juvenile fiction

Harvey and his brother are on their way home after playing in the slushy streets of early spring when they discover that their father has died of a heart attack.

Quentin, a rabbit who lives in a walled compound run by a militaristic government, must join forces with Harry, a fox, to stop the sinister disappearances of outspoken and rebellious rabbit citizens.

Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.

After his mother is severely injured in an accident and his father kicks him out of the house, thirteen-year-old Travis attempts to survive on his own until he meets a guitar maker and some musicians who take him in and help him regain his confidence so that he can try to patch his family back together.

Unwilling to let the Germans occupy his islands unopposed, young Nick takes to the skies in a restored WWI fighter plane. Determined to learn to fly, he is soon photographing German patrol boats by day and flying by night.

Skye Hamilton, Charlie Deery, and Allie A. Abbott are enrolled in the exclusive Alpha Academy, where the best dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors face eliminations until there is only one left standing.

Middle school student Maya, having moved with her family from Idaho to Oregon and anxious over making new friends, meets a fairy who introduces her to children in the apartment building next door who practice magic, and, as she has delightful experiences with her new friends, Maya struggles with keeping everything a secret from her family.

A manga adaptation of "The Clique," in which the arrival of Claire Lyons, a new girl at Octavia Country Day, a private school in Westchester County, New York, upsets the order in the Clique, the social group that rules the school under the direction of Massie Block.

Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.

Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.