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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
During the [...]

The Bar Code Tattoo
by Suzanne Weyn
In the year 2025, the event that teenagers are eagerly awaiting for is their seventeenth birthday, but it’s not for the reasons you might think. Their seventeenth birthday marks the day that they can get their own bar code tattoo. The tattoo is the epitome of efficiency and convenience. Each [...]

Night World No.3
by L.J. Smith
This is the third set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three Night World stories that were originally published on their own separately. Included in this set [...]

Night World No.2
Dark Angel, The Chosen, and Soulmate
by L.J. Smith
This is the second set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three Night World stories that were originally published on their own [...]

Night World No.1
Secret Vampire, Daughters of Darkness, and Spellbinder
by L.J. Smith
This is the first set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three of the Night World novels that were originally published [...]

In the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In the Forests of the Night, Atwater-Rhodes’ first novel, which was written while she was only thirteen years old, is an engaging tale told from the heroine’s point of view in first-person. The book’s title is a line taken from a poem written by William Blake, entitled “The [...]

Breaking Dawn
4th book in the Twilight Saga
by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn is the much anticipated fourth and [in a sense] final installment in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. So many questions had arisen throughout the series, the most pressing of which revolving around the heroine’s love interest, whether or not she too would become a vampire, and [...]

The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
By Francesca Lia Block
As the title might suggest, Francesca Lia Block’s The Rose and the Beast takes some of the most popular of Grimm’s fairy tales and plops them down in modern-day Los Angeles. The tales are reworked to fit a modern day world, but the lessons, both [...]

Eclipse
3rd book in the Twilight Saga
by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse is the third installment to Meyer’s tale of a young girl, Isabella “Bella” Swan, who has come to live with her father in the small town of Forks, Washington. Also living in this town is a family of vampires abstaining from drinking human blood, and on [...]

Leonardo’s Shadow
by Christopher Grey
Leonardo’s Shadow is told from the point of view of Giacomo a servant of the great Leonardo da Vinci. To say that Giacomo came to be Leonardo’s servant under rather unique circumstances would be an understatement. The story opens up with how Giacomo came to be with Leonardo. Giacomo, a young boy [...]