Nothing in Kerry’s life prepares her for her first summer job. Stationed as far north from Toronto as Florida is south, unqualified and inexperienced, she perceives hazards around every tree. What does she know about fieldwork? Or black bears? Or men? Absolutely nothing—all she’s done with her life so far is competitive dance. If her mother only knew what this job required!Kerry’s new partner, Yvette, is unlike anyone she’s ever met and something about her doesn’t add up. Her boss ...

A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating! Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknow...

"Fly with your own wings!" said the ad in Andrea's comic book. "Money-back guarantee!" Andrea knew it couldn't be true, but she sent in her money for the wings kit anyway. What happened next was wonderful beyond imagining--and then very, very frightening.

Twelve-year-old Ember's trailer home has been burned in a fire set most likely by her best friend, a boy whose father believes Ember's family are witches. Yes, Ember's mom reads Tarot cards as a business. Ember's friend set the fire to warn the family before his dad did something worse to them. The friend never intended to do so much damage.Now the family is homeless, and living in a campground. They have no money. Ember's beloved dog is missing. School is going to start, and Ember...

In the early morning's light after a ravaging storm, somewhere in the flooded jungles and washed out Tuvaluan roads lay the key to Beatrice's future and call to her family's past. What was the ghoulish glow in the bubbling seawater? Was it a famous pilot's treasure unearthed by a typhoon's floodwaters, or an heirloom left by a loved one to be found by Beatrice and her friends? After dinner, standing her front porch Beatrice lifts her glittering discovery into the moonlit sky. She wonders a...

Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens, long-listed for the 2009 CLA Book of the Year for Children AwardTwelve-year-old Lewis Castorman is a master locksmith: there is no lock on earth that he is unable to open. He is therefore flattered when world-renowned chemist Ernst K. Grumpel invites him to his office in New York City and offers him a lock-picking assignment. His confidence quickly turns to dismay, however, when he learns this job will take him to Yellow ...

An eerie tail of a ghost dog bully... Scout and his friends are back in their second adventure in "The Springer Spaniel Mysteries" series! In "A Ghostly Tail", Hamish is an Irish Wolfhound that returns to haunt Montagu Street and frame Scout for bad things he hasn't done. But Hamish is a sad ghost dog bully; he misses his family who moved away without him. Scout needs to find a way to return Hamish to his mumma's purse during a King Street shopping trek so that Harleston Village will be sa...

From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate.But Bernie's mother dies and Bernie more or less drops out of school, becoming an ordinary guy working away in a tire shop, while Winifred goes about as far from New Jersey as a girl...