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The Invisible Order Discussion Guide
“A particularly resourceful heroine and some fuzzy lines between the sides set this apart . . . from the crowd.” —Kirkus Reviews

Read The Invisible Order, Book One: Rise of the Darklings, on sale September 28th, and then click here to download the discussion questions!
The Evil Has Landed!
“Readers . . . will soak up his warped wisdom like a sponge and circulate it at recess . . . Muahahaha!”
-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

How to Grow Up and Rule the World will be on sale August 24th!
Raised by Wolves On Sale Now!
Raised by Wolves, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, is on sale now. Pick up a copy at your favorite bookseller.
Al Roker’s June Book Club Pick: Middleworld
The Jaguar Stones Book One: Middleworld is Al Roker’s Book Club pick for the month of June.
Click here to read NBC’s press release
Visit the Jaguar Stones Book Page here
Summer Beach Bag Audio
Summer is finally here! To help our beloved readers get into the season, we’ve prepared audio excerpts for four of our hot summer titles.

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Dangerous Neighbors
Written by Beth Kephart
It is 1876, the year of the Centennial in Philadelphia. Katherine has lost her twin sister Anna in a tragic skating... Read more ->
The Dragons of Noor
Written by Janet Lee Carey
A dreamwalker who has lost her way. A shape shifter who fears his own dark power. A fire herd punished for... Read more ->
Not Me!
Written by Nicola Killen
Illustrated by Nicola Killen
The house has been turned upside down! There's paint on the walls, tire tracks on the carpet, and peas all over... Read more ->
Siren
Written by Tricia Rayburn
Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything--the dark, heights, the ocean--but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to... Read more ->

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Raised by Wolves
Written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Adopted by the Alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it. That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two.
But when her curiosity gets...

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Things I Know About Love
Written by Kate le Vann
Things I know about love.
1. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel.
2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
3. I don't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.
Livia Stowe's past experiences with love have been nothing but disappointing, but all that is about...

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The Boy Who Could Fly
Written by James Norcliffe
A young boy lives in an orphanage that is completely surrounded by a thick wall. Every day, he wishes he were free. He wishes he had a new life. And then he meets the loblolly boy, who is strange, mysterious and who promises the young boy that he can teach him...

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Shadow Hills
Written by Anastasia Hopcus
After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills,...

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Siren
Written by Tricia Rayburn
Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything--the dark, heights, the ocean--but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge. That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family's vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on...

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Stealing Death
Written by Janet Lee Carey
“I want that soul sack,” he said suddenly.
“What?” the witch asked around the scrap of meat she was chewing.
“I want it so no one I love will ever, ever, ever have to go inside again.”
“It’s not for mortal hands to have.” The witch spat out a bit of bone....

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Wish You Were Dead
Written by Todd Strasser
Str-S-d:
I’ll begin with Lucy. She is definitely first on the list. You can’t believe how it feels to be in the cafeteria and turn around and there she is staring at me like I’m some disgusting bug or vermin. Does she really think I WANT to be this way? I hate...

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Dangerous Neighbors
Written by Beth Kephart
It is 1876, the year of the Centennial in Philadelphia. Katherine has lost her twin sister Anna in a tragic skating accident. One wickedly hot September day, Katherine sets out for the exhibition grounds to cut short the haunted life she no longer wants to live.
Filled with vivid detail that...

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Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World
Written by Vordak T. Incomprehensible
Slip on your acid-free gloves, make sure you have a duplicate copy of How to Grow Up and Rule the World (just in case something should happen to this one) and try to follow along as the incomparable, superior-in-all-ways Vordak the Incomprehensible teaches you a thing or two about villainy. Now...

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Virgin Territory
Written by James Lecesne
Virgin Territory explores the power of faith and our need to believe in miracles. Sixteen-year-old Dylan Flack is uprooted from his cozy life in New York City by the death of his mother of cancer the night before 9/ll. He finds himself transplanted to Jupiter, Florida, and in the chaos of...

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Rich and Mad
Written by William Nicholson

Maddy is a sixteen-year-old who likes
a boy in her theater club.

Joe is cute and popular and, incredibly,
sending signals that he likes her back.
Or does he? Isn’t Joe going out with Gemma?

Rich has a crush on Grace, and he even sends a letter
of recommendation from the pope to get
her to pay attention...

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Not Me!
Written by Nicola Killen
Illustrated by Nicola Killen
The house has been turned upside down! There's paint on the walls, tire tracks on the carpet, and peas all over the floor.
But who's been making so much mess?
Can you guess?

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The Invisible Order, Book One: Rise of the Darklings
Written by Paul Crilley
Emily Snow is twelve years old, supporting herself and her younger brother on the streets of Victorian England by selling watercress. One early winter morning on her way to buy supplies, she encounters a piskie--a small but very sarcastic fey creature that has been cornered by a group of the Black...

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Blood on My Hands
Written by Todd Strasser
Callie is at an October keg party in the woods, when she notices that her friend Katherine has gone missing. The kids spread out to look for her and Callie finds her, lying on a path, with a big, bloody fake knife in her. She reaches for the knife and raises...

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Meanicures
Written by Catherine Clark
When three best friends get together, the first thing they talk about these days is always the mean girls in their lives. They decide to banish their enemies by holding a ceremony and burning slips of paper with the mean girls' names on them. But soon afterwards, they discover themselves becoming mean,...

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The Dragons of Noor
Written by Janet Lee Carey
A dreamwalker who has lost her way. A shape shifter who fears his own dark power. A fire herd punished for his magic. Can these three teens keep the human world of Noor and the magical world of Oth from splitting apart?
The ancient trees of Noor are dying. If the...

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The Butler Gets a Break: A Bellweather Tale
Written by Kristin Clark Venuti
All is (temporarily) peaceful in the village of Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay. An art heist has been averted, an albino alligator refuge established, and a family of refugee circus performers, gainfully employed. After much thought (and a tell-all memoir) Tristan Benway has decided to remain in the employ of the Bellweather family, and the...

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Edison's Gold
Written by Geoff Watson
Tom Edison doesn't want his family to leave Yonkers, NY after his father loses his job. But it looks like Wichita will be his new home in two weeks no matter what.
Tom won't go without a fight though--especially after he discovers a clue to a centuries-old family secret. His famous namesake,...

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Write On, Callie Jones
Written by Naomi Zucker
The adventures of Callie Jones and her loveable, eccentric family continue as Callie takes on the school paper.

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Candle Man, Book Two: The Society of Dread
Written by Glenn Dakin
Dr. Saint is no more, Lord Dove has disappeared, and the Dodo has slipped back into seclusion. But for Theo Wickland, descendent of the Victorian crime fighter of legend, The Candle Man, the adventure is just beginning. Now head of the Society of Good Works, Theo is determined to turn the...

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The Dark Divine
Written by Bree Despain
Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared--the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in blood--but she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night held.
The memories her family has tried to bury resurface when...

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Candor
Written by Pam Bachorz
The picture-perfect new town of Candor, Florida, is attracting more and more new families, drawn by its postcard-like small-town feel, with white picket fences, spanking-new but old-fashioned-looking homes, and neighborliness.
But the parents are drawn by something else as well. They know that in Candor their obstreperous teenagers will somehow become rewired...

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