Tess and her little brother Max (although he’s only a year younger so not by much) are living with their Aunt Evie in England. Their mother is sick at home and has to get a lot of treatments and with their father being a photojournalist who is often sent to war torn areas, it was decided that the children would be sent off to boarding school. In Switzerland. While Tess and Max accept all this with relative ease, Tess is befuddled by a 
boy that she meets when Tess and Max go stay with their Aunt in England after school lets out for the year.
At first Tess thinks he’s ordinary, but the more she really thinks about it, nothing about her entire encounter with William seemed right. First there was the long walk up to the castle, and then there was the gate, that couldn’t be walked around, even though there was no fence on either side of it. And lastly was the key Tess found which appeared old and rusted – just like the gate which seemed to have no keyhole either – until she moved the key close to the gate. That’s just the beginning of the magic!
The Castle in the Mist by Amy Ephron is a quick and easy read that doesn’t really give us anything new in the fantasy world. Still, it is an okay introduction for anyone looking to escape for a few hours one afternoon by dipping their toes into fantasy.
For grades 6th and up.
ories, how to mix perfumes to induce sleep or trust or love– and these secrets cannot leave the city. Caverna has another dark, dangerous secret; her residents do not have natural facial expressions. Facial expressions, displays of anger, fear, sympathy, and more, must be learned. The wealthiest members of Caverna’s high society are taught hundreds of facial expressions, while the lower castes are taught only a handful– and usually ones of submission. One day, a five-year-old girl appears in the depths of Caverna’s tunnels. She has no memory of who she is or where she came from, and her face registers all of her internal emotions naturally. Re-named Neverfell, this girl is dangerous, and though she is unaware, could cause the internal workings of Caverna to crumble. Teens who love dark, lengthy fantasies and dystopian novels will fall in love with A Face Like Glass.
can remember, Brimstone has sent Karou to collect teeth– sometimes from animals and sometimes from humans. These teeth are often given willingly, and sometimes she knows they have been procured by grave robbery, museum theft, or acts even more sinister. Karou never questions what Brimstone does with these teeth, until the day she tries to enter the portal to his shop and finds the door permanently locked, with a scorched black handprint on the front. Now, she is on the run to find her monster friends, battle an army of murderous avenging angels, and discover what the connection between teeth and wish magic really is. This first in an amazing trilogy will keep you up reading all night long!
all times, and has been warned to not engage in physical that will make him breathe too hard. However, on his first day at a new school, the gym teacher yells at him for not keeping up with the rest of the class during a run. He tries, and collapses when his throat begins to close! Arthur is sure he is going to die and experiences a dream or hallucination in which an old, stooped man is pushing a young, handsome man in a wheelchair. The handsome man hangs Arthur a key fashioned to look like the minute hand on an antique clock, and tells him it will help him breathe. When Arthur comes to after this strange dream, he is still clutching the key, a mysterious locked book, and is now able to control his breathing. Weirder things begin to happen… a plague seems to be spreading, and Arthur is being hunted by men with the faces of dogs and blood-covered wings who want the key he was given back. They have been sent by the dark Mister Monday who still has the Hour Hand key and needs the Minute Hand key back in order to keep ruling a mysterious old house that might contain a universe within itself… Can Arthur, along with his two best friends, steal the other key from Mister Monday and save the universe? This exciting book for fans of Harry Potter will keep you guessing until the very end!
In Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and and Adrian Alohona, Kamala Khan is a teenage girl from Jersey City, New Jersey who has unique powers. Kamala is finding out that it’s harder to be a superhero and teenager at the same time. While balancing school and her power, she wants to have her dream life. That involves being a famous superhero and meeting someone that will understand her. She meets Kamran, someone that she thinks that she can trust, until he kidnaps her. She faces a situation where if she doesn’t join Lineage (the bad guy), her family will be in harm’s way.
n. Grace soon meets her wolf, but not the way she expected. When she find out that her wolf is a werewolf she knows what she has gotten herself into as she falls in love with him. Grace puts her life at risk to keep Sam and the pack a secret, until she finds out that Isabell (Jack’s sister, Jack is dead as he was killed by the pack) knows that Jack is not dead. Grace tries to keep Sam away from outside, or else he will turn and twist into his lost wolf. How will Grace keep him from turning and keeping the pack a secret?
