There’s a certain kind of silence when you wake in the deep of night, in a strange bed, knowing that someone else is in the room.And seventeen-year-old May has just awoken to...what? A ghost girl. A girl with May’s face, hair, and complexion. A ghostly twin named Cristofana. And this twin wants a favor of May: Come to Old Florence; come to the year 1348.In modern-day Florence for the summer, May is soon seduced into saying yes. And when she encounters a brooding medieval painter, her curiosity about the past explodes into desire. But Old Florence is falling apart: the Black Death is sweeping the city, and Cristofana has vowed to save herself by escaping into the future. May is in a fight for her life.The only problem is that Cristofana is just as determined to steal it.

Product Description: There’s a certain kind of silence when you wake in the deep of night, in a strange bed, knowing that someone else is in the room.And seventeen-year-old May has just awoken to...what? A ghost girl. A girl with May’s face, hair, and complexion...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Full-color photographs of wild animals, including hippos, zebras and lions, are presented in this unique poetry book that challenges young readers to find the secret messages hidden within the text.

This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories:The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists.The second story in Captivity is about loss and grief. It is the evocative tale of the bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara Gill, a reclusive woman of a certain age who long ago isolated herself with her paintings, following the scandalous loss of her beautiful young lover in London.Lyrical and authentic—and more than a bit shadowy—Captivity is, finally, a tale about physical desire and the hope that even the thinnest faith can offer up to a darkening heart.

Product Description: In her classic ghost story “Kerfol,” Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs―no live dogs―at Kerfol that day...read more

Product Description: In her classic ghost story “Kerfol,” Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs―no live dogs―at Kerfol that day...read more

Product Description: Freaks, magicians, psychics, and the passing strange take center stage in ten original tales by top YA authors and graphic novelists.Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to fi nd that her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight...read more

Covers climate, botany, plant growth, propagation, soils, vegetable gardening, trees, fruits, nuts, flowers, landscape maintenance, indoor plants, and greenhouses

A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland.

Product Description: How much do we truly know and understand about our own mortality? Enter Encyclopedia of the End, a compulsively readable and beautifully illustrated compendium that explores this most taboo of topics. Entries present a kaleidoscopic mix of topics from afterlife to assassination, forensic science to funeral foods, rigor mortis to reincarnation and more...read more

In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents' kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to secretly take with her a precious reminder of home.

Product Description: "Deliciously gruesome." — Booklist (starred review)Enter the murky world of the undead. From a beyond-the-grave stalker to prankster devil worshippers, from a childish ghost of the future to a vampire lover with bloody ties to the past, the characters in these ten original stories will send shivers down your spine...read more

Seven-year-old Bulu describes events surrounding the arrival of two wolf girls at her Indian orphanage, including attempts to teach them to eat properly and to speak.

Product Description: At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at such a place, when she begins life as the bastard child of a woman publicly humiliated, again and again, in an unrelentingly judgmental Puritan world...read more

Offers a look at the strong relationship between man and animal in various cultures around the world throughout time--such as the revered cow in India and the worshipping of cats in Egypt--through an informative, factual narrative enhanced with black-and-white photos by the author.

From a lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant and a serial killer who defies death, to a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds within its peeling walls a grotesque secret, these ten stories draw on dark fantasy and fairy tale, horror and wild humour, the supernatural and the surreal.

Doomed to spend his time alone in a castle because of the terrible tantrums he throws, Vladimir the vampire wants more than anything to be able to fly.