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It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? Cover Price $8.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00  Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original. Cover Price $8.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 TOP TEN REASONS Samantha Madison IS IN DEEP TROUBLE 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portraits in school 6. And now she's being forced to take art classes 5. She's just saved the president of the United States from an assassination attempt 4. So the whole world thinks she is a hero 3. Even though Sam knows she is far, far from being a hero 2. And now she's been appointed teen ambassador to the UN. AND THE NUMBER-ONE REASON Sam's LIFE IS OVER? 1.The president's son just might be in love with her. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 With a unique diary page design, the "California Diaries" series is an intimate look at preteen life in the '90s. Amalia Vargas is the new girl in school, and she's fitting right in. With a new group of friends, living by a new set of rules, Amalia's life is spinning in a whole new direction--especially when her boyfriend won't let her break up with him. Ages 11-13. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel living in two distinct worlds--one of memories and traditions and one of today. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting. Cover Price $2.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises... including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she's ready for love... Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Unpredictable Anne marries her true love, Gilbert, and continues with her adventures. Cover Price $2.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 All baby-sitters must die.... Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 After a narrow escape from the nasty O. O. Mary's clutches, Annyrose ventures forth to find her long-lost brother Lank in gold-digging territory. But the journey is rough, bandits and fiends waiting for the traveler at every bend. Soon Annyrose runs into Joaquin Marieta, legendary bandit of the Gold Rush. This complete disaster, however, soon appears to be no less than a blessing for both! They can help each other out: Annyrose can teach Joaquin how to read so he will know where danger lies, and in turn he can make sure she's safe and fed. But in a time when corruption and greed are running wild, will their friendship be more than fool's gold? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The one great certainty in her life was that she would never, ever forgive Zeke Dexter for killing her mother. That was given. As sure as the sun rose and the earth spun, she would not, should now, could not forgive him for what he did. And wherever he was right now-lying on his bunk in his cell, sitting in the prison dining room-she hoped he could feel the hate she was beaming his way. The terrible, awful thought that kept coming to her unbidden was that the haunting would go on until Zeke Dexter, too, was dead. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of all who knew him: a grizzled old miner, a big-game hunter, even President Teddy Roosevelt. Named Brighty by the prospector who befriended him, he remained a free spirit at heart. But when a ruthless claim-jumper murdered the prospector, loyal Brighty risked everything to bring the killer to justice. Brighty's adventures have delighted generations of readers, and he has become the symbol of a joyous way of life. Some people say that you can even see his spirit roving the canyon on moonlit nights-forever wild, forever free. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 It all begins when Comet walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island. He visits a garden, a bookstore, a boat, and a party, and at each place he gets into trouble and loses one of his lives. Comet starts to worry. He longs for a home, a place where he'll be safe. Will he find one before he uses up all nine lives? Condition Good Your Price $1.00 As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The seedy carnival looks like just the thing to give Buffy and her best buds, Xander and Willow, a break from staking bloodsuckers. Some greasy food, a few cheap thrills -- what more could a Slayer ask for? But then Buffy senses something evil behind this carnival. Xander and Willow aren't so sure. They don't buy Buffy's notion that the carneys are somehow connected to the corpes turning up around Sunnydale. It doesn't help that her two best friends are each interested in someone at the carnival. Which puts the burden of proof on Buffy. Can she find out what's going on in time to save her friends? Or has the Slayer become the prey? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Athena becomes entangled in an Internet "flame war," and enlists her friend Jason to help stop the escalating problems that result. Recommend Age Range: 9 to 12 Cover Price: $3.95 Condition: Good Your Price: $1.00 She had seen Scarborough House only in her dreams. Now Megan was here, visiting the grandmother she'd never met, and her newfound cousin Matt, too handsome by far, who wanted her to disappear. Grandmother was so cold, so distant. Why did she finally reach out to Megan after all these years? And why was Matt so determined to call her his "almost" cousin? For all her prophetic dreams, nothing could have prepared Megan for Matt's astonishment when he first saw her... or the reaction of perfect strangers who looked at her with fascination -- and fear... Megan thought she knew who she was. Until she came to Grandmother's house. Until she met Matt, who angered and attracted her as no boy had ever done before. Then she began having dreams again, of a life she never lived, a love she never knew... a secret that threatened to drive her to the grave. Cover Price $4.99 Condition New Your Price $2.00 When best friends Kelly and Lauren sneak off for a ski trip in the mountains, their biggest fear is facing their parents when they return. But from the minute they pick up a gorgeous hitchhiker, the girls are in for the most horrifying trip of their lives. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Julie can't wait to meet her long-lost twin, Joanna. But Joanna wants to be more than just a sister. She wants Julie all to herself. She wants to share everything Julie has: her clothes, her friends -- her life! Then Julie's friends start dying. Is Joanna finally getting her way? Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving to explore an underwater habitat that's just been altered by a seismic event. What they find, though, is much more than fish - it's sunken treasure. Can they salvage it without anyone else getting to it first? Will the prospect of wealth set them against one another? And what about those sharks... Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 How can April give up her name, her friends, her boyfriend Steve, and everything she's ever known? April Corrigan feels like her life is over when she learns that her father has been working undercover for the FBI and the family must relocate under the Federal Witness Security Program. No one can reach them now... or can they? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Why does the exclusive boarding school Blackwood have only four students? Kit walks the dark halls and feels a penetrating chill. What terror waits around the next corner? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders. Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Dread Locks is the first entry in the Dark Fusion series from master storyteller Neal Shusterman. He cleverly weaves together familiar parts of fairy tales and Greek mythology to tell the story of fourteen-year-old Parker Bear, rich and utterly bored with life—until a new girl arrives in town. Tara’s eyes are always hidden behind designer sunglasses, and her hair, blond with glimmering spirals, seems almost alive. Parker watches, fascinated, as one by one Tara chooses high school students to befriend; he even helps her by making the necessary introductions. Over time, her "friends" develop strange quirks, such as drinking gallons of milk, eating dirt, and becoming lethargic. By the time Parker realizes what Tara is doing, he is too embroiled to stop her. In fact, she has endowed him with certain cravings of his own... To say more would spoil the spooky fun of this wild thriller—let the twist speak for itself and leave you still as a statue. Format - Advance Reader's Copy Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In the 1840's, eight-year-old heiress Elsie Dinsmore has only her Christian faith and the hope of love from the father she has never met to sustain her while living on a southern plantation with relatives who care little for her and disapprove of her strong religious principles. Format - Hardcover Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Happiness seems illusive when nine-year-old Elsie Dinsmore faces danger at the hands of a jealous family member--and worse, the loss of her father's affection. Will she have the courage to choose between her beloved Papa and a life that promises only loneliness and grief? Format - Hardcover Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 I am powerful. I am graceful. I am angry. I am pure. I am raw. I am alone. I am Gaia. I am just like you. But I'm not -- I'm Fearless Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Devastated by her father's absence, Gaia is offered a home by the mother of Mary Moss, who suggests to Gaia that she live in Mary's old room. Gaia accepts, and suddenly finds herself in a family desperate to fill a void. Meanwhile, Tom is on assignment in Germany, and learns of a terrorist plot to kidnap Gaia and use her DNA for some hidden purpose. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 There's somebody who wants me dead. And he's probably going to succeed. Very soon. There is something I have to do before I go. And there's only one person I want to do it with. Sam. NO RULES. NO LIMITS. NO FEAR. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sam is gone. No. Not just gone. Someone's taken him. Kidnapped him to get to me. And I only have three hours to find him... Or Sam is going to die. All because of me. NO RULES. NO LIMITS. NO FEAR. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Prey on the old and you're a coward. Prey on the young and you're pathetic. Prey on the weak and you're even weaker. Prey on my friends... and you're history. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Everyone longs for something. And everyone gives in to temptation sometimes. Mary. Heather. Sam. Now it's my turn. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cedar River High has just taken on a new practice teacher who's envied and talked about by the entire school. Mr. Cartwright, a weightlifter and football player in college, is everybody's idol perfect muscles, handsome, and he knows it. But all those good looks don't make up for the damage he does around the school. Lexi Leighton watches as two of her friends make Mr. Cartwright their hero, then are manipulated into bad decisions. Lexi knew there was trouble brewing, but she never thought it would get this serious. How many kids will get hurt before he's stopped? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her “missing pieces” while exploring the complicated issues of the war between the impoverished independence men and the decadent British Tories. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Now that she has joined the world's number one modeling agency, will Kerri Gold have to choose between her career in New York and her friends in Miami? Cover Price $3.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Josie Goodwin is distraught when she hears that her father is to remarry less than a year after her mother's tragic death. Iris Collier is Samuel's lucky bride and it's clear from the start that Josie and her stepmother aren't going to get on. Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain of events that mirror the centuries-old Salem witch trials in more ways than one. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept some of the truths her father had always kept from her. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00  With a year at Hogwarts School under his belt, Harry expects the new term to go smoothly, but a wizard's share of surprises and adventures await the likable lad and his friends. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 In this third installment in the seven-volume series, Sirius Black, imprisoned for killing 13 people with one curse, escapes from Azkaban. As he heads for Hogwarts, the chilling Dementors who trail him quickly descend upon the school. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins to discover some clues about his illustrious birthright. From the surprising way he is greeted by a lovable giant, to the unique curriculum and colorful faculty at his unusual school, Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sara Howell is smart, savvy, beautiful...and deaf. For Sara and all of Radley, things get frightening when the Shadow point Bridge collapses. 5 people die then one more: Sara's father, in a hit and run accident. Now someone is following Sara taking pictures. Her older brother, Steve, a rookie police detective, is receiving threatening messages. Sara Howell must find some answers or she could be the next victim. Cover Price $1.99 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 "Jakkim and his dragonHeart's Blood, now full grown, are drawn into political conflicts on their planet, Austar. The thrill of the birth of Heart's Blood's first hatchlings is dimmed when word is received that Akki, the girl who helped raise Heart's Blood, is missing. Jakkim becomes part of a rebel group to locate her, and all three of them must flee for their lives after the rebels blow up a dragon fighting pit." Cover Price $6.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the psychologists, the social workers, the therapists -- at least most of the time. Sometimes there is nothing left but to run away, to run for freedom. And that is what Erin and two friends do, run away one night downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine, maybe, and you might not think it's true. But Erin will tell you it is all true. And the proof is a girl named Heaven Eyes, who sees through all the darkness in the world to the joy that lies beneath. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 "IT'S STILL TRUE." That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla's house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family. But when they get to Bridgeport, they learn that Great-aunt Cilla has died, and the home they find with her daughter, Eunice, isn't the permanent haven they've been searching for. So their journey continues to its unexpected conclusion -- and some surprising discoveries about their history, and their future. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 WILL THE HOUSE OF DANGER BE YOUR BIGGEST CASE EVER? OR WILL IT BE YOUR LAST? You are an accomplished young detective with several tough cases under your belt. Then comes a case that is as difficult as it is frightening. An anonymous caller begs for help. But before you can find out more, the line goes dead... Cover Price $1.99 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 The unlikely friendship of high school junior Wally Witherspoon and teenage actress Sabra St. Amour. Wally laments that his whole life seems already set: he'll eventually take over his father's funeral parlor business and marry his girlfriend, Harriet Hren. But a chance meeting with teen superstar Sabra (who, despite being rich and famous, is also unhappy with her life) changes the predictable course of Wally's life. Two teenagers resist pressure to lead lives their parents have fashioned for them. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago. The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue to call myself Risika, even though I was transformed into what I am against my will. By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But now someone is following Risika. Someone has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika had a family -- a brother and a sister who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Fourteen-year-old Cristyn is unhappy about spending the summer in Wales, where her father will be researching his book. From the moment they arrive, though, things prove to be anything but dull. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Lexi Leighton and her friends all are excited about the beginning of a new school year—all but Jennifer, that is. Jennifer is so uptight that she seems like she's about to snap. Lexi decides to investigate. She discovers that Jennifer totally hates school—and always has. But why? Lexi gets nowhere when she encourages Jennifer to confide in her, although she knows that Jennifer is covering something up. If Lexi can't get through to Jennifer, will she self-destruct? Deep within was a secret that held the key to her present—and future. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop. And if you stumbled into that strange shop, you, too, might be asked to make a choice. What would you buy? The Chinese rings? The Skull of Truth? Or the dragon's egg? And if you did buy the dragon's egg, what would you do when you found out you were supposed to hatch it? Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 Anticipating a boring summer at her grandmother's house, Angela complains about the area's lack of video stores, malls, and other twelve-year-old kids but is soon captivated by the story of her great-grandmother's life. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Matt is Cedar River High's rebel wild, scary and mean. He's known around school for his fighting, and his messed-up home life seems to reinforce his actions. Matt is dangerous to himself, some feel he's dangerous to others, and his name has become synonymous with trouble. Minda Hannaford also spells trouble and it's no surprise she thinks Matt is great. When she starts running around with him, disaster is sure to follow. Matt won't last long if he continues down this road. How can Lexi and Todd help? Change must come for Matt, but will Minda stand in the way? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A group of students kidnap their teacher to "teach him a lesson," but their plans go awry when he dies, leaving them in a morass of lies and guilt. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat. Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain. When she's diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears she'll spend the rest of her life trapped in a fat suit. Who will stand by her? Her image-conscious family? Her shallow friends? Her handsome boyfriend? Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 It doesn't occur to Nore to take the dream-warning seriously. Her new stepmother and stepbrother seem nice. But why does Nore feel so uneasy around them? Maybe she should have listened . . . Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Violence, heartache, and three devastating hurricanes ravaged Madelaine LeBlanc's life in late summer 1860. In the luxurious Creole world of French food, meadow picnics, and silk-gown veranda parties, her father plots her marriage to a rich heir, and with the infamous Nightriders he secretly terrorizes the poor Cajuns in the swamps. Madelaine, searching desperately for a life of meaning and freedom, finds it at last in storm-wrecked fields, where Françoise Jarousseau helps her father rebuild their livelihood. But her family would never accept her love of a poor Cajun laborer. Can she really abandon her whole world for him? When Françoise's work is done, Madelaine despairs of ever seeing him again -- until a second hurricane threatens her father's crops, and he returns to the plantation. She can't resist their secret meetings, despite the risk of discovery. Her father's vengeance and the final hurricane break over them in one terrifying night. Will their love survive? Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it -- two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has a kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In this latest installment in the intense, intimate series from the bestselling author of The Baby-Sitters Club, Maggie has always had the perfect house, the perfect grades, the perfect looks. But now all that is changing. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 For Mandie the excitement of going home for the Christmas holiday was almost too good to be true. To be with her family, to see her friends, the wrapping of presents, the Christmas tree and all the delicious smells--time couldn't go fast enough. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Heaved off her ship in a pirate raid, Mousemaid Mariel is washed up on the shores of Mossflower. With no idea where she is, or indeed who she is, the young warrior mouse embarks on an unforeseen adventure that will take her to the very heart of Redwall and into the arms of the people who live there. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Bedrang the Stoat has his evil eyes set on ruling over his own empire, and will do anything to make sure that his ultimate fantasy is fulfilled. But little does he realize that the quiet, nameless mouse he is holding captive will one day turn out to be the heroic and fearless Martin the Warrior. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 In the summer of the Golden Plain, the cunning fox, Slagar the cruel, and his evil henchmen sneak into Redwall Abbey to kidnap the woodland children -- including Mattimeo, son of the great warrior mouse Matthias. Now Matthias and a handful of brave followers must abandon their home to the mercy of General Ironbeak's invading ravens in order to rescue their stolen little ones. But on the road to a dread kingdom and certain slavery, an unexpected hero will be born -- and the captive mouse-child Mattimeo will prove himself worthy at last to wield the sword of his illustrious father. Cover Price $6.99 Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel are kids who are pretty normal-except that they're 98% human, 2% bird. They grew up in cages, living like rats, and now they're free-but being chased by the wicked, wolf-like Erasers, who've kidnapped Angel. Led by Max, the "Flock" embarks on a quest to find Angel, infiltrate a secret facility to track down their parents, get revenge on an evil traitor, and try to save the world-if there's time. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Ever since he was little, Max Carmody has been trying to make people laugh. So when he sees a poster announcing a contest to find "The Funniest Kid in America," he knows that he has finally found his destiny. Dubbing himself "Maxx Comedy," he sets out to create the video that will gain him entry into the contest and national fame?but it isn’t quite as easy as he thought it would be. In what soon becomes a comedy of errors, Max first has to help a cow named Madonna give birth, keep a wildcat from attacking his classmates, save his best friend from getting beaten up by a jealous boyfriend, and make it all the way to Chicago with a truckload of cherries. Will Max leave them rolling in the aisles? Or will he discover, as an old actor once said, "Dying is easy; comedy is hard." Format - Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Joined together hand in hand our circle gathers round, to work our magic, weave the web, and dance on sacred ground. By the goddess we are called, witch to witch and friend to friend, to merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again. A book of spells brought Kate, Cooper, and Annie together. The three are coompelled to learn more, and the door is opened with the stirring ritual of the Vernal Equinox. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 She said she killed them because they were monsters. Mary Blanc walked into the party with a loaded shotgun. In the blink of an eye she blew two people away. She wanted to kill more, but was stopped by her best friend, Angela Warner, and the police. The next day, when Angela visits Mary at the jail, she asks why she did it. Mary responds, "Because they were no longer human." Angela thinks she's crazy. At first. Until she probes deeper into Mary's claims and discovers a horror so unimaginable that she thinks she is going crazy. She even gets to the point where she wonders if she should have let Mary keep on killing. While there was still time to stop the thing from spreading. The very old thing. The hungry thing. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the most successful -- and elusive -- burglar in Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using London's new sewer system to escape. He adopts a dual existence to fit his new lifestyle, taking on the roles of a respectable, wealthy gentleman named Montmorency and his corrupt servant, Scarper. Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Mossflower tells the story of Martin the Warrior, who finds himself trespassing on the land of Verdagua, King of a Thousand Eyes, as he lies sick and near dying. With his last strength, Verdagua is struggling to make a decision on who should replace him as ruler of Mossflower Country. As Martin and his newfound friend and fellow prisoner Gonff become embroiled in the battle against Verdagua's ruthless daughter, Tsarmina, a bloody fight between good and evil ensues. Cover Price $6.50 Having found out that he was adopted, Andy searches for his biological father on the Internet and then must deal with the consequences of his discoveries. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The Little Angel of Independence helps a girl named Elena develop independence and self-reliance when she loses her beloved toy giraffe during a visit to the park. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Tony Hawk is a skateboarding sensation. At the 1999 ESPN X Games, he astonished viewers by performing a 900, a trick thought impossible to do. But astonishing people was nothing new for Hawk. Since taking up skateboarding at age nine, he's almost single-handedly revolutionize the sport. Whether dominating vert competitions, inventing new tricks, or providing a positive role model for young skaters, Hawk's sheer athleticism and dedication have helped change the way skateboarding is viewed by the general public. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum. When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her. Can Annie save the boy she loves, or will her choice keep her a trespasser out of time? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 In the latest Redwall saga, six beautiful pearls are hidden in Redwall Abbey. A marauding mob of corsairs seeking the jewels kidnaps the Abbot as a bargaining chip, thereby setting the plot off in two distinct directions. In one, the denizens of the Abbey, led by the young hedgehog Tansy, must solve a series of riddles to find the pearls; theirs is a fun- and food-laden search that harks back to a similar hunt in the series opener, Redwall. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Grace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears. And suddenly the premonitions that have been the bane of her existence become the only way to solve the mystery of where the friend has gone -- and how she can be saved in time. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch. But the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve have returned to their own world and a dark presence now rules this once harmonious land... Wicked King Miraz has imposed a pernicious new order of persecution and imprisonment, but the King's nephew and rightful heir, young Prince Caspian, realizing the evil of his uncle's regime, vows to revive Narnia's glorious past. Fearing for his life, he is forced to flee and calls on the four children, the magic of the mighty lion Aslan, and an army of fauns, dwarfs and woodland spirits to help him in his seemingly impossible task. Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom. Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A loner whose uncle doesn’t even know he’s missing. An Army brat whose family will never be able to raise enough money. And a cheerleader who can’t count on her stepdad, but knows her father will come through. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Holy teen supersleuth! The famous Nancy Drew makes a cameo appearance in this new River Heights series set in Nancy's hometown, but the focus is on high-school society and young love. Nikki Masters is entering junior year with a stiff upper lip--that summer she had been accused of murder until Nancy cleared her name ( Nancy Drew Files #39 ), and she knows the gossip at River Heights High will be bad. Nikki is soon able to put that trouble behind her, however, when she meets handsome newcomer Tim Cooper. But Brittany Tate, River Heights's "vixen," has a chip on her shoulder about Nikki and a passel of schemes to make Tim her own. Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Is Nikki's new car making Tim cool off? Cover Price $2.99 Brittany is in a class all by herself - dating a college man! Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Double love means double trouble.... Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Playacting can be dangerous - on stage and in love... Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom of a talented young man with a violent temper. Yet as they talk, a darker story unfolds around them. A story of life and death, of redemption and damnation. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life. Maybe the last night of her life. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 English teacher Marilou McCormick has moved to tiny Julian, California, to put a recent tragedy behind her. But it's hard to start life afresh when you're assigned to Room 13 at Drew Bailey Memorial High School. There's something decidedly creepy about the former domain of eccentric Scott "Scurvy" Lurvey, who took his life in the room eight years before. Like posters of authors that refuse to be torn down, students who seem possessed by fictional characters, and a heater with a mind of its own. Marilou's only ally, Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski -- ex-minor-league baseball player, sometime writer, and occasional school bus driver -- suspects a supernatural force behind the sinister goings-on. And Moondog ought to know -- after all, he happens to be a werewolf. But can Moondog prevail over a malevolent spirit that will stop at nothing to get its way? Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The inhabitants of Redwall relax in the haze of summer-but as they do, the neighboring stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the evil weasel army of Ferhago the Assassin. Worse still, Mara, beloved daughter of Urthstripe, Badger Lord of the Fire Mountain, is in terrible danger. Then a lightning bolt uncovers the sword of Martin the Warrior, and young Samkin embarks on an adventure that leads him to Mara. Can the good creatures triumph over the villainous Assassin? Cover Price $5.50 It is the glittering center of the new West, brash young San Francisco, dominated by the luxurious Palace Hotel, where tycoons mingle with famous artists, politicians, and the young American aristocracy. Where 18-year-old housekeeper Sierra O'Nielle, still smarting from a flirtatious gentleman's snub, realizes it is time to face reality and remember her place -- until she sees Joseph Harlan, the handsome son of a wealthy cattle rancher. The sizzling electricity that flows between them is impossible to ignore.... Joseph has come to find a suitable bride. His father will do anything to keep him from a maid. Until the fateful April night Sierra is thrown into Joseph's arms as the earthquake of the century devastates the city. Suddenly they are bound together, racing through the cobbled streets seeking shelter from raining bricks, panicked crowds, and the wall of flame that threatens to devour all that is left.... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 With school nearly over, a scavenger hunt planned for the senior class is transformed into a nightmare for Carl Timmons, a troubled young man, when he is lured away from his friends by his love for a mysterious girl, a journey that leads to a confrontation with a haunted past. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 "Before Jenny Logan even entered the forbidding castle-a replica of the Worthington's ancestral home in England-a terrified stranger warned her away. Was the warning real-or just another example of the family's macabre sense of humor? Jenny couldn't be sure. She only knew her summer vacation with her father suddenly became a nightmare when predatory Sir John Worthington invited them to stay-and his grandsons, the gorgeous Malcolm, his twin Derrick, and their mischievous cousin Wit spun a web of intrigue, romance, and deceit around her. She's forced to play by their rules now, and battle the castle's ancient curse, which decrees that she will go mad, or die...or simply disappear...." Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Lexi Leighton's friend Binky is interested in a guy at school but feels out of it. Her clothes, her hair everything seems out of style. The perfect solution seems to be a babysitting job that will allow her to get a new wardrobe. Everything begins to fall into place at just the right time! There's just one hitch: something is radically wrong with the rich nine-year -old girl Binky is caring for. Though outwardly perfect, Binky finds Nicole to be sullen, overly shy, and forced to act like an adult. Then Binky makes a terrible discovery. Binky must decide whether she has the courage or the right to intervene in Nicole's life. What began as a fun job becomes the scariest reality Binky has ever faced! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 As two young wizards embark on a mission to preserve the universe they encounter an eerie version of Manhattan. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army. Dieter's determined to prove his allegiance and bravery all costs. Spence, just sixteen, drops out of his Utah high school to begin training as a paratrooper. He's seen how boys who weren't much in high school can come home heroes, and Spence wants to prove to his friends and family that he really can be something. Their worst fear was that the war would end too soon -- that they wouldn't get the chance to prove themselves. But when they finally see the action they were hoping for, it's like nothing they could have ever imagined. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In the wake of Karen Holly's tragic death, many people believe that her boyfriend, Jason, is responsible, and when Jason takes a new girlfriend, newcomer Cindy, she and her friends must return to the scene of Karen's murder. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 It's an ordinary day for Violet Briggs until a toad slurps up her favorite marble and hops into a hollow tree trunk. When Violet tries to get her marble back, she discovers a tiny sprite with glittery wings! Sprite shares a secret with Violet - he is on a mission to find a bunch of pixies, trolls, and goblins and trick them into returning to their fairy realm. And he needs Violet's help! Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The long-awaited sequel to the Newbery Award-winning classic Dear Mr. Henshaw. Leigh hardly ever sees his father since the divorce, so when he finds an abandoned dog, he knows how sad it must be. He names the dog Strider and takes it home, not realizing that Strider will soon he the key to getting him out of big trouble. Strider has a new habit. Whenever we stop, he places his paw on my foot. It isn't an accident because he always does it. I like to think he doesn't want to leave me. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run; because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running—well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring. With Strider's help, Leigh finds that the future he once hated to be asked about now holds something he never expected: hope. Recommend Age Range: 9 to 12 Format: Hardcover Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 The summer that Patty Bergen turns twelve is a summer that will haunt her forever. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, Patty learns what it means to open her heart. Even though she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi, but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own. In Anton, Patty finds someone who softens the pain of her own father's rejection and who appreciates her in a way her mother never will. While patriotic feelings run high, Patty risks losing family, friends -- even her freedom -- for this dangerous friendship. It is a risk she has to take and one she will have to pay a price to keep. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Major stress at home with mom's illness. Big fight with the best friend. Where can a girl go to find peace of mind? This new series has a first-person, diary format that draws readers into an intimate look at preteen life in the 1990s. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Zibby Thorne doesn't know what possessed her to buy an antique dollhouse--she doesn't even like dolls. But when her friends and family start having bizarre accidents clearly connected to the dollhouse, she can't ignore the menacing structure any longer. Zibby is sure that one particularly creepy doll in a gray dress is somehow responsible for the trouble. She discovers the doll is controlled by the spirit of "sweet" Miss Honeywell, a vengeful governess who seeks to control Zibby and her friends from beyond the grave. They must find a way to stop Miss Honeywell before her wrath becomes deadly. Cover Price $6.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Welcome to the Weird! Six short stories by Christopher Pike. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Kate likes a little thrill. She likes a little scare. And she loves getting the chance to go to the exclusive week-long writing conference taught by the famous master of horror himself. He's so good at being so bad. With a teacher like that, you expect a little competition. With a teacher like that, you practically have to kill to get his attention. Does Kate have what it takes to be teacher's pet? Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The reader, as an expert mountain climber, embarks on an expedition in the Himalayas to find the Yeti and rescue a fellow climber. By choosing the specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot. Cover Price $2.50 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 Baby-sitter Jenny encounters more horrors from the grave. The sequel to the best-selling thriller The Baby-sitter. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Eager to escape her haunting past, Jenny visits her cousin, also a baby-sitter, and brings her bad luck with her. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Vicious Foxwolf, Urgan Nagru--a fox who long ago discovered the body of a wolf and skinned it to wear as his own--is holding the young Mariel and Dandin captive. The pair are at the mercy of the evil despot and have only one hope of survival. But can they really count on the legendary freedom fighter, Martin the Warrior, to come to their rescue? Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Believing that Charlie caused the horrible deaths of his father and little brother, his grandmother calls in the Calusari to cleanse his soul, while Mulder and Scully search for the true cause of the deaths. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Lonely thirteen-year-old Cassie commences her journey into adulthood when she unwittingly befriends an arctic wolf lost in her town and decides to care for him until she can find his real owners. Cover Price $2.95 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover all its secrets. Before long, Jason, Julia, and their friend Rick stumble upon a mysterious-looking door hidden behind an old wardrobe. But none of the keys in the house will open it. What lies behind the door? And why has someone tried to conceal it? Jason, Julia, and Rick are determined to find out, no matter what it takes.... Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 As the Magickers seek the third and most important Gate into the magic-filled land of Haven, the elder members are being stricken by a strange ailment that drains their power and ages them. And the Dark Hand is more than willing to take advantage of the Magickers' weakness to strike... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 In her unique blend of gothic horror and romantic intrigue, Cusick presents a new thriller set on a haunted island retreat where a cool stranger shows his penchant for mystery--and maybe murder. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Wings of Fire, the sleeping dragon, has awakened, threatening to revenge himself against all of Fincayra. Only young Merlin has the power to stop him-though the price may be his very life. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Marco and Polo might have been content to stay house cats forever. But Marco has read all about ranches and decides he must find one, while Polo longs to find the mother he barely remembers. And then Mr. Neal leaves the side door open by mistake! Now, after their Grand Escape to the outside world, their lives are full of challenges and opportunities they never imagined. Their search for food and a dry place to sleep leads them to Texas Jake, the ornery cat-leader of the Club of Mysteries. With the help of Carlotta, a friendly and resourceful she-cat, Marco and Polo try to earn admission into the club. Before they can join, however, they must solve three dangerous mysteries. Facing Bertram the Bad (every cat's nightmare) is only the beginning.... Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a center of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an iminent, crucial upheaval. Once in a century comes The Harvest: a night when the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world and ours...unleashing havoc. With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy's back in business.... Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Quack the duck is accidentally hatched by a chicken, but he does not find true happiness until Mother Duck shows him how to swim and eat like other ducks. Format - Hardcover Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 It was her tenth birthday on Isis. By Earth years, she would be sixteen. But Olwen Pendennis had never been to Earth. She had been born on Isis. And since her parents' death, she had lived there alone, manning the Isis Light -- a "lighthouse" in space designed to aid ships, and to bring settlers from Earth. And now, on the day of her tenth year, the settlers are coming at last. Olwen is ready to welcome them, but are they ready for her? She was once human, like them. But the harsh climate of the alien planet has changed her, transformed her into something else -- something the settlers could never be prepared for... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 She spots the masked man in the dark, lonely parking lot--but too late. Grabbed and drugged, Christina is kidnapped and held for ransom. When her family pays, she thinks her ordeal is over. But then she realizes that her family thinks she planned the kidnapping! How will Christina prove her innocence? Cover Price $5.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 With Eustace and Jill at his side, the King, the noble unicorn Jewel, and a few remaining loyal subjects must stand fast against the powers of evil and darkness and fight The Last Battle to decide the future of this once glorious kingdom. Sita had thought that she and her companion, Ray, were the last vampires on Earth. However, a murderer who favors dismembering and draining the blood of his victims is stalking Los Angeles, and Sita realizes that her assumption is incorrect. Only she has the power to stop this creature from his evil path; but he's much stronger than she expected, and she finds herself in a life-and-death struggle. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Enduring a second year with the poetry teacher who gave him a D minus, reluctant Jeremy Bloom hopes to earn a better grade by writing sports poetry and finds the task more enjoyable than he anticipated. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In this rousing new adventure about tiny people, Winkie and Tip Small-Fry are lost in Trash City, the secret community under the town dump. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The murderous Rapscallion army is on the move. Dealt a humiliating defeat by Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, the Badger Lady of Salamandastron, who still pursues them, the Rapscallions are heading inland to take an even greater prize: the peaceful Abbey of Redwall. The elite fighting unit of hares, the Long Patrol, is called out to draw them off. At the forefront is the young hare Tammo, the lead sword in one of the most ferocious battles Redwall has ever faced—ready to fight to the death! Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 It is night. And Edmund is alone. His mother is gone. His aunt, who went in search of her, is dead. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one. Except for a stranger of the night. A dark, mysterious stranger who flees from demons of his own... who follows Edmund with grim determination through the cold and shadow city, promising to help, but often hindering. A stranger who needs Edmund for purpose of his own! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Something wicked is lurking in the swamplands on the magical isle of Fincayra-an encroaching evil intent on destroying the land-and only young Merlin possesses the power to stop it. Merlin must embark on a journey through the haunted land to find his stolen sword. But then he discovers a magic mirror capable of altering a person's destiny-and the visage he finds within the glass is someone he never imagined he'd see... A woven Oriental rug is anonymously sent to the Drews from Istanbul and Mr. Drew believes that it is from a Turkish client of his, Farouk Tahmasp, who formerly owned a rug shop in River Heights. Nancy discovers a coded message woven into the rug. The message instructs Mr. Drew to bring Farouk's mannequin to Istanbul and Nancy tries to learn what became of the mannequin after Farouk closed his shop in River Heights. Format - Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Something scary is happening to seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman. Ever since she and her mother arrived in Chicago, she's been plagued by freaky mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her sort-of boyfriend, Webb. When Jamie's inner world starts taking her hostage and keeping her imprisoned for longer periods of time, she becomes terrified that she is slowly losing her mind. Jamie's mom doesn't seem to notice anything is wrong. No one does -- until Jamie meets Morgan, a new friend who's had her own "brush with nuttiness." When Jamie disappears into her inner world one night and can't find her way out, Morgan sees to it that Jamie finally gets help. Morgan's aunt, a psychiatrist, breaks through Jamie's paralyzing fear and helps her unravel a tangle of long-forgotten, horrifying secrets in her past.... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Abandoned as an infant by his father, the evil warlord Swartt Sixclaw, Veil is raised by the kindhearted Bryony. Despite concerns from everyone at Redwall, Bryony is convinced that Veil's goodness will prevail. But when he commits a crime that is unforgivable, he is banished from the abbey forever. Then Swartt and his hordes of searats and vermin attack Redwall, and Veil has to decide: Should he join Swartt in battle against the only creature who has ever loved him? Or should he turn his back on his true father? Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 For Milo, everything's a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a tick watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it's exciting beyond his wildest dreams! Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In this second in the series, Kurt becomes too involved with a perpetual caller to their hotline, a mysterious teenage runaway. Cover Price $2.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In a magical realm, three teenage girls-Jade, Opal, and Amber-are chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Although they meet as strangers, they must learn to trust one another with their lives as they embark on an epic journey, armed only with magical stones and one another. On the day of their fourteenth birthday, they set out on a quest that will require them to overcome heinous enemies-like the ferocious raptors, birds of prey that feast on fear; and the torturous Ghibduls, who inflict pain for sport and theater-in an effort to save an enchanted yet threatened land called Fairytale. Along the way, they encounter miraculous horses that have the gift of reading their riders' thoughts; the brave Adrien of Rivebel, who captures the heart of one of the girls; and Oonagh, the girls' childlike guide, living in the remote crystalline grotto, who will advise them on their course. At the same time, in a parallel world, a young girl named Joa fights for her life in a hospital bed in Paris. While she is dreaming, her thoughts transport her to an unknown realm where three young heroines fight a spectacular battle. Their success or failure will determine the fate of Fairytale . . . and Joa's. Format - Advance Reading Copy Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 More than a year after "The First Horror" ended, 11th-grader Brandt McCloy and his parents are moving into the 99 Fear Street house. Not long after they arrive, strange things start to happen: Brandt's cat is killed by a flying spear, someone or something is moving around at night in the attic, and Brandt finds Cally Frasier's diary, which is mysteriously still being written in. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Merlin's mother has fallen ill. To save her, he must learn the Seven Songs of Wisdom, which will enable him to journey into the spiritual Otherworld and obtain the elixir he needs. But first Merlin's growing power will be put to the test when he has to defeat a vile ogre whose merest glance means death... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to Jessie. Yet , even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 The story of companionship between 14 year old girl and her blind Bedlington terrier as they each overcome obstacles of life. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The second book of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy brings Lyra and her daemon and a cast of characters both familiar and new into whole new worlds. Lyra and 12-year-old Will Parry, in a desperate flight for his life, are drawn closer to Will's father and closer to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, magical, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds. Through it all, the pair are drawn deeper and deeper into a fierce battle that they may not survive. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world comes crashing down around her. With nowhere to turn, she escapes with Harriet into the slums of London's East End--and finds help in some unexpected quarters. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.25 What does he want with her? Tracy Lloyd can feel handsome Brad Johnson watching her. He's not a student at her school. He doesn't even live in Winfield. But Brad has plans for Tracy... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Nate Springfield, his wife Sarah, and their twin Children Elijah and Elisha are part of the Veritas Project Team. This group travels the country aiding the FBI and other organizations in breaking up drug rings and solving mysteries. In Hangmans' Curse, the family goes undercover at a small town high school, where a mysterious curse has turned several of the star football players into raving lunatics who can only be tied to their hospital beds while doctors are baffled by their symptoms. Elijah and Elisha must befriend the various cliques at school, and help their parents solve the mystery of Abel Frye ( a name the sick kids mutter in their delirium). Format - Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Four unlikely students are selected by their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to form the sixth grade team for their school's Academic Bowl. During a series of competitions, the individual talents of team members Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian are used to propel the team to the state championship. Meanwhile, the team's success re-instills feelings of confidence and success to Mrs. Olinski, who has recently returned to teaching after being paralyzed in a car accident that killed her husband. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Why did the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren, who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back. They had to overcome many obstacles, including the fierce and threatening sea. But they wouldn't give up - and soon their determination and their vision got the whole village working, until at last the dream began to come true. Recommend Age Range: 9 to 12 Cover Price $3.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Kestrel Hath's schoolroom rebellion against the stifling caste system of Aramanth leads to explosive consequences for her and her family: they are relegated to the city's lowest caste and are ostracized. With nothing left to lose, Kestrel and her twin brother, Bowman, do the unthinkable: they leave the city walls. Their only hope to rescue the rest of their family is to find the key to the wind singer, a now-defunct device in the city's center, which was once the course of happiness and harmony in Aramanth. But the key was given to an evil spirit-lord, the Morah, in exchange for the Morah's calling off its terrible army of Zars. Armed with desperate bravery, wits, and determination, Kestrel, Bowman, and a tagalong classmate set off to find the key. Along the way they meet allies and foes, but in order to succeed in their quest, they must face the most sinister force of all: the powerful Morah. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 A strange creature has been preying on residents of a small Florida town. The attacks are being chalked up to a mysterious "wolf man". When Nina, Joe, and Bob hear about the attacks, they know their next monster is on the loose. But tracking him down won't be easy. . . . Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 They couldn't have just disappeared! Or could they? That's the way it looks when Dan and Larry don't return from a weekend camping trip in the mountains. Then Joan, Larry's sister, gets a mysterious call from a man who says Larry owes him a lot of money. Where could her brother be? Can Joan, with the help of Dan's brother Frank, find Dan and Larry? Or are the two destined never to return? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Who will survive the long night? Everyone thought the R.M.S. Titanic could never sink. But when it struck a huge iceberg just beore midnight on April 14, 1912, the helpless passengers found out they were wrong. Beautiful Elizabeth Farr and dashing Max Whittaker in first class... Brian and Patrick Kelleher and pretty red-haired Kathleen Mahoney in steerage.... Everyone is faced with biting cold and churning black waters, tilting lifeboats and pathetic screams. Some will live, but more than fifteen hundred will die on that disastrous night. Will Elizabeth, Max, and Kathleen be among the survivors? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Jeannie McGrady loves to read mysteries, drive her mom's Mustang, and think about Ryan Johnson. Her summer seems perfect until her grandmother disappears with a million dollars in stolen diamonds. Helen McGrady's job as a freelance writer for travel magazines takes her all over the world, but it is her secret connections with the F.B.I. that interest Jennie. Ryan Johnson is the good-looking boy next door. Unfortunately for Jennie, he lives next door to Gram, a hundred and fifty miles away. When Jennie enlists Ryan's help in finding Gram, a dangerous search looms ahead. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Two girls risk their lives on the Underground Railroad and must keep on the right course--true north. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Doomed to-or blessed with-eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Although Lexi doesn't like it, many of the kids in Cedar River have gotten into horror flicks, especially the not-so-nice Hi-Fives. Even her friend Binky is fascinated with them and has gotten hooked on the thrill. Cedar River is such a bore in comparison. When Holly Agnew, a superstar teen tennis player, comes to play in a local tournament, word gets out that her manager has rented a large old mansion that has been vacant for some time. Rumors say the house is haunted, and given the obsession with scary movies, it's a situation ripe for trouble. But what starts as fun and games quickly turns dangerous! Holly becomes an innocent target is it a prank or for real? Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 It all started with a phone call. In a tense voice, Alice's very rational father suggests that she drive his precious Corvette and meet him. But Alice doesn't have a driver's license. "It doesn't matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up. Never calls. Something is very wrong. Then Alice hears an announcement over the radio. Her father is dead. And someone has already confessed to his murder via E-mail. That someone is Alice. Everyone, including her mother, believes that Alice is guilty. The police are after her. And the real murderer is, too. It's only a matter of time before somebody catches her... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 One minute Chloe Peterson was a happy, busy teen, going to school, working at a vet's office, and trying out for The Sound of Music. Then her world fell apart. It began with headaches, fever, and aching stiffness that left her weak and dizzy. Then Dad was laid off from his job. And Mom began working overtime, so they rarely saw her anymore. The doctor said Chloe's problem was stress. But the vitamins he recommended didn't work. There was never a right time to approach Mom or Dad...until she collapsed. Todd Bowers, the cute guy she met at the vet's, had seen it coming. He tried to help. She almost let herself believe they could be a couple. But when Chloe landed in the hospital, everything changed. Suddenly she was fighting for her life -- against the greatest enemy of all: herself. Who could help her now? Was Todd's feeling for her real -- or pity? Could she dare take the ultimate risk and believe that he really cares? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents goings on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an intergenerational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sixteen-year-old Cricket enlists the help of the Witches' Night Out coven to help her find the stalker who is threatening her family's farm. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one-with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son with no chance of becoming king; and the magician is an apprentice? Wren leads the other three over mountains and past killing spells, fighting battles along the way. But then she finds herself up against some shape-changing magic that may end her life as a human forever! Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Wren just wanted to find her long-lost family, to get to know the people she could not have dreamed of as a child growing up in an orphanage. 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