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Alex Award Winner - 2004
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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of a passionate love affair that endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap. ...More

The first five books in Cabot's exciting series--previously published under the pen name Jenny Carroll--about a teenage girl who communicates with the dead are now reissued. ...More

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This gripping thriller about a boy and a girl who are the same person--but not quite--and who are living the same life takes readers on a journey into the shifting nature of identity, time, space, and the cracks that can appear in a train rail, a lifeline, or a family tree. ...More

One night in 1978, Tyler Gray wakes up to find a beautiful girl named Shay lying in his bathtub. For inexperienced, nerdy Tyler, this is not a common occurrence, but its even stranger because Shay insists that shes from 2006. Of course Tyler doesnt believe her, but once she proves it, they strike a deal: Tyler will try to help get Shay back to 2006 if Shay helps him become more popular.

But the more time Shay spends in 1978, the more she likes it. And while she helps Tyler with the popular crowd, she also wreaks havoc by going out with his worst enemy, making over his sister and helping his mother get a job as a cafeteria workerat his school! Can Tyler get Shay home before his life is completely turned upside down?

"Publishers Weekly" gave D. L. Garfinkle a Flying Start for Storky, praising its wry outlook and lovable hero in a star ...More

Hijacking his teacher's time machine, Langston sends a holographic image of himself back in time, hoping to prevent the invention of gunpowder because his best friend has been shot and killed. ...More

Jordan has made his decision to stay in the gang. The Cobras can be rough, but since Daddy left, they're the only ones who make him feel like he belongs to something that will help him become a man. And besides, it's not like he'll be trapped in this gang thing forever. Combining scenes of contemporary gang life with the parallel experiences of a 19th-century slave plantation, this story stands as a testimony to all who have waged the struggle to find a ray of light at the tunnel's end. ...More

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America-and into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, "The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. "Let the quest
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When Sky and his cousin Kristin find their Norwegian grandfather's runes, they are catapulted into a world filled with more possibilities and more danger than they ever imagined. ...More

Two of children's literature's brightest stars present this compelling novel about loss that puts a modern twist on Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." When his girlfriend Marly dies, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future. Young Adult. ...More