eating horror that inhabits the reality right next door.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 2003
"But as a conscious "prequel" to the pair's earlier (and out-of-print) Seven Wild Sisters, the story has an unfinished and ultimately unsatisfying quality. (Fiction. 8-10)"
