paranormal fiction

Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.

When overweight Billy Halleck accidentally hits a gypsy woman as she is crossing the street, he senses a curse upon him and begins to lose weight with horrifying results.

Hamza investigates an old castle near his home for one last adventure before school starts. A mysterious tornado transports him to the Oriental Museum in Chicago where he comes face-to-face with Ifrit's father Ahriman. Even more ruthless than his son, Ahriman conscripts Hamza into helping him secure the Rings of Power which will help him control the human and jinn worlds. Amira and the fairy princess Aasman Peri follow to simultaneously try to save Hamza and defeat Ahriman.

After twelve-year-old Shane survived a near-fatal accident while playing a game of tag with his friends, he finds himself transported to a dark world where the evil Nightmare King reigns every time he falls asleep. The Nightmare King is collecting talented children, and Shane's basketball skills put him in the King's sights. When he learns about two other children who claim to have been sucked into a similar nightmare world, Shane knows he must do something to stop the Nightmare King, even if it means facing his biggest fears.

After her mother dies of cancer, ten-year-old Kitty and her sister move to New York City when her father accepts a temporary position. Initially resistant to moving, Kitty worries about forgetting her mother without the reminders of their London home. However, as she works through her grief and meets a new friend, she begins to understand that she can make new memories of her mother anywhere she goes.

In an effort to save her mother, who is being held by Hecate in the underworld, Briseis must find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtyus Heart. She is forced to seek the help of the blood relatives she's never known, but when she learns someone else is looking for the Heart, Briseis must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to get back what she has lost.

"In this second illustrated novel of "The Zodiac Legacy" series, the dangerous dragon power only grows stronger within Jasmine, and Steven struggles to hold their ragtag team together. But as alliances become strained, the line between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" becomes blurrier and blurrier"--OCLC.