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". . . tells the origin story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. For anyone . . ."--Provided by publisher.

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's 'No Quests' rule is about to be broken. Again.

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

"Cruz Coronado sets sail for the shores of Iceland and Norway aboard the Explorer Academy ship to continue his studies at sea. But, things take a turn while exploring the icy north, when he embarks on a dangerous mission to uncover the first piece of an important puzzle his mother left behind"--Provided by publisher.

While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.

In Emma and Izzy's world, all children process magic, but only the wealthy are allowed to wield it. Twelve-year-old Emma attends Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic, the best kindling school in New York City, but everything changes when her father dies. Now penniless, Emma must work as a servant for Miss Posterity to pay off her debts. After she befriends another servant girl, Izzy, they realize they both have something in common: they don't want to lose their magic. Izzy promises to teach Emma how to survive as a servant, and Emma agrees to teach Izzy all she knows about magic. Together, they embark on an adventure to bring lasting change to their world.

". . . observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate . . ."--Provided by publisher.

After ten-year-old Sophia meets her unicorn, Rainbow, at Lakeside Unicorn Academy, they are away on their first amazing adventure, they must discover who is tampering with the lake that gives unicorns their magic.

When magical Sparkle Lake mysteriously begins to freeze over, Scarlett and Blaze, fearing separation, resolve to find out who is responsible before Unicorn Academy is forced to shut down.

Layla must overcome her cautious nature and take her unicorn Dancer on a dangerous ride to find a cure for the trees dying around Sparkle Lake.