Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. But Kait's not a witch: she's psychic. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can study with other psychic teens and have a fresh start.As Kaitlyn learns to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, she starts to discover the intensity of her power - and the joy of having true friends. But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. Rob is a healer - kind and gentle, he's surrounded by good energy, while Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious - a telepath concealing his true nature. Together, Rob and Gabriel's opposing forces start to threaten the group's stability, and when an experiment traps the five teens in a psychic link - a link that threatens their sanity and their lives - Kaitlyn must decide who to trust and who to love...

    not that anyone would..."At seventeen, Rose is convinced no one will ever love her, living as she does in the shadow of her beautiful older sister Diana. If Diana is the swan, Rose is the ugly duckling. But for both girls this is going to be an extraordinary summer. It is 1943 and the war has left its mark even in the sleepy seaside town where the girls have been sent out of harm's way. For the first time in their lives they are free of adult restriction... For both girls it is a summer of self-discovery, but especially for Rose who unearths a love story set in another war, a story that becomes more real when she falls in love herself...

    is Vada's best friend. They live near enough to each other to bike ride over and play, or even just hang out. The two are always together, sharing their afternoons, their adventures in the lake, and all of their secrets. Then something terrible happens to Thomas J. and Vada has to learn to fill her days without her best friend around.

    Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big house’s past inhabitants are being replayed there.

    Shapiro. Anne of Green Gables is off to college! Young adults will enjoy this delightful collection, which features the novel Anne of the Islands and two short story collections, Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Black-and-white illustrations.

    No one thinks the foal will live or that it's worth trying to save. No one but Ashleigh.Can one girl's love alone work miracles?Read Thoroughbred and experience the love and friendship between a determined girl and a very special filly.

    But the girls are also involved in their own personal war at home. Gordy Smith, the worst bully in sixth grade, teases and torments them, and Margaret is scared to death of him. But when Gordy and his pals Toad and Doug grow bolder than ever, Margaret and Elizabeth come up with a daring plan to get even. That's when the girls discover a shocking secret about Gordy that turns their lives upside-down and draws them into a startling confrontation with family, friends...and their own strongly held ideas.

    Darby first met him when his car plowed into hers at a busy intersection. She's been running into him --literally--ever since. It doesn't matter that Bruce is a hunk and that most of the girls at school have crushes on him. To Darby he's nothing but a clumsy, conceited jerk.Than David Matthews, a guy Darby likes even less, starts asking her out. In desperation, Darby asks Bruce to pretend he's her boyfriend. It's supposed to be a temporary arrangement to get David to lose interest in her. Darby doesn't count on falling for Bruce in the process! She's already convinced David that she and Bruce are in love. Now can she convince Bruce?

    His father leaves to search for work, and Danny and his mother do what they can to survive. With his mother pregnant and unable to help, Danny is forced to beg for food. Through it all, they retain their good humor and family pride, and in the end help arrives in a most unexpected guise. “Rich, rewarding historical fiction.”--Kirkus Reviews

    A 19-year-old infantryman in Vietnam faces the boredom, fear, and danger of the war and performs a courageous act.Michael Jennings doesn't really know what he wants to do with his life...but he's completely sure he doesn't want to be in Vietnam.

    Nita doesn't have a highly significant scar on her forehead, nor does she live with abusive adoptive parents. She's a perfectly ordinary girl living with her perfectly amiable family (well, her younger sister, Dairine, is impossible, but that's the way younger sisters are) on Long Island, where she goes to public school and has problems with the class bully.Then one day she runs across one of those little books that help young people decide on a career: So You Want To Be a Doctor; So You Want To Be a Plumber; So You Want To Be a Wizard...Nita can't resist. She takes it home; she studies it; she recites the Wizard's Oath she finds inside--and she finds herself launched on a whole series of dangerously magical adventures. They take her to the depths of the ocean, to the moon and beyond, and to other dimensions entirely. She meets and befriends (and sometimes does battle with) wizards of all sorts and species. And every so often she, Kit and Dairine save the universe.

    When this happened, she entered the mind and soul of Prince Rudolph, the fourteen-year-old heir apparent of Thulgaria, a small European country. Prince Rudolph had spells too, when he entered Connie's mind and life. Everything was just fine, and their "trick" was their special secret -- until Rudolph was kidnapped while Connie was inside his mind . . .From the Paperback edition.

    But when she is caught Kit is sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the humane society. Kit knows how it feels to be stuck in a cage like those animals and soon she begins to learn that the key to her own cage is right in front of her."Readers will relate to [Kit's] anguish and her spirit and courage." —Booklist

    L'Engle comes across as a woman with an abiding commitment to her family as well as a lifelong lust for learning and the more spiritual aspects of existence. There are a couple of awkward phrasings and a few places where unexplained questions persist. Some of the book's success is due to the author's direct contact with her subject; Gonzales has obviously interviewed her extensively. The bibliography is modest enough to entice rather than threaten reluctant younger readers and yet comprehensive enough to suggest to more scholarly readers that Gonzales has done her homework. While she is admiring and discreet, she has not sheltered or distorted the facts; even L'Engle's irritability in the morning hours comes through. The one shortfall of the book is the poor quality of some of the black-and-white photographs. Still, their informality and their unique, if somewhat second-rate photographic technique, give a sense of history to one of the great women in children's literature. --Ruth K. MacDonald, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN

    Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But there is something odd about this magician. He isn't like the other hucksters and swindlers that Kim is used to. When he catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for.Until he suggests she become his apprentice. Kim wonders how tough it could be faking a bit of hocus pocus.But Mairelon isn't an act. His magic is real.

    Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle.

    Contains movie tie-in editions of the four Vampire Diaries titles: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury and Dark Reunion.

    Her stories are many-dimensioned, the cream of speculative fiction. Here are children who 'believe' - but what they believe and how they can realize their beliefs is only half the story.

    

    That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.

    Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue. As the years go by, her new people become her family . . . but she never stops wondering about her mother. Will they ever meet again?"A first-person narrative based on the true story of a young woman held by Indians from 1755-1763, related with all the impact of a hard-hitting documentary . . .Wonderful reading." (School Library Journal)"I Am Regina is an enthralling and profoundly stirring story, historical fiction for young people at its very finest." (Elizabeth George Speare, Newbery Award-winning author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond)

    After her father leaves the family, Addie must cope with her increasingly hostile, distant mother, perfect older sister, and sensitive younger twin sisters.

    Punished for fleeing her duties as a member of Strandia's privileged class, Sand is rescued by her dolphin friend M'ridan and learns of a disaster threatening her homeland.

    Her parents repeatedly warn her against the Anabaptist heresy, and the young man she loves favors the state church over the Anabaptists. But Regina wonders why so many good people are risking their lives for the Anabaptist beliefs. Have they really found a quality of life worth dying for?

    The moment the seal of an ancient tomb in Wales is accidentally broken, the Changes begin, and a brave few must struggle to put an end to the wellspring of chaos.

    Eleven-year-old Kathy, spending the summer with her aunt in her old family mansion, is visited by the ghost of a beautiful woman who died in the nineteenth century.

    A phone call brings Renee Greenberg back to a chapter of her life that had brought pain and fear, but ended in love and laughter.

    People will think I'm a geek or a goody-goody, they complain. Author Jack R. Christianson challenges that notion. In What's So Bad about Being Good? he shows convincingly how doing your best to be good puts you in touch with spiritual powers that will improve your everyday life. Drawing on his experiences as a college football player, a teacher, and a dad, he demonstrates that the only way to be really happy is to be true to yourself. This motivational book is a must-have for any family with teenagers!

    This compelling new page-turner by the highly-praised author of A Time of Darkness tells the story of two teenagers who experiment with thought transference and find themselves caught up in a terrifying time-traveling game where past and future come together.

    The important, secret things . . . The story of you, all buried, let the music caress it out into the open."When Allegra was a little girl, she thought she would pick up her violin and it would sing for her—that the music was hidden inside her instrument. Now that Allegra is twelve, she believes the music is in her fingers, and the summer after seventh grade she has to teach them well. She's the youngest contestant in the Ernest Bloch Young Musicians' Competition. She knows she will learn the notes to the concerto, but what she doesn't realize is she'll also learn—how to close the gap between herself and Mozart to find the real music inside her heart.The Mozart Season includes an interview with author Virginia Euwer Wolff.

    Lutes invites 15 year old Caro back to the dark side of the planet Clytie to work with the endangered Dermocarepae delphi, or carpies, (giant turtle-like creatures), Caro is torn. Although she has a special bond with the carpies, and is thrilled with the thought of working with them and Dr. Lutes, she is very afraid of returning to the home of the fierce Lumini lupus, who attacked and scarred her so terribly on her last adventure into the End region. But how can Caro admit she is so afraid? Soon, she finds herself with friends Sherri and Hal, and brother Ricky, driving with Uncle Lee deeper and deeper into the dark where the End Base is located.But it seems that the Central Scientific Community has more sinister plans for the gentle giants of Clytie's oceans than anyone thought. Caro, Sherri, Hal, and Ricky enter Clytie's underground tunnels and caves to rescue the carpies, but find much more than they could have imagined. Who is this mysterious furred man living underground, surrounded by lumies? Will Caro be able to face her fears and triumph over her terror of the dark?Book Two of The Orbits of Clytie Series. Young Adult Science Fiction Fantasy, Ages 12 and up.

    Is the Death Flower, which feeds on human blood and misery, the only way to control people's inhumanity?Will Medoc, a fur trader, continue to travel from planet to planet destroying entire species?Can Stephen return from the future with a video-tape of post-holocaust London and so prevent the onslaught of World War III?Danger, romance and tragedy - and a disturbing hint of menace - make this an utterly compelling collection of science fiction stories.

    

    Full-color photographs. Line drawings.

    Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white ducks he calls snowbirds. So Allan is grateful when Tony and Pete let him hang out with them. Until the day they start throwing rocks at the birds, and daring Allan to hit one. "What are you, afraid?" they tease. "Maybe we just won't call you anymore. You're scared to do anything." Allan wants to belong, but will he have to attack the birds to prove himself? And is it worth it?

    

    When Grandpa dies Myl and her brother Brevan are made geth, throwaways who become slaves to the townsfolk, until Myl discovers that she can fly.

    

    Baldwin, and a runaway rabbit find themselves trapped in their school during a terrible ice storm, a situation that turns potentially tragic when Mr. Baldwin suffers a heart attack.

    The series is graded in four stages: Stage 1 - 500 word vocabulary, Stage 2 - 750, Stage 3 - 1300 and Stage 4 - 1800. Each book includes an introduction to the author and story, a glossary of new words and exercise material (comprehension and discussion questions).

    "Tunis proves he is one of the best sports writers of the present day."--New York Times Book Review

    Get a glimpse into this magical, microscopic universe with these hands-on science experiments. Microscope basics cover microtomes, wet mounts, and smear and squash slides. Then take a close-up look at dozens of things--from animals to the icky slime on your teeth in the morning. Wondrous photographs and drawings, and intriguing science fair suggestions, encourage children to embark on their own microscopic explorations. 80 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

    

    Examines the action in the Pacific theater of World War II, focusing on the confrontation between the United States and Japan.

    While working with a classmate on a genealogy assignment, a fourteen-year-old Australian teenager discovers that her grandmother is hiding a dark family secret.

    A moving first novel about a girl's adjustment to an unsettling situation.

    The camp isn't big enough for both of them!

    In search of answers, they start a secret book and compile a teen survey for the school paper--with surprising results.

    As RanVan, the powerful knight of the video arcade game Stormers, he maneuvers through endless tunnels, braving insect-like attackers at every turn. In this world, he can save the Princess from the Dark Lord and justice will prevail -- if he plays well and masters the rules.The rules aren't as clear when he's plain, motherless Rhan Van, living with his grandmother in a shabby Vancouver apartment. One night a sleek silver car pulls up and ejects a real-life damsel in distress: Thalie Meng. He's never met anyone like her. She's beautiful, brash, smart, and mysterious. Like the noble knight in his favorite video game, Rhan takes it upon himself to pursue the Dark Lord in Thalie's life with a single-minded resolve. In the process he confronts the darkness in his own past.

    

    Biographies of 51 notable women of the Palmetto State who have made significant contributions in all areas of South Carolina history.