fantasy fiction

Lily is chronically ill, but while her parents are welcoming a new baby she sneaks home from her grandmother's house and, aided by animal friends, combats the demons who have moved in.

With her family shattered after a manticore attack killed her baby brother and mother, Ester is left with her father, who has fallen painfully silent, and her need for vengeance against the monsters that did it. In the king's Royal Mews, the giant rocs of legend are trained to fly and hunt manticores with their handlers--Ester gets paired with a fledgling, Zahra, and starts to find her purpose while training for the empire's most dangerous manticore hunt in history.

Andrew and Eddie were best friends until Eddie left Andrew for a graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, Andrew prepares to join Eddie in Nashville until he receives shocking news: Eddie has committed suicide. Eddie leaves Andrew his inheritance, and Andrew steps into Eddie's old life in Nashville. He doesn't believe that Eddie would commit suicide and begins to investigate what really happened to his friend, but he soon finds himself becoming consumed by the same demons that took Eddie away.

Constance and Ivory Ivyweather are complete opposites, so they aren't happy to be sent away for the summer by their indifferent parents to the decaying town of Quixx that's covered by a mysterious fog that never seems to lift. The sisters soon meet Derrek, an astronomer who also happens to be a spider-like creature with a scientific mind and a tragic past, and they learn of the monsters who lurk in the shadows of the sleepy mountain town.

Phoebe Winchester is adjusting to her new life in Raven Creek, Washington, where she runs the bookstore and tea shop, the Earl's Study, out of the Victorian manor she inherited from her dearly departed Aunt Eudora. In addition, she's learning to master her recently discovered magical powers, but when she discovers a dead body at an estate sale, Phoebe doesn't know how much more she can handle. She enlists the help of an old friend and private investigator, Rich, to clear her name and solve the murder.

Desmond and best friend Andres attend the towns birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.

Convinced their principle is a witch, Andres and Desmond's next step is to find out if she is a good one or a bad one.

Henry's friends are excited to try out the diving boards at their new community pool, but Henry's fear of heights dampens his enthusiasm.

When Henry accidentally brings a frog home from Brewster Creek he plans to return it the next day, but things quickly turn chaotic when the frog escapes, and now Henry must try everything, even magic, to catch the energetic amphibian.

Second-grader Raven faces her fear of public speaking and makes a new friend when her wish backfires.