spirits

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, fifteen-year-old Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

"Unable to use their Bankai special abilities, the Soul Reaper captains are at a severe disadvantage against the invading Quincy army. Urahara has a plan to turn the tide of battle, but will it be enough as the Quincies continue their onslaught?!"--Page 4 of cover.

First Nations teenager Jeremy Stone finds inner strength in a new friendship and an exploration of the intersection between the spirit world and the real world as he contends with bullying and racial harassment at his new school.

After her mother dies, Barrie Watson finds herself all but a prisoner on her aunt's South Carolina plantation, guarded by centuries-old ghosts. Barrie learns of the curse put on one of the four families of Watson Island, and the magical gifts given to the three others--but the three gifts have become compulsions. Then she and Eight Beaufort, her love interest, discover the secrets of the Watson heirs, putting their lives in danger.

Young Captain Ruaud de Lanvaux, a Guerriere orholy warrior in the kingdom of Francia, rescues an orphaned child not realizing she is the daughter of one of the mage's executed in the purge of the College of Thaumaturgy and that she is guarded by an aethyric spirit bent on revenge.

Rieuk Mordiern scrambles to reinstate Azilis, the guardian spirit who keeps balance between the living and dead, but Azilis has attached herself to Celestine and is guiding her on a path to avenge her magician father; and meanwhile, seven daemons prepare to leave their realm to destroy the mortal world.

Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.

Ever since Sara was a little kid she's been able to see ghosts. In fact, now that her dad has dragged her across the country to New Jersey, Sara's ability has become even more powerful as she discovers ghosts hanging around everywhere. And what's worse, one of them has even started to communicate with her - an old man who is asking for Sara's help.

October Schwartz investigates the hundred-year-old murder of her ghost friend Morna Macisaac, but before she can find out who did it, October's best living friend, Yumi, comes under harassment at school, which October decides needs to be addressed right away.