young adult fiction

The story of Prince Rilian's escape from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom.

Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.

An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.

When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.

A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.

The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.

In 1593, thirteen-year-old Tom travels through the English countryside to Dondon, where he falls in with a troupe of actors and finds himself in great danger from several sources.

Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, "who travel between worlds and do what is required, " when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to Renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.

The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.