When ten-year old Jacob Lane's parents mysteriously vanish, she is sent to Darkbrook, the only school of magic in the United States. While there, she stumbles upon a series of mysterious deaths. Nine students have died in the past one hundred years. Nine ghosts haunt the halls of Darkbrook. Will Jacob be the tenth ghost, or will she be able to stop a witch's reign of terror with the help of her friends?
When Ophelia's family decides to open up their castle for guests, Jacob is invited to join in on the fun. 'Spend the night in a vampire's castle and live to tell the tale' is supposed to be a fund-raiser to help Ophelia's family pay the bills. (It costs quite a bit to heat a castle, after all.) But when the truth of an old secret is uncovered, what began as an innocent business venture soon turns deadly when the vampire hunters get involved.
What Jacob and Ophelia find in the eighth room uncovers a mystery that dates to Darkbrook's beginnings, and might save the Selkies from extinction. With the help of the youngest member of the Wild Hunt, they must foil the Finfolk who desire the Selkie's destruction... or die trying.
After Niklas' picture shows up in too many newspapers to count, Darkbrook is forced to go on the defensive. But there are more than dragonhunters in the forest, and as Jacob learns how to use her newfound talents, she helps to right an old wrong and must battle a teenage wizard intent on proving--once and for all-that magic is real.
Frankie learns about Leams' unusual, horrifying history and realizes his sister's life is in danger. He must save her--and himself--from what is destined to happen. Will Tracy and Frankie escape their fate, or will they be the next victims of the town's tragic curse?
Dave Duggan's jaunt into the mountains with a couple of girls from school is at first uneventful, but when they get into the mountains and enter an area of rainforest without warning things began to die around them. At first they believe that they have come in contact with poison from misdirected aerial spraying, but that theory soon becomes untenable and far more sinister possibilities take shape...
Thirteen year-old Jami Caldwell and her six-year-old sister, Tami, were orphaned due to a house fire. They are taken to a foster home and the family moves them to Maine, but when Jami begins running away, the State of Maine intervenes and splits up the two sisters...
Bain Kern wanted to crew a starship and explore the galaxies. But an orphan on a colony world in the path of an alien invasion had no real hope of his dreams ever coming true...
Bain and the first generation of Scouts go on a training flight with the first Scout ship, but it turns into their first official rescue mission. Sunsinger has been damaged. Ganfer could be destroyed. And Lin is missing.
Bain knew Lin wanted him to stay on Sunsinger with her and Ganfer, just as much as he wanted to stay, but someone in authority was getting in the way. Lin had to keep a secret from him, and if she told him what it was, he might never be allowed back on board.
Bain and Lin meet up with Ranger Captain Gilmore again. Gil has an important mission for Sunsinger's crew: helping test a new device to protect ships from the alien Mashrami. The only problem is, Lin has to get Sunsinger very close to the aliens in order to test it!
Bain and Lin meet up with Sister High Scholar Marnya, a member of the Order of Kilvordi - the Church scholars and scientists who brought civilization back from the destruction of the Downfall and took Humans back into space. Marnya needs their help on a very important mission: She needs to travel in disguise, to see if the conditions on the colony worlds match the reports that she receives. Plus, someone is trying to kill members of the Order, and Marnya is the most important target of all. Bain's dreams of having the power and resources to help the helpless come a little closer to reality as he learns from Marnya and her bodyguard, Jax.
Sunsinger's crew joins the Rangers on a mission of mercy where time is the enemy -- along with a plague created by the alien Mashrami. Bain and Lin help to deliver medicine to hopefully prevent and cure the plague. When they come to a planet where the colonists are uncooperative, they start to unearth secrets better left buried.
A researcher was attacked, his laboratory ransacked and deadly cultures stolen. With the possibility of a plague being loosed under the domes of Centralis, Bain and Gorgi knew they had to help. But it could cost them their lives.
Bain and Lin go on an exploring mission and meet Leapers - descendants of people who escaped from the abuse and slavery of First Civ. Leap ships travel vast distances in a few heartbeats by slipping through the fabric of space and time. Journeys of years with Spacer pilots take days on Leap ships. Captain Lorian and the crew of the Estal'es'cai have come to see if anything remains of their galaxy and the civilization where their ancestors originated. What Lin and Bain do on meeting the Leapers could affect the future of the Commonwealth
Trouble is brewing, and the crew of "Sunsinger" is asked by the Commonwealth Council to go to Aramar and assist the Commonwealth's ambassadors. And help them escape if the trouble erupts into civil war.
Meruk's quest to find other Hoveni continues as he heads out into the desert, following clues and legends of hiding places deep under the shifting sands.
Kat Dueschner never admires her heavenly-minded mother and wants to grow up just the opposite; an adventurer rather than a nurturing mom. She frequently gets into mischief. While with her companion, Juan, on a nighttime adventure to build an "Easter fire" in the hills, Kat is bit by a rattlesnake. Although her mother is leery of the forest, she becomes Kat's rescuer, but then befalls her own tragedy. Consequently, Kat and Juan's perspectives and ambitions change, almost in opposite directions.
Why is shy, dreamy Ali the only one who has the power to save the magical land of Isshuay? How can Bern, a boy she has only just met, convince her that she must go with him to a place she has never heard of? Who are the mystical Silver Ones who have chosen her for this special task?
16/05/2012
Writers Exchange is thrilled to announce the beginning of another mid-grade reader series by Margaret Pearce...
TITLE: The Wingless Fairy Series Book 1: Rebecca and the Changeling
Author: Margaret Pearce
GENRE: Mid-Grade-Reader/Fantasy
ISBN: 978-1-921636-91-2
Word Count: 17,204
A fairy princess bored with her existence breaks a few rules, gets into mischief, and ends up getting her wish never to be bored granted.