Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest By: Nancy Springer

Rosemary is lost and alone when her greatly loved mother dies. With no place to go, she disguises herself as a boy and calls herself Rowan, and sets off the find her father whom she's never met - the legendary Robin Hood. The only friends she's ever known are the woodland animals, so she goes off alone on a dangerous journey through Sherwood Forest. With her newfound friend, a wolf-dog named Tykell, she finds him, but he is not at all as she had thought. Will he accept her? Will he give her a home?

Ages - 9-12
Grades - 3 - 7

Ever By: Gail Carsen Levine

Falling in love is easy ... if you're a beautiful mortal, and Kezi is exactly that! Kezi is a beautiful fifteen year old mortal, a talented weaver, and a dancer. She lives a carefree life, until her mother falls deathly ill. Her father swears a horrible vow of a human sacrifice if her mother survives. To save her aunt, who saved Kezi in her younger years, Kezi fulfills the vow, and must be sacrificed to her god, Admat, the one, the all. She has only 30 days to save herself, but will she survive?

Falling in love is even easy for Olus, the Akkan god of the winds. At seventeen, he is the youngest god, and often feels like a misfit. When he decides to investigate the mortals of Hyte, he meets Kezi. For them, it's love at first sight. But how can Olus bear through her sacrifice to Admat?

The two decide to attempt to make Kezi immortal, doing difficult tasks, some that bring questions to mind. Only love will help them. Will Kezi survive? Will she become immortal?

"Fate can be thwarted. We hope for happy outcomes." *

Ages: 9 - 12
Grades: 4 - 6

* It is a line from Ever.

Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye By: Kaza Kingsley

Erec Rex has always been unusual - with cloudy thoughts, which tell him if someone is in danger, and forces him to save them, and one glass eye. But when his mother is kidnapped, he starts to find out all sorts of things that he never would have imagined. His moving clock and toothbrush are magical - from a store called Vulcan in a magical world, made up of Alypium, Aorth, Ashona, and Otherness. Contests are being held in Alypium, contests to see who the next three kings or queens will be. Erec enters the contests, and realizes his mother's Eyeglasses which he took along let him see whom he misses the most. With his best friend, Bethany Evirly, Erec sets off to win the contests, and get his mother back. His mother explains through the Eyeglasses that she is a prisoner in King Pluto's dungeons, and tells him how to make a dangerous potion that will blast her out. Will Erec win the contests? Will he find out more about his complex life and history? Will he rescue King Piter, who is under a spell? Find out in this great book.



Ages: 9-12

Grades: 4-6

Pages: 400