In 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sutton becomes involved in a series of mysterious events that lead her to an underground world peopled by Fairy Folk—whose customs are even older than the Druids’ and include human sacrifice.

    It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise and alarm, Lucy saw a girl wearing a long dress, a pinafore...and a sly triumphant look on her face. Also, the attic had disappeared and another room had taken its place - a room that belonged to the past. The girl in the mirror was Alice, and she had lived a hundred years ago. Lucy found she could visit her any time she looked into the mirror. At first, it was fun to enter the past and see how Alice had lived. But, gradually, the chill of terror took over. Alice's friendliness turned into a sinister desire for power and control over Lucy. And Lucy found it harder and harder to resist being trapped in the past with Alice forever!

    Sunshine is about a young woman with terminal cancer and was based upon a true story, taken from the young woman's tape-recorded diary.

    Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar bear cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

    A DEFIANCE THAT SAW NO SLACKING UNTIL CANDLES COULD SHINE IN DANISH WINDOWS AGAIN

    She certainly doesn't want to be called a nut. But what's going on? Every time she tries to do something interesting, like sign up for tennis class or take over her brother's paper route, it turns out to be for boys only. So she has to speak up. And that, in this first-ever feminist novel for young readers, turns out to mean trouble.

    As the two become closer, leading to shared confidences and feelings, Harriet also attempts to discover the meaning and history behind an inscription she discovers on a memorial slab near the caves. But when the story of Ambrose Briddle, who died "After Candlemas" in 1890, seems to be replaying itself with Birney, Harriet knows she must act...

    unwillingly accepts a summer babysitting job on Nantucket Island and finds it far more pleasurable than she expected, even though she must cope with her employer's mental problems and a ghostly visitor.

    Her elder sister Ruth, caught up in a world of parties, fashions and boyfriends, ignores her. And her brother Simon, to whom she is devoted, goes to London to study music. Listless and unhappy, Anna takes no pleasure in her family's new home, or in her surroundings. The Wyndcliffe, "a brooding ancient face of sheer stone, dour and grey," matches her mood. Then she encounters John Hollis, a young sympathetic poet. But he died in 1823......"

    A brother and sister in Paris and their cousin in Vermont discover magic pictures that bring them together on an island full of adventures.

    Includes "The Fox & the Grapes," "The Hare & the Tortoise," others. 10" x 13". All ages

    

    When an elementary class sets out on a quest to save the world form disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.The second edition is online for free at my web sitehttp://www.seltzerbooks.com/lizardill...It's a great improvement and will probably never appear in print

    Unattractive and lonely, Ellie is amazed and delighted when the unusual new girl at school singles her out as a friend and suggests that they combine the psychic powers they both seem to have.

    By the end of summer, the narrator writes, "two of us were going to suffer like we never had before."

    One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would—she shoots.Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear. In remorse, she tends to the wounded stranger, and what follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a love story that weaves universal and timeless themes.The mother who died before Mary Dove could know her was African-American. And so completely has Mary Dove's father sheltered her that she cannot begin to comprehend what society would so cruelly teach her. Archetypal in their blamelessness and in how deeply they must suffer for their love, Mary Dove and her cowboy, "Red" Christopher Columbus Jones, are so thoroughly West Texan that they prove Rushing's mastery of character and place."Get away," she said"Now I ain't gonna hurt you," he said, "and I don't want to know nothing about you that you don't want to tell." He came a step closer."Stop right now," she said, "or I'll shoot.""You wouldn't," he said.He was so nearly right. She believed what he said—or nearly. But she had been afraid so long. And wasn't it a law of God to do what your father said? She trembled, looking into his smiling blue eyes. It would have been easier if he had been preparing to pounce, like the panther, or striking, like the snake. The rifle barrel dropped, a little. "I knew you wouldn't," he said, taking another step towards her."I have to," she said, and with a terrible struggle to hold the gun steady, she fired.

    Young adult tale of a boy on Dartmoor and his pony Tuppence.

    But Tini, his friend from England, has a theory about ancient treasure: mystery, excitement & danger follow.

    A teenage girl describes her experiences during a summer in London when she and her brother are given free rein while their parents are busy with their own affairs.

    It's a Mad Lib and Sooper Dooper Mad Libs? is all that and more. From "Weather Report" to "Items From A Gossip Column", Sooper Dooper Mad Libs? is chock-full of different stories and scenes. Just read the simple directions and play Mad Libs? with friends or by yourself. It's the world's greatest word game-complete with a sturdy chip-board for portable fun.

    Text and illustrations introduce the various sounds and noises heard in the home, at the zoo, in a department store, on a city street, and many other places.