Theme: Dark

Death Sentence: Escape from Furnace 3

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Alex’s second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins–a sinisterly dark nectar–Alex becomes what he most fears a superhuman minion of Furnace. [...]

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Darkness Slipped In

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Daisy isn’t afraid of Darkness when he quietly slips in through her bedroom window one evening. Together, Daisy and Darkness dance and play until bedtime. This enchanting story personifies Darkness as a friendly and welcome visitor.  The rhyming text will help allay a childhood fear of the dark.

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Wolf Brother

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Six thousand years ago, Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined. Torak and Wolf are joined by a cast of characters as they battle to save their world, in this first [...]

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

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The Tygrine Cat

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Alone and lost, a young cat called Mati is struggling to be accepted by a colony of street cats in the bustling marketplace at Cressida Lock. What Mati doesn’t know is that he is the last of a vital, age-old breed and that a mysterious feline assassin named Mithos is close on his trail. With [...]

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The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master’s decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.

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The Black Book of Secrets

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night. His name is Ludlow Fitch—and he is running from a most terrible past. What he is about to learn is that in this village is the life he has dreamed of—a safe place to live, and a job, as the assistant to a [...]

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The Mystery of the Martello Tower

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Hazel and Ned are home for summer vacation and looking forward to long, lazy days of sleeping late, shooting hoops, building stink bombs, and spending time with their art-dealer father. But when he disappears without saying good-bye, their summer plunges into chaos. The babysitter leaves town, their apartment is burgled, and two menacing thugs start [...]

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Black Juice

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A collection of short stories.  As part of a public execution, a young boy forlornly helps to sing his sister down. A servant learns about grace and loyalty from a mistress who would rather dance with Gypsies than sit on her throne.  A terrifying encounter with a demonic angel gives a young man the strength [...]

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Poison

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when her sister is snatched by the mean-spirited phaeries, she seeks out the Phaerie Lord to get her back. But finding him isn’t easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling. With [...]

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