• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Release Date: April 13, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-385-73814-9
• ISBN (paperback): TBD                         

Maxwell Unger has always loved the night.  He used to do brave things like go tramping through the forest with his gran after dark. He loved the stories she told him about the world before the Destruction -- about nature, and books, and the silver owls. His favorite story, though, was about the Owl Keeper. According to Max's gran, in times of darkness the Owl Keeper would appear to unite owls and sages against the powers of the dark. Gran is gone now, and so are her… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: October 1st, 2010
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Release Date: October 1, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0823422852
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

“Fans of Redwall and the Warriors series will love this heroic tale of good versus evil in a subterranean society of rats. The world of the Catacombs is so compelling readers will wonder if it really might exist under our city streets. Expect great adventures in Nightshade City.” –Rick Riordan, Author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled… Continue reading

We all know them--the kids who read fantasy novel after fantasy novel after fantasy novel. I was one of those kids--obsessed with the Chronicles of Narnia.  I read my favorite, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, thirteen times. (I have since read it to both of my children so I'm up to fifteen!) As a fantasy writer today, I have to acknowledge my debt to CS Lewis and to JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, another of my favorites. At the same time, Lewis and Tolkien would be the first to acknowledge their debt to much earlier sources… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Release Date: June 18, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0312380960
• ISBN (paperback): TBD                             

EYES LIKE STARS introduces Beatrice Shakespeare Smith. Behind the curtain at the Théâtre Illuminata, you can find the characters of every play ever written. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book--an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family--and she is about to lose them, and the only home she has ever known. The Author: Lisa Mantchev Location: Washington Lisa Mantchev wrote her first play in the fourth grade… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
• Publisher: Flux
• Release Date: July 1, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she's Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don't exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn't bad enough, Gwen's on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she's scared he'll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves. When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen's home as their new… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Release Date: April 28, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061554742
• ISBN (paperback): 978-0061554749

Youngest and boldest of all the faeries of the Oak, Knife fearlessly battles the savage crows and other predators who threaten her dying people. But when she strikes up a forbidden friendship with a human named Paul, she arouses the wrath of the powerful Faery Queen herself. With the help of some unexpected allies, Knife sets out to solve the mystery of the Oakenfolk's missing magic - but she soon discovers that the truth may cost her everything... Also available in the UK as KNIFE in… Continue reading