The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse is a children's classic fantasy novel by British author Ursula Moray Williams, published in 1984. It serves as a brilliant, long-awaited crossover and sequel uniting the two most beloved characters from her most famous works: Gobbolino the Witch's Cat and the Little Wooden Horse.
The Magic Thief: Home is a middle-grade fantasy novel by American author Sarah Prineas, published in September 2014. It is the fourth installment in the beloved The Magic Thief series. The story follows the young wizard's apprentice, Connwaer (Conn), as he returns to his beloved home city of Wellmet to face a dangerous new magical threat that puts the entire realm in jeopardy.
A Christmas Carol (fully titled A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published on December 19, 1843. Illustrated by John Leech, the story was an instant critical and commercial success and has since become one of the most influential and beloved holiday tales in the English language, profoundly shaping modern tradit…
Lost & Found is the thrilling second installment in the Witherwood Reform School middle-grade fantasy series by American author Obert Skye, featuring illustrations by Keith Thompson. Published in March 2016, the novel blends dark humor, suspense, and supernatural mystery, following two trapped siblings as they attempt a dangerous escape from a deeply sinister institution
Geekhood: Mission Improbable is a young adult comedic novel written by Andy Robb, published in 2013. It is the second book in the Geekhood series (following Close Encounters of the Girl Kind), continuing the humorous and heartfelt adventures of fourteen-year-old Archie, a self-proclaimed geek who navigates the chaotic intersection of role-playing games, family dysfunction, and the terrifying my…
The Diary of a Young Girl (originally published in Dutch as Het Achterhuis or The Annex) is the diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family and four others for two years during the Nazi persecution of the Netherlands. Published posthumously by her father, Otto Frank, in 1947, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books in the world, serving as an endurin…
Among the Barons is the fourth book in Margaret Peterson Haddix's gripping, dystopian science-fiction series, The Shadow Children. Published in 2003, the series is set in a totalitarian future where the government enforces a strict Population Police law allowing families to have only two children. The story follows "third children" (illegal shadow children) who must live entirely in hiding to e…
At age 17, Meera falls infatuated with Dev, a charismatic but underachieving pop singer. To escape her controlling father, she marries Dev, only to find herself trapped in a bleak, suffocating marriage in a conservative household.
Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece written by English author D.H. Lawrence and published in 1913. Widely regarded as one of the greatest psychological novels in the English language, it explores the destructive complexities of class struggle, familial duty, industrial poverty in a Nottinghamshire mining town, and the suffocating psychological weight of Oedipal attachment.