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James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.

A garden statue of Belladonna, brought to life by a flash of lightning, gathers a stone army from gardens and churches as twelve-year old Poppy and her friend Emma watch, fascinated and terrified.

When she wins a scholarship to a famous ballet school, Lottie, an orphan reared by the costume mistress for a London ballet company, is torn between her lifelong dream and her love for a puppy.

Although Kyla has recovered some of her memories, she is not sure how they all fit together, whether she was really a terrorist, or why she is able to remember anything at all from before she was "slated"--but she is determined to find the answers.

Although fifteen-year-old Jane has always loved vampire lore, she is surprised to awaken in her coffin with fangs, and she goes to her parents and younger brother for help in figuring out why undead factions are vying for her eternal allegiance.

When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress, Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Mary is certain Anne will one day become Queen. Then she discovers that she is a pawn in a carefully orchestrated plot devised by her father, the Duke of Norfolk, and Mary dare not disobey him. When she becomes betrothed to Harry Fitzroy, the Duke of Richmond and son to King Henry VIII, Mary finally finds the love and approval she's been seeking but just when she thinks she is finally free of her father, the tides turn. Now Mary must learn to play her part well in a dangerous chess game that could change her life - and the course of history.

As maid to the Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, and daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, the future seems bright for Elizabeth Stafford. But when her father gives her hand to Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, the spirited young woman must sacrifice all for duty. For years, Elizabeth and Bess Holland, Norfolk's mistress, compete for his affections. But they are mere spectators to an obsession neither can rival: Norfolk's quest to weave the Howard name into the royal bloodline. The women's loyalties are tested as his schemes unfold--among them the litigious marriage of his niece, Anne Boleyn, to King Henry the VIII. But in an age of ruthless beheadings, both women discover there are other things to fight besides each other.

After seeing her parents murdered, sixteen-year-old Helen Cartwright learns she is one of three remaining angelic descendents charged with protecting the world, but nothing can save her from being torn between new friend and fellow Keeper Griffin and childhood friend Raum, who has joined forces with her parents' killers.

Startling, unusual, and irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

The portrait of a perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. He begins to question whether his long-time service to Lord Darlington was truly given to what he thought was "a great gentleman".