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Ages 12 & up • Young Adult Reads
Tanith Lee
INDIGARA ❖
Jet and her robot dog, Otis, discover the
unplumbed underworld that lurks below
their planet’s film capital, Ollywood.
There lies the beautiful and sinister
otherwhere of Indigara. Even while girl
and dog try to survive the dangers and
terrors below, their Indigarian mirror
images have replaced them, and are running
amok in the real world above.
5 x 7 192 pp. 2007
978-0-14-240922-0 $11.99
PIRATICA
Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl’s
Adventure Upon the High Seas
A bump on the head restores Art’s
memories of her mother and the exciting
life they led, so the sixteen-yearold
leaves Angels Academy for Young
Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were
her family before her mother’s death,
and leads them back to adventure on the
high seas. “Presented in three acts with
multiple scenes, Piratica is a refreshing,
tongue-in-cheek, tangled tale that will
entice readers who crave adventure and
fantasy.” —School Library JournalH
Rec: BL, C, KH, SLJH
5 x 7 3/4 304 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240644-1 $6.99
WOLF QUEEN
“Following Wolf Tower and Wolf Star,
this conclusion to the Claidi Journals
trilogy finds the intrepid Claidi aboard
the sky-ship Star, in search of her
beloved Argul, who has disappeared
believing that Claidi willingly fled on
their wedding day…readers enthralled
by her previous adventures will enjoy this
rousing finish.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2003
978-0-14-250187-0 $6.99
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WOLF STAR
The day before Claidi’s wedding, she is
kidnapped and taken to a mountaintop
palace in the shadow of an unearthly star.
Wolf Star Rise is the stuff of nightmares,
with rooms that change and move for no
apparent reason. The only human there
is Prince Venn. Neither Claidi nor Venn
knows why they are at the Rise. Can the
two escape from the maze of taboo, repression,
and mystery surrounding both
of their long-lost families?
Rec: BL, K, SLJ
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2002
978-0-14-230152-4 $6.99
WOLF TOWER
“Claidi, an orphaned lady’s maid to a
cruel and mindless princess, jumps at the
chance to escape with a handsome air
balloonist who has been shot down and
imprisoned. Leading Nemian through
the dark tunnels and out into the Waste,
however, she begins to have second
thoughts, which she records regularly in
the journal entries that form this enjoyable
fantasy…The fantasy world is clearly
and humorously described; its varied
cultures are both amusing and believable…the
practical and strong-willed
Claidi is a likable heroine with whom
fantasy readers can easily identify…”
—School Library Journal
Rec: K, SLJ
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2001
978-0-14-230030-5 $6.99
WOLF WING
At last, Claidi and her beloved Argul are
free to get married. But before they can
start their life together, Claidi must face
her past. They return to her birthplace,
the House, to rescue the other slaves—
and find that there has been a revolution,
sparked by Claidi’s escape. Then the
two are urgently summoned by Ironel
Novendot of the Wolf Tower, who tells
them that Ustareth is alive. Ustareth, the
mother of Argul and Venn, the sciencesorceress,
who has perhaps manipulated
each of them for their entire lives. Now
she wants them all to visit her—but to
what end?
Rec: BL, SLJ
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240247-4 $6.99
LEITCH, WILL
CATCH
“The summer before college can be a
stressful one, especially if you have a
physically demanding, brainless summer
job and you are in love with an
older woman. Tim Temples has just
these problems—as well as a reputation
as a ladies’ man that he can’t live down
and a golden-boy brother, who has just
returned home without explanation…
Leitch draws his characters with depth
and charm…this substantive title will
entice both male and female YA readers
with its thoughtful, authentic, and
romantic young man’s voice.”
—Booklist
Rec: BL, CH, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 3/16 304 pp. 2005
978-1-59514-069-2 $7.99
LENHARD, ELIZABETH
CHICkS WITH STICkS
It’s A Purl Thing
“Scottie, trying to get over the death of a
beloved aunt and a disruption in her relationship
with her best friend, Amanda,
stumbles across KnitWit, a knit shop
whose owner, Alice, teaches her to knit
and sooths her with just the right yarn.
To Scottie’s relief and delight, Amanda
discovers knitting, too, and so do two
very different girls from their private
school—biracial Bella, whose good cheer
is disdained by the cool kids, and punky
Tay, whose knitting is fueled by anger…”
—Booklist
Rec: BL, C, PW, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 3/16 288 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240695-3 $6.99