Issue: June 2007

Thomas : Book Three Of The Deptford Histories

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Two country mice are tricked into boarding a ship and embark on an adventure during which they try to keep a fragment of a jade egg from falling into the hands of those who wish to use it to return the evil known as Gorscarrigern to the world.

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The Moneylender’s Daughter

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family’s fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father’s decree that she marry a wealthy, eldery Englishman.

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Frozen Billy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Left in the care of an n’er-do-well uncle, siblings Clarrie and Will devise an elaborate plan involving ventriloquist’s dolls, costumes, and forged boarding passes to reunite their separated family.

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The Death Collector

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

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The Moon Of Gomrath : A Tale Of Alderley

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

With the help of the wizard Cadellin, Colin and Susan struggle to contain the forces of evil unleashed by the inadvertent awakening of the band of ancient horsemen known as the Wild Hunt.

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Harriet Bean And The League Of Cheats

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.

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The Princetta

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Rebelling against the rigid constraints of her life as Princetta of Galnicia, fifteen-year-old Malva escapes with her maid Philomena and together they embark on a perilous and adventurous journey that will change the course of their lives forever.

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The Golden Compass

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

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Face Value

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Alternating passages relate the experiences of fifteen-year-old English model Lauren with those of her guardian Nessa and reveal what happened to Lauren’s beautiful–but doomed–teenaged mother.

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Scarlett

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

After being expelled from yet another school in London, twelve-year-old Scarlett is sent by her exasperated mother to live with her father, stepmother, and stepsister in Ireland, where with the help of a mysterious boy, she eventually overcomes her anger and resentment and feels part of a family again.

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