Theme: Love

Small Acts Of Amazing Courage

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

It is 1918, six months after the end of World War I, and Rosalind awaits the return of her father from the war. While it is common practice for British children in India to be packed off to boarding school at the age of 6, Rosalind is unusual because she lives and is schooled in [...]

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Kat, Incorrigible

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiancÉ, the sinister Sir Neville, showing a dangerous interest in Kat’s magical potential; her other sister, Angeline, wreaking romantic havoc with her [...]

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The Romeo and Juliet Code

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

Phoebe Stone, author of the sleeper hit DEEP DOWN POPULAR, is back with a middle-grade code-breaking mystery full of romance and excitement. Think CHASING VERMEER meets THE SECRET GARDEN! Felicity’s glamorous parents have a secret. When they leave her with distant relatives in Maine, Felicity hopes they won’t leave her long. Her new Uncle Gideon [...]

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Warped

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

Tessa doesn’t believe in magic. Or Fate. But there’s something weird about the dusty unicorn tapestry she discovers in a box of old books. She finds the creature woven within it compelling and frightening. After the tapestry comes into her possession, Tessa experiences dreams of the past and scenes from a brutal hunt that she [...]

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Bloodline Rising

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

A story of loyalties tested, secrets exposed, and one boy’s search for identity amid the tangled political intrigue and deception of the Dark Ages. A young thief known as “the Ghost” roams seventh-century Constantinople, tangling in political feuds and petty theft, using his eerie gifts of persuasion and stealth. With his father away at war [...]

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Ship of the Dead

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

In order to save his one true love and prevent the destruction of the earth, Dane the Defiant must defeat an old–and undead–enemy.

Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Scandinavia » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Ask Amy Green: Summer Secrets

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Amy is trapped in family vacation hell- until she and Clover, her teenage aunt, get a chance to interview a hot U.S. movie star with a secret. Could this summer be any worse? Thirteen-year-old Amy’s dreamy boyfriend, Seth, is off to Rome, while she gets to spend two weeks on a tiny Irish island with [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Ireland, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: » Leave a comment

The Returning

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

An engrossing epic tale with a cast of characters that will hijack your heart. Cam Attling, having lost an arm, is the only one from his town of Kayforl to return after twelve years of war. All his fellow soldiers were slain, and suspicion surrounds him. When his betrothal to Graceful Fenister is called off [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Fantasy, Oceania, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Visconti House

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Two lonely grade-eight kids in rural Australia develop a friendship as they work together to unlock a mystery. Laura feels like an outcast because of her family’s artist lifestyle, her curly hair and bushy eyebrows, and the decaying mansion she calls home. Leon, newer to the area, is ostracized for living with his grandmother, the [...]

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The Piper’s Son

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family’s hard-won healing on the other side of trauma. Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca – but five years have passed, and now it’s Thomas [...]

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