Material appropriate for intermediate age groups
Eleven-year-old Zac follows his grandmother into the magical world of dreams called Nocturne, where Dream Pirates led by Shadow are spreading dark magic that creates nightmares, and it is up to Zac and new friends to foil the evil plan.
The Game of Triumphs lies in ruins, but Cat and her friends must enter the Arcanum once again to oust the Master of Misrule, a corrupt leader who threatens to unleash the power of the game into London and the world at large.
When Lady Gretchen is abducted by the werelion Prince Lucas, Drew and his friends embark on a perilous chase to stop the prince from fleeing with her, but as they encounter terrifying new werelords, Drew must summon all his courage and strength to defeat the creatures.
In 1539, Kitty Tylney and her best friend Cat Howard–the audacious, self-proclaimed “Queen of Misrule”–both servants to the Duchess of Norfolk, move to the court of King Henry VIII, who fancies Cat, and when Cat becomes queen, Kitty must learn to navigate the complexities and dangers of the royal court.
Adam Adlar, along with his old friend Zed, must fight the evil organization Geneflow to save the world from destruction once and for all.
Bullied and despised for being human-sized, a young giant demonstrates his bravery and cleverness in a series of adventures.
Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past? Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl – she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her job, she goes to live with the Plushes – a slightly Bohemian family who run a Confidential Inquiry Agency. Verity helps them solve cases and slowly becomes one of the family. But patches of the truth about her past begin to surface, along with the special talent that Professor Plush is helping her explore. Who were her real parents? Is she the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter? Who is sending poison pen letters about Verity to the Plushes? Who doesn’t want them to learn the truth about Verity Sparks?
When Flaxfield the great wizard dies, his apprentice Sam is left without a master. Sam has great power–but he doesn’t know it yet. All he knows is that he needs a new master if he wants to finish his education in magic. With his dragon Starback at his side, Sam sets out alone on his quest. But there are those who want Sam’s power for themselves, dangerous forces who are waiting for his first mistake so they can attack. When Sam is tricked into making a mortal error, only Starback can save him, thanks to a bond between them that is deeper than either of them know. With a strong sense of adventure and a lyrical writing style, Toby Forward has created a page-turning, accessible fantasy with the literary quality of a classic.
Clover Twig has been warned about The Perilous Path, but when her baby brother goes missing she and her friend Wilf must travel that tricky trail to rescue him from the clutches of Mesmeranza, the evil sister of Clover’s employer, Mrs. Eckles.
In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Hylas, a lowly twelve-year-old goatherd, thief, and outsider, journeys from the Greek mountains to Crete and Egypt, making allies with animals, battling tyranny, and withstanding the elemental powers of the gods of land and sea.