Ragged Shadows
Ragged Shadows

Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780316372763

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A collection of poems about Halloween and its creatures, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Karla Kuskin, and Nancy Willard.

Season of Shadows
Season of Shadows

Author: Mary Mackey

Publisher: Fanfare

Published: 1992-04

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780553295894

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Best friends during prep school and college, Lucy and Cassie stuck by each other through thick and thin. Now the two prepare for Lucy's wedding to the crown prince of Patan--and to say good-bye. After the wedding, Cassie faces the reality of Vietnam in America and Lucy discovers that she is really a prisoner--and the price of escape may be higher than she can pay.

The Dry
The Dry

Author: Rebecca Nolen

Publisher: SkipJack Publishing

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1939889138

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West Virginia, 1895. A deadly dry spell has left the earth parched and souls desperate. Crops are failing. Cities are starving. A missing newspaper man doesn’t account for much in times so terrible, except to the twelve-year-old son he left behind. When Elliot Sweeney discovers the search for his father has been called off, he boards a train alone to find him. His quest leads Elliot into the depths of an abandoned mine, with a peculiar pocket watch, a blind burro, and a gutsy girl at his side. He discovers a world he never dreamed of, even in his worst nightmares, and lands smack in the middle of a war between two kingdoms. Monstrous insects, smiling villains, and dark riddles are everywhere. Deciding who to trust may prove to be his greatest challenge, while the fate of the world above hangs on Elliot's choice.

Drood
Drood

Author: Dan Simmons

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 0316040681

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On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.