rites and ceremonies

A graphic novel adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" in which the people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.

Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.

While the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and focus on saving the world of Shadowhunters before the parabatai curse destroys everyone.

A transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry and more.

Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.

Three children set a special white table in memory of service members fallen or missing in action, and especially in honor of their Uncle Jim, a POW in Vietnam.

"Le Grand's Carnival Fantastic isn't like other traveling circuses. It's bound by a charm, held together by a centuries-old curse, that protects its members from ever growing older or getting hurt. Emmaline King is drawn to thecircus like a moth to a flame and unwittingly recruited intoits folds by a mysterious teen boy whose kiss is as cold as ice."--From Publishers description.

Discusses holidays celebrated around the world including Day of the Dead, Chinese New Year, Loy Krathong, and more.

At sixteen the narrator, who is never named, follows her bright, fearless friend Clara into the "labyrinth," only to see her friend torn apart by monsters--and now she, who has always lived in the shadows and avoided attention, must try to survive this living nightmare alone, knowing that nobody has ever returned from the labyrinth.

When Mr. Chu, the coolest teacher ever, develops some very unusual habits and appears to be a monster, best friends Carlos and Benny investigate.