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The Dark Unwinding

The Dark Unwinding

The Dark Unwinding

Sharon Cameron
Scholastic Press
336 pages
$17.99

“Katharine Tulman discovers a fantastic world where science seems like magic when she arrives at her uncle’s remote estate to have him committed to a lunatic asylum. But instead of a lunatic she is confronted with a genius inventor with his own set of child-like rules, a brooding apprentice and a mysterious young student of science, the dwindling family fortune and the hundreds of families her uncle is using it to support. Having Uncle Tulman sent to the asylum is no longer an easy choice. And that’s when Katharine Tulman begins seeing things that aren’t really there.”

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Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head To Foot

Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head To Foot

Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head To Foot

Annie F. Downs
Zondervan
224 pages
$9.99

“In Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head to Foot, author Annie F. Downs encourages young women to take a look at who they are through the way God created each part of them, and discover the practical ways they can use their lives to glorify God.”

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Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

Alan Gratz
Simon Spotlight
320 pages
$7.99

“The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and ‘kill’ him with a spork. Take your victim’s target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn’t get to you first. No safe zones. No time-outs. The game ends when only one player remains. James T. Kirk is playing for fun. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy is playing to get closer to a girl. But when a series of terrorist attacks rock the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the game for real.”

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The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There

The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There

The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There

Alethea Kontis (Illustrated by Janet K. Lee)
Archaia Entertainment
30 pages
$11.95

“Best-selling author Alethea Kontis (The Dark-Hunter Companion, Enchanted) and Eisner Award-winning artist Janet K. Lee (Return of the Dapper Men, Jane Austen’s Emma) combine their talents to present a playful, incredibly visual interpretation of the alphabet by way of Lewis Carroll in this 26-letter celebration of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Packaged as a gorgeous poster board book, The Wonderland Alphabet is a surprising new look at one of the most beloved literary classics of all time.”

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Fantasy Baseball

Fantasy Baseball

Fantasy Baseball

Alan Gratz
Puffin
320 pages
$6.99

“In a strange, surreal world, Alex Metcalf finds himself joining a fantasy baseball league filled with figures from children’s literature and fairy tales. While playing the games, he meets Dorothy and other characters from the Oz series (not just the first book but the less familiar characters from the sequels) along with such stalwarts as Anne Shirley; Toad, from The Wind in the Willows (he thinks he is playing cricket); and the Cheshire Cat. More contemporary characters from the Redwall series, Madeleine L’Engle’s novels, and others have walk-on parts. Meanwhile, the Big Bad Wolf is trying to escape from prison and exact a bloody revenge on Alex and the other players. The backstory, based on a dream, adds up to a goofy, rather ramshackle story that may be too esoteric for most young people. Still, inveterate readers may enjoy the fractured take on children’s literature.”

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Neversink

Neversink

Neversink

Barry Wolverton
Walden Pond Press
304 pages
$16.99

“Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns—few, save for Lockley’s two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird. But all of this is about to change.”

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