Lasky, Kathryn

Hannah longs to be a normal woman but she's not. Now she can see a tracing of scales on her legs and notices how waves comfort her. Her two sisters have been separated from her due to a violent storm and have gone their separate ways. Hannah grew up in an orphanage, but now is a humble maid of a wealthy family. Through a series of special encounters Hannah learns that she must make a choice between the land and the sea.

The Ring of Sacred Volcanoes has been destroyed and Faolan is leading his small band of wolves across the ice bridge to the hoped for safety of the Distant Blue--but his old enemy Heep is pursuing him and the icy path ahead is filled with danger.

In this prequel, Ezylryb the Screech owl recounts the story of his life in the Northern Kingdoms--his rise through the ranks of the Killian Army, his brother's betrayal, and his friendship with Octavia the snake, to finally become a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.

Lucy, languishing in stuffy New York society, travels with her family to a seaside community where she learns some hidden truths about herself and her family. Her social-climbing parents push her to marry someone within their own social standing but Lucy has met and fallen in love with a shipbuilder who shares her love of the sea. Her mother plots to keep them apart no matter what she has to do including murder and a web of lies.

When earthquakes and erupting volcanoes strike the Beyond, Faolan and the other surviving wolves must head for the Distant Blue, where they hope to find a new home.

Faolan, exiled as a pup, must somehow find a way to claim his position as leader and unite the wolf pack in a fight against a looming danger.

Introduces arachnologist and biologist Greta Binford's life and specialty of studying recluse spiders in the Dominican Republic. Reveals how the deadly recluse spider's venom DNA might hold the answers to many scientific questions.

In twelfth-century England, Matty grows up to be a master falconer, able to communicate with the devoted birds who later help her and Fynn, also known as Robin Hood, to foil Prince John's plot to steal the crown.

Faolan, a wolf born with a twisted paw, returns to the pack that left him for dead to prove himself worthy, but just before he takes his place of honor, as one of the Wolves of the Watch, a wolf goes missing and Faolan discovers that she has been kidnapped by bears.