![]() ![]() Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? ![]() Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. ![]() In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Michael has numerous passions-chess, running, healthy eating. To distract herself from the poisonous atmosphere, she spends hours shopping online and flirting with other men on Facebook. ![]() Jamie, a former journalist who left her career to become a mom, is equally miserable. When his two daughters aren’t watching television or eating junk food, it’s only because Michael is berating them and his wife, Jamie, for allowing it. ![]() Since his recent promotion to attorney manager, Michael Stolis is overworked but making enough money to temporarily patch the holes of his life. ![]() Strack’s moving novel depicts a desperate modern family’s struggle to restore the sense of simple fun and romance that once united them. Dissatisfied with his crumbling marriage, hectic workload and chaotic family life, a Washington, D.C., attorney with anger management issues resolves to change his life. ![]() ![]() But Katherine and Michael weren’t working alone. That’s a lot of material, even for a two-person writing team. Lesh51, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0īetween 19, Scholastic released the 54 books that make up the core Animorphs series. ![]() Fifty-four books were published in five years. Katherine wrote the Endling trilogy and the Ivan & Friends books for young readers, and Michael is the author of the YA series The Gone. Both halves of the couple are writers with separate careers outside of the Animorphs universe. She co-wrote the books with her husband Michael Grant under the pen name K.A. Many fans know Katherine Applegate as the author of Animorphs, but she created the series as part of a team. Whether you devoured every word of the books or just thumbed through the mini flipbooks in the corners of the pages, here’s everything you need to know about the sci-fi saga. ![]() ![]() The series was inescapable in the late 1990s, and it’s still relevant today: The 2020s have given us a new series of Animorphs graphic novels, and a movie based on the franchise is in the works. They must use their shapeshifting abilities to protect the Earth from the Yeerks, another species of alien that crawls into people’s ears to control their brains.Įven if you don’t know the extensive lore of the Animorphs universe, you’ve likely seen the evocative covers. ![]() The children’s book opens with blue centaur-like aliens giving human children the power to transform into any animal they touch. In 1996, Scholastic published The Invasion, the first installment in the Animorphs series. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I anticipated what would happen in the end, I was still very much interested in the story and I found the concept to be refreshing and new – something that’s not that easy in the world of YA books. I was definitely interested in the synopsis when I read it, but I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed this. It’s definitely an instant connection on both sides and Quinn is now set on finding a way to break the curse. Except it’s way worse than she can imagine – he doesn’t just break up with her, he dies. However, she can’t help being intrigued by him and when he opens up a conversation and accidentally touches him, she sees their end. ![]() From experience, she knows it always ends. When Quinn meets Griffin at an art gallery, she’s immediately enamored but also closed off knowing that nothing could ever come of it. Which as you can imagine, doesn’t make a good basis for relationships or friendships. Whenever Quinn touches someone for the first time, she sees how that relationship will end. To Whatever End by Lindsey Frydman is a YA book following Quinn. Connect with Lindsey on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Goodreads. ![]() ![]() More stories should be written with Indian-Americans at their center. Storylines as their American counterparts, such as a commentary about the torture chamber known as middle school, or a magical adventure full of fantastical beings. In fact, the past few months have been reallyĮxciting for me, because I’ve been discovering ways that Indian-American characters can be naturally fused into fictional formats that American readers are used to.Īs the main characters, even! There are Indians in America who are receptive to the same kinds of Roshani Chokshi, who is half-Gujarati and half-Filipina, has said that she wrote a lot of herself into Aru, and into the supporting character, Mini, who shares her mixed heritage. In which an Indian-American is the protagonist. ![]() ANISHA YAGNIK shares her excitement of discovering and reading a story Georgia-based Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time (Rick Riordan Presents), the first book in her Pandava series, is about a seventh-grade girl who lives in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, Atlanta-and who,īecause of a questionable decision, is thrust into the world of Hindu mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Itō's science fiction manga Uchuu Eiyuu Monogatari ( 宇宙英雄物語, lit. Under this name he designed a transforming toy that would later become Unicron. Many of Itō's animation works are credited to the name Hiroyuki Hataike ( 幡池裕行, Hataike Hiroyuki ) Some of his earliest works, including Good Morning Althea ( グッドモーニング アルテア), were created under the pen name "Black Point". ![]() He began work as a manga editor, but found the job dull and began drawing manga himself. He was also the primary creative mind behind other works of fiction set in the Toward Stars universe including the Uchuu Eiyuu Monogatari manga and Angel Links anime series.īefore founding Morning Star Studio in his late 20s, Itō studied planning and editing at the design office Shindosha. ![]() Takehiko Itō ( 伊東 岳彦, Itō Takehiko) is a Japanese manga artist best known for his work on the manga Outlaw Star from his affiliated Morning Star Studio. ![]() ![]() Details beyond just a trope, like a specific occupation or uncommon type of scene.An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: ![]() Low-effort book requests will be removed. ![]() Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub.“What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for. ![]()
![]() ![]() Like this wrote Astrid Lindgren to Tove Jansson in 1960. “… this will be the children’s book of the century, and will live long after we are dead and buried.” Runnquist asked Jansson to illustrate another of Lewis Carroll’s books in 1965, namely Alice in Wonderland, and even though she at that time was busier than ever, she could not resist the temptation to accept the proposal. The proposal to illustrate the book came from the editor Åke Runnquist and it was the starting point of a meaningful collaboration and friendship. ![]() One of her most significant commissions was the making of the illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark in 1958. Tove Jansson was known world-wide as an author, illustrator, cartoonist and painter with an enormous production of her own, but she also illustrated the books of other appreciated authors. She wrote: ‘God bless you for Toffle!! But who will comfort Astrid if you don’t agree to the proposal I’m now going to make to you?’ ![]() The request came from the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren, who at the time was publisher at Rabén & Sjögren. In the year 1960, Tove Jansson was asked to make the illustrations for the new Swedish translation of J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the family she has left behind struggles to survive, only to have their world shattered by the Cultural Revolution. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever.When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home-and that she will never see her father again. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. ![]() Winner of 26 book awards including the 2019 Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEARTrue stories of glamour, drama and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural RevolutionAudiobook narrated by two-time Asian American Film Lab Best Actress Rachel Yong and authors Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao“An engaging and entertaining saga.” South China Morning Post"A volume that demands to be held." Los Angeles Review of Books“Jaw-dropping, exciting, touching, tragic and insightful.” Historic ShanghaiA high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. ![]() ![]() The two very quickly fall in love, but still, the question remains are the Sterlings really vampires? But one day, she encounters the attractive yet mysterious Alexander Sterling that lives in the mansion and feels like he is the only person that actually understands her. Even Raven, who has always loved vampires since she was little, believes the rumors. Everyone in the small town, which Raven refers to as “Dullsville”, believes that the new neighbors are actually secret bloodthirsty vampires. When an old abandoned mansion finally gets new residents, the rumors start to spread. Vampire Kisses is about a 16-year-old girl named Raven Madison who is a goth misfit in her polo-wearing, ordinary, town. Vampire Kisses is a series of books written by Ellen Schreiber. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. ![]() This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. ![]() |