Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy was just released in the U.S.
Description: When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future. In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland's family's traveling circus troop, Maddigan's Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial task of obtaining a new solar converter, the only power source in Solis, because the old one is failing. Misfortune finds the Fantasia in their travels, and Garland's father dies in an attack by Road Rats. Then suddenly two mysterious boys, Timon and Eden, appear with their baby sister, claiming to be from the future -- a world in which the Fantasia has failed in its mission and the evil Nennog has taken power. The boys have come to help the Fantasia, but danger has followed them across time. Can the Fantasia protect Timon and Eden, and succeed in their quest to save their world?
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Just released (U.S.): The Hollow People (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus book 1)
The Hollow People (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus book 1) by Brian Keaney was just released in the U.S.
Description: On the sinister island where strict obedience to the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus holds sway, dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you. In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question. For fans of thoughtful science fiction and fantasy, The Hollow People opens a window on the unseen worlds that surround us.
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Description: On the sinister island where strict obedience to the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus holds sway, dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you. In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question. For fans of thoughtful science fiction and fantasy, The Hollow People opens a window on the unseen worlds that surround us.
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Just released (U.S.): The Heir of Mistmantle (The Mistmantle Chronicles book 3)
The Heir of Mistmantle (The Mistmantle Chronicles book 3) by M.I. Mcallister was just released in the U.S.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice book 4)
The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice book 4) by Joseph Delaney will be released on March 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: The witches are rising, and the three most powerful witch clans are rumored to be uniting in order to conjure up unimaginable evil—in the form of the Devil himself. Tom Ward and Mr. Gregory (aka the Spook) set off to Pendle to avert the unthinkable. But before they go, the Spook tells Tom to journey home to collect the trunks his mother left behind for him. What dark family secrets are contained in the trunks? Will they place Tom's family in even greater danger? Or will Mrs. Ward's secrets save the Spook, Tom...and the day?
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Description: The witches are rising, and the three most powerful witch clans are rumored to be uniting in order to conjure up unimaginable evil—in the form of the Devil himself. Tom Ward and Mr. Gregory (aka the Spook) set off to Pendle to avert the unthinkable. But before they go, the Spook tells Tom to journey home to collect the trunks his mother left behind for him. What dark family secrets are contained in the trunks? Will they place Tom's family in even greater danger? Or will Mrs. Ward's secrets save the Spook, Tom...and the day?
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Warriors: Warrior's Refuge (Warriors Manga book 2)
Warriors: Warrior's Refuge (Warriors Manga book 2) by Erin Hunter will be released on December 26, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: In Warrior's Refuge, Graystripe and Millie's journey to find ThunderClan has only just begun when the pair is faced with a series of insurmountable-seeming obstacles. Getting out of Twolegplace isn't easy, and Millie's unfamiliarity with life in the wild makes it hard for Graystripe to keep them moving. But just when a temporary refuge is in sight, conflict with a tribe of barn cats threatens to beak the travelers apart for good!
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Description: In Warrior's Refuge, Graystripe and Millie's journey to find ThunderClan has only just begun when the pair is faced with a series of insurmountable-seeming obstacles. Getting out of Twolegplace isn't easy, and Millie's unfamiliarity with life in the wild makes it hard for Graystripe to keep them moving. But just when a temporary refuge is in sight, conflict with a tribe of barn cats threatens to beak the travelers apart for good!
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): Worldweavers: Spellspam (Worldweavers book 2)
Worldweavers: Spellspam (Worldweavers book 2) by Alma Alexander will be released on March 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: What happens when ordinary email spam blends with harmful magic? Spellspam. At first, it seemed like little more than a few harmless practical jokes, but now, for the students at the Wandless Academy, the spellspams are getting worse. Thea thought she was the only one who could reach through the computer using magic, but someone else is out there, someone bent on more than just stirring up trouble—with a dark agenda from a whole new world.
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Description: What happens when ordinary email spam blends with harmful magic? Spellspam. At first, it seemed like little more than a few harmless practical jokes, but now, for the students at the Wandless Academy, the spellspams are getting worse. Thea thought she was the only one who could reach through the computer using magic, but someone else is out there, someone bent on more than just stirring up trouble—with a dark agenda from a whole new world.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Sorcerer King (The Faerie Path book 3)
The Sorcerer King (The Faerie Path book 3) by Frewin Jones will be released on February 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: A sweepingly romantic tale of magic, peril, adventure, and true love. In the third book of The Faerie Path, readers return to Tania's magical world. Tania and Edric travel back to Faerie to discover their land has been invaded by the Sorcerer King and only they can save it.
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Description: A sweepingly romantic tale of magic, peril, adventure, and true love. In the third book of The Faerie Path, readers return to Tania's magical world. Tania and Edric travel back to Faerie to discover their land has been invaded by the Sorcerer King and only they can save it.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Tide Knot
The Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore will be released on February 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: Sequel to Ingo. As Sapphire and Conor explore further into the kingdom of the Mer, they learn of a threat growing deep beneath the surface of the sea, where the wisest of the Mer, Saldowr, guards the Tide Knot. Ingo is restless, and soon both Sapphire and Conor will have to answer the call of the Deep.
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Description: Sequel to Ingo. As Sapphire and Conor explore further into the kingdom of the Mer, they learn of a threat growing deep beneath the surface of the sea, where the wisest of the Mer, Saldowr, guards the Tide Knot. Ingo is restless, and soon both Sapphire and Conor will have to answer the call of the Deep.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): Sword Quest
Sword Quest by Nancy Yi Fan will be released on February 8, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: Sequel to Swordbird. When archaeopteryxes begin to dominate birdworld, the Great Spirit causes a magical sword to be forged. The bird who wields it can use it for good or for evil. Will it be Wind-Voice, the unlikely archae-dove, or the archaeopteryx Maldeor, who has turned to evil? As the two rivals race to find the Great Spirit's sword, the future of birdworld and Wind-Voice's destiny as Swordbird rests in the balance.
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Description: Sequel to Swordbird. When archaeopteryxes begin to dominate birdworld, the Great Spirit causes a magical sword to be forged. The bird who wields it can use it for good or for evil. Will it be Wind-Voice, the unlikely archae-dove, or the archaeopteryx Maldeor, who has turned to evil? As the two rivals race to find the Great Spirit's sword, the future of birdworld and Wind-Voice's destiny as Swordbird rests in the balance.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Just released (U.S.): Dragonhaven
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley was just released in the U.S.
Description: Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. Environmentalists and friends say there are no records of them eating humans and they are a unique example of specialist evolution and must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon—a dragon dying next to the human she killed. Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill—even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake is struck by something more urgent—he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. What he decides to do will determine not only their futures, but the future of Smokehill itself.
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Description: Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. Environmentalists and friends say there are no records of them eating humans and they are a unique example of specialist evolution and must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon—a dragon dying next to the human she killed. Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill—even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake is struck by something more urgent—he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. What he decides to do will determine not only their futures, but the future of Smokehill itself.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Dusssie
Dusssie by Nancy Springer will be released on October 2, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic—until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon—right out of Greek mythology—and she was named after her mother's younger sister, Medusa. Her mother had hoped that Dusie's being half-mortal would protect her from inheriting the family curse. Still reeling from this revelation, Dusie tries to keep her snakes under wraps. But after a boy she likes in school almost exposes her, she discovers another family secret—just one look from Dusie's snakes has the power to send someone right into his own personal Stone Age. Talk about "if looks could kill"! Dusie better figure out how to control her snakes and her rage, and find a way to get her life back—before anything else disastrous happens.
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Description: Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic—until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon—right out of Greek mythology—and she was named after her mother's younger sister, Medusa. Her mother had hoped that Dusie's being half-mortal would protect her from inheriting the family curse. Still reeling from this revelation, Dusie tries to keep her snakes under wraps. But after a boy she likes in school almost exposes her, she discovers another family secret—just one look from Dusie's snakes has the power to send someone right into his own personal Stone Age. Talk about "if looks could kill"! Dusie better figure out how to control her snakes and her rage, and find a way to get her life back—before anything else disastrous happens.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): Ratha's Courage (The Named book 5)
Ratha's Courage (The Named book 5) by Clare Bell will be released on October 18, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Ratha and her clan, the Named, are sentient prehistoric big cats. In Ratha's Courage, the first book about the Named since 1994 Ratha extends the use of the Red Tongue—fire—to a hunter tribe. One of the hunters ignites a blaze that sets off a devastating conflict between the two clans. Now Ratha must find the courage within herself to set it right.
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Description: Ratha and her clan, the Named, are sentient prehistoric big cats. In Ratha's Courage, the first book about the Named since 1994 Ratha extends the use of the Red Tongue—fire—to a hunter tribe. One of the hunters ignites a blaze that sets off a devastating conflict between the two clans. Now Ratha must find the courage within herself to set it right.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Just released (U.S.): The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep
The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler was just released in the U.S.
Description: Twelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park, New Jersey. He works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Sleep, The Seems is a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running—and more importantly, sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But The Plan, and The Seems for that matter, would be nothing without the people in it, and that's where Becker Drane comes in. When a Glitch is reported in the Department of Sleep, Becker is dispatched to Fix it, but he's not so sure this is a routine mission. Could the Bed Bugs, who are behind our Worst Nightmares, be responsible for the problems? Or maybe it's The Tide, an underground organization bent on destroying The Seems? No matter what, Becker's in for quite an adventure, and it'll take all his training, a l ittle luck, and the coolest Tools known in (or out of) the Seems to Fix the problem.
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Description: Twelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park, New Jersey. He works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Sleep, The Seems is a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running—and more importantly, sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But The Plan, and The Seems for that matter, would be nothing without the people in it, and that's where Becker Drane comes in. When a Glitch is reported in the Department of Sleep, Becker is dispatched to Fix it, but he's not so sure this is a routine mission. Could the Bed Bugs, who are behind our Worst Nightmares, be responsible for the problems? Or maybe it's The Tide, an underground organization bent on destroying The Seems? No matter what, Becker's in for quite an adventure, and it'll take all his training, a l ittle luck, and the coolest Tools known in (or out of) the Seems to Fix the problem.
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Just released (U.S.): The Nixie's Song (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
The Nixie's Song (The Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Black was just released in the U.S.
Description: The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem - the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety - and it's up to Nick; his stepsister, Laurie; and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of Florida goes up in smoke.
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Description: The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem - the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety - and it's up to Nick; his stepsister, Laurie; and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of Florida goes up in smoke.
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Just released (U.S.): Book of a Thousand Days
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale was just released in the U.S.
Description: When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment. As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows. With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this forgotten but classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.
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Description: When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment. As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows. With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this forgotten but classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.
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Just released (U.S.): The Lighthouse War (The Lighthouse Trilogy book 2)
The Lighthouse War (The Lighthouse Trilogy book 2) by Adrian McKinty was just released in the U.S.
Description: Jamie O'Neill is back on earth, where no one but his best friend, Ramsay, knows he's the hero of a great war that saved an alien nation. Now he's back to being a kid with one arm, no girlfriend, and a band that plays bad songs about intergalactic romance. Then news breaks on the Internet: A space probe has picked up a coded message from far across the galaxy. NASA's best scientists can't figure out what it says. Only Jamie and Ramsay realize it's a message from Altair. They're needed again.
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Description: Jamie O'Neill is back on earth, where no one but his best friend, Ramsay, knows he's the hero of a great war that saved an alien nation. Now he's back to being a kid with one arm, no girlfriend, and a band that plays bad songs about intergalactic romance. Then news breaks on the Internet: A space probe has picked up a coded message from far across the galaxy. NASA's best scientists can't figure out what it says. Only Jamie and Ramsay realize it's a message from Altair. They're needed again.
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Moon Rock
The Moon Rock by Boriana Todorov will be released on September 28, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: When Elliot takes his grandfather's moon rock, he's not really stealing it, just borrowing it for further study. But the rock launches him into an adventure beyond his wildest imagination—in fact, it launches him clear to the moon! That night, Elliot awakes in Great Nidor, a city built in the deepest crater on the far side of the moon—a place where wickedness corrupts hearts and bodies, time can be twisted for good or evil, and wonder floats down every street. A civil war is raging between the Librarian and the Defiers. The Librarian rules over the Wings of the Past, Present, and Future. There's a problem, though: he's unable to open the Wing of the Future, where the most dangerous knowledge is stored, knowledge that will help him defeat the Defiers. Only Elliot can get the magical key that unlocks the Wing. But can he find it? And will the Wing of the Future help Elliot save his mother and his home from a terrible fire?
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Description: When Elliot takes his grandfather's moon rock, he's not really stealing it, just borrowing it for further study. But the rock launches him into an adventure beyond his wildest imagination—in fact, it launches him clear to the moon! That night, Elliot awakes in Great Nidor, a city built in the deepest crater on the far side of the moon—a place where wickedness corrupts hearts and bodies, time can be twisted for good or evil, and wonder floats down every street. A civil war is raging between the Librarian and the Defiers. The Librarian rules over the Wings of the Past, Present, and Future. There's a problem, though: he's unable to open the Wing of the Future, where the most dangerous knowledge is stored, knowledge that will help him defeat the Defiers. Only Elliot can get the magical key that unlocks the Wing. But can he find it? And will the Wing of the Future help Elliot save his mother and his home from a terrible fire?
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Just released (U.S.): Sensitive
Sensitive by Nina Wright was just released in the U.S.
Description: Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisiblity, she is a Sensitive—someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend's mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.
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Description: Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisiblity, she is a Sensitive—someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend's mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Maddigan's Fantasia
Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy will be released on October 9, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future. In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland's family's traveling circus troop, Maddigan's Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial task of obtaining a new solar converter, the only power source in Solis, because the old one is failing. Misfortune finds the Fantasia in their travels, and Garland's father dies in an attack by Road Rats. Then suddenly two mysterious boys, Timon and Eden, appear with their baby sister, claiming to be from the future -- a world in which the Fantasia has failed in its mission and the evil Nennog has taken power. The boys have come to help the Fantasia, but danger has followed them across time. Can the Fantasia protect Timon and Eden, and succeed in their quest to save their world?
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Description: When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future. In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland's family's traveling circus troop, Maddigan's Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial task of obtaining a new solar converter, the only power source in Solis, because the old one is failing. Misfortune finds the Fantasia in their travels, and Garland's father dies in an attack by Road Rats. Then suddenly two mysterious boys, Timon and Eden, appear with their baby sister, claiming to be from the future -- a world in which the Fantasia has failed in its mission and the evil Nennog has taken power. The boys have come to help the Fantasia, but danger has followed them across time. Can the Fantasia protect Timon and Eden, and succeed in their quest to save their world?
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Glass Word (The Dark Reflections Trilogy book 3)
The Glass Word (The Dark Reflections Trilogy book 3) by Kai Meyer will be released on January 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: Concludes the trilogy with the final battle to rule the world of Dark Reflections.
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Description: Concludes the trilogy with the final battle to rule the world of Dark Reflections.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Time Thief (formerly known as The Tar Man) (The Gideon Trilogy book 2)
The Time Thief (formerly known as The Tar Man) (The Gideon Trilogy book 2) by Linda Buckley-Archer will be released on December 26, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: The sequel to Gideon the Cutpurse, which has been renamed to The Time Travelers. It was published in the UK as The Tar Man.
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Description: The sequel to Gideon the Cutpurse, which has been renamed to The Time Travelers. It was published in the UK as The Tar Man.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Search for the Red Dragon (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica book 2)
The Search for the Red Dragon (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica book 2) by James A. Owen will be released on January 1, 2008 in the U.S.
Description: Sequel to Here,There Be Dragons.
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Description: Sequel to Here,There Be Dragons.
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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): Clash of the Sky Galleons (Edge Chronicles book 9)
Clash of the Sky Galleons (Edge Chronicles book 9) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell will be released on September 11, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: In the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles series, Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now eager to learn from his father what it really means to be a sky pirate. But, consumed by his desire to capture Smeal, Wind Jackal's judgment is flawed, and his actions endanger the lives of his crew — and his son. As they travel from the taverns and backstreets of Undertown and the wonders of the shipbuilders' yards, to the dark dangers of the Deepwoods, Quint and Maris become separated from the rest of the crew. Finally, at the mysterious, ghostly sky-wreck in Open Sky, they discover the truth about Smeal.
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Description: In the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles series, Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now eager to learn from his father what it really means to be a sky pirate. But, consumed by his desire to capture Smeal, Wind Jackal's judgment is flawed, and his actions endanger the lives of his crew — and his son. As they travel from the taverns and backstreets of Undertown and the wonders of the shipbuilders' yards, to the dark dangers of the Deepwoods, Quint and Maris become separated from the rest of the crew. Finally, at the mysterious, ghostly sky-wreck in Open Sky, they discover the truth about Smeal.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): The Hollow People (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus book 1)
The Hollow People (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus book 1) by Brian Keaney will be released on September 25, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: On the sinister island where strict obedience to the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus holds sway, dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you. In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question. For fans of thoughtful science fiction and fantasy, The Hollow People opens a window on the unseen worlds that surround us.
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Description: On the sinister island where strict obedience to the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus holds sway, dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you. In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question. For fans of thoughtful science fiction and fantasy, The Hollow People opens a window on the unseen worlds that surround us.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Grimpow: The Invisible Road
Grimpow: The Invisible Road by Rafael Abalos will be released on October 9, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Grimpow had no idea who the dead man was, but hidden in his leather bag was a treasure that would change his life forever. Ruby and emerald encrusted daggers, silver coins, jewels, and a letter with a golden seal depicting a snake swallowing its own tail. And clutched in the man's firm grip - a stone. A stone that will shape Grimpow's destiny. For when he holds it, strange things begin to happen. Visions of places he's never been fill his mind and he's able to read the strange language in the letter, a message meant for someone else entirely. So begins Grimpow's journey with the stone - a centuries-long journey that has driven sane men crazy, turned peaceful men violent, and made strong men powerless. No man has ever unlocked its secrets. But no boy has ever tried.
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Description: Grimpow had no idea who the dead man was, but hidden in his leather bag was a treasure that would change his life forever. Ruby and emerald encrusted daggers, silver coins, jewels, and a letter with a golden seal depicting a snake swallowing its own tail. And clutched in the man's firm grip - a stone. A stone that will shape Grimpow's destiny. For when he holds it, strange things begin to happen. Visions of places he's never been fill his mind and he's able to read the strange language in the letter, a message meant for someone else entirely. So begins Grimpow's journey with the stone - a centuries-long journey that has driven sane men crazy, turned peaceful men violent, and made strong men powerless. No man has ever unlocked its secrets. But no boy has ever tried.
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Sunday, September 2, 2007
Forthcoming book (U.S.): Sensitive
Sensitive by Nina Wright will be released on October 1, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisiblity, she is a Sensitive—someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend's mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.
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Description: Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisiblity, she is a Sensitive—someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend's mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Indigara
Indigara by Tanith Lee will be released on October 18, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken to their planet's film capital, Ollywood, and are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while girl and dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above . . .
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Description: Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken to their planet's film capital, Ollywood, and are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while girl and dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above . . .
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Forthcoming book (U.S.): Dragonhaven
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley will be released on September 20, 2007 in the U.S.
Description: Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. Environmentalists and friends say there are no records of them eating humans and they are a unique example of specialist evolution and must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon—a dragon dying next to the human she killed. Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill—even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake is struck by something more urgent—he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. What he decides to do will determine not only their futures, but the future of Smokehill itself.
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Description: Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. Environmentalists and friends say there are no records of them eating humans and they are a unique example of specialist evolution and must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon—a dragon dying next to the human she killed. Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill—even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake is struck by something more urgent—he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. What he decides to do will determine not only their futures, but the future of Smokehill itself.
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Newly released book (U.S.): The Tree Shepherd's Daughter (The Faire Folk Trilogy book 1)
The Tree Shepherd's Daughter (The Faire Folk Trilogy book 1) by Gillian Summers was just released in the U.S.
Description: When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and lord even after closing time! Play-acting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl's worst nightmare. Keelie has a plan to ditch this medieval geekland ASAP, but while she plots, strange things start happening—eerie, yet familiar. When Keelie starts seeing fairies and communicating with trees, she uncovers a secret that links her to a community of elves. As Keelie tries to come to grips with her elfin roots, disaster strikes, and Keelie's identity isn't the only thing that's threatened.
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Description: When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and lord even after closing time! Play-acting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl's worst nightmare. Keelie has a plan to ditch this medieval geekland ASAP, but while she plots, strange things start happening—eerie, yet familiar. When Keelie starts seeing fairies and communicating with trees, she uncovers a secret that links her to a community of elves. As Keelie tries to come to grips with her elfin roots, disaster strikes, and Keelie's identity isn't the only thing that's threatened.
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