Newton Starkers has a problem: Lightning is attracted to him.For over two hundred years, nearly every member of the Starker family has died after being hit by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker is the last of his line, except for his great-grandmother, Enid, a woman as friendly as a pickled wolverine. He's determined to survive. Newton enrols in the Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival where students must navigate the outdoors, the very place Newton's mother...

"That's the city of Megiddo. Armageddon will begin on the plains below.""Maybe it just did," Cheevers said.A novel that captures the harrowing and sometimes heartbreaking life of a soldier during World War One. Fueled by anger at the death of his brother, sixteen year old Edward enlists and abandons his father and their farm in Canada for England. After proving that he can tame any wild horse, he's sent to Palestine to battle the Turks. A trooper's horse is the key to life a...

*Winner of the $15,000 Governor General’s Award*Winner of the Mr. Christie's Award*An American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults*Nominated for an Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America)*Over 60,000 copies soldFor fans of Stephen King and Ray Bradbury...Imagine a depression-era town where it hasn’t rained for years. A pale rainmaker with other-worldly eyes brings rain to the countryside and mesmerizes the townspeople, but the childr...

It all begins with a scream…Isabelle and Beatrice live a glamorous lifestyle in 1920s Hollywood. As orphaned twins, they’re the wards of Mr. Cecil, a mysterious and influential movie director who tightly controls every aspect of their lives. He turns beautiful Isabelle into a popular silent film star. With the advent of “talkies” he takes great pride in his latest effort: a horror flick that will showcase the actual sound of Isabelle’s already famous scream.

Terror stalks the halls of St. Wolcott School . . .When Daphne’s sixth-grade teacher, Miss Vindez, plummets from the belfry of St. Wolcott School, Daphne and her friends Nick and Peach are plunged into a mystery that includes a long-ago fire that left behind twelve dead schoolchildren, tiny ghosts with nowhere to go, and an ancient evil just dying to break through into modern-day Moose Jaw.Miss Vindez survives her fall, but things just aren’t the s...

A thrilling YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Arthur Slade!Carmen is a student at Red Assassin School. She's an expert at bladed weapons and poisons; and she's desperate to finish at the top of the class, ahead of her twin brother. The students have been trained to hunt using giant black swans, but Carmen has discovered a dragon. All she has to do is get on his back.One problem: he's killed everyone who gets near him.Then the Emperor declar...

Prince Conn will never be king. And that's just fine with him.Conn is ninth in line for the pirate throne and is quite happy to sail the skies in his airship with his crew of cheery misfits, plundering as they go. But one by one his siblings are being murdered, in tragic fires, violent cannon attacks or mysterious poisonings. Soon all fingers are pointing toward Conn as the mastermind. To prove his innocence, Conn must make his way to Skull Island, navigating his a...

He's the greatest spy of the Victorian era, but he's met his match...Almost since birth, Modo has been rigorously schooled as a secret agent. His master, a British Lord, took advantage of Modo's unique shape-shifting talents, training him to morph from his unsightly, hunchbacked-self into anyone he liked.When Modo is teamed up with the beautiful Octavia, his reasons for wanting to shape-shift become, well, more complicated. He never wants her to see his tru...

The thrilling sequel to award-winning author Arthur Slade's fantasy adventure!Carmen has defeated her twin brother, Corwin, thanks to the pact she made with Brax the dragon. Now it's time for her to fulfill her end of the bargain.Brax takes Carmen to Drachia, the land of beasts, where Carmen soon learns that Brax had been banished from his father's kingdom for accidentally killing his sister, Brenna.But soon after their arrival in the dragon capital...

Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle while he's busy working on yet another time-travel experiment.In the cluttered lab, Michael's uncle barely notices him. And he keeps muttering things like “quantum multiverse transporter," so Michael has to entertain himself. Which is how Michael accidentally ends up in an alternate universe. Everything looks remarkably similar to his own world but with a few key differences, like l...

He's the greatest spy of the Victorian era, but he's facing his greatest challenge...Get the complete collection of the bestselling Mission Clockwork series. It's a steampunk-powered, action-packed adventure featuring brilliant heroes and bloody brilliant villains.Almost since birth, Modo has been rigorously schooled as a secret agent. His master, a British Lord, took advantage of Modo's unique shape-shifting talents, training him to morph from his unsightly...

Can two modern-day kids solve the mystery of the ghost that haunts the old hotel--or will they be trapped in the past forever?Walter Biggar Bronson (a.k.a. Wart) and his friend Cindy meet a ghost one night after school. The small, mournful boy leads them across the Broadway Bridge to the gracious Bessborough Hotel. After a strange incident in the elevator, they find themselves still in the hotel–but back in 1936.Some spooky things are going on. The...