Authors:Anthony Bourke, John Rendall,
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: lion, christian
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0385738560
ISBN-13: 9780385738569

As Ace and John, two friends, are searching for holiday gifts in London, they come across a lion cub for sale in Harrods, the famous department store! Unable to bear the thought of leaving the cub, Ace and John take him home and name him Christian. After a year of fun and mischief Christian has grown up, and Ace and John realize that their pet needs to be among other lions and deserves to live free, in his natural environment. Luckily, friends help introduce Christian to the African wild. Christian the Lion tells the riveting true story of one animal’s ability to adapt to life in the wil

Author: Annette Curtis Klause
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: chocolate, blood
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-08-14
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0385734212
ISBN-13: 9780385734219

Characterizing the adolescent experience as monstrous is not exactly a new idea. M.T. Anderson’s woefully confused teen vampire in Thirsty and Jean Thesman’s reluctant young witch in The Other Ones serve as excellent examples of this metaphor set to fiction. But no one really captures how our hormones make us howl as well as Annette Curtis Klause. Blood and Chocolate chronicles the longings and passions of one Vivian Gandillon, teenage werewolf. Her pack family, recently burned out of their West Virginia home by suspicious neighbors, has resettled in a sleepy Maryland suburb. At he

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: fade
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0385731345
ISBN-13: 9780385731348

IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can “fade.” First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his “gift” soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act.“Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, and you’ll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely riveted.”—Stephen King

Author: Lauren Kate
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: fallen
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0385738935
ISBN-13: 9780385738934

There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce--and goes out of his way to make that very clear--she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: tenderness
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0385731337
ISBN-13: 9780385731331

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for some tenderness—tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness—tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other’s salvation or destruction? “Cormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping.”—School Library Journal, StarredAn ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young

Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: blue, gathering
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-01-24
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0385732562
ISBN-13: 9780385732567

Lois Lowry’s magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people’s lives short and brutish. This society, like the one portrayed in The Giver, is controlled by merciless authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. And at the center of both stories there is a young person who is given the responsibility of preserving the memo

Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Keywords: revolution
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0385737637
ISBN-13: 9780385737630

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she