Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, and Emma Trevayne, illus. by Alexander Jansson. Greenwillow, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-233105-2
This collection of 36 short dark fantasies from Bachmann, Catmull, Legrand, and Trevayne aspires to sit on the same shelf as Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and succeeds admirably. The conceit is that the authors are curators of...
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Emma Trevayne. Running Press Teens, $9.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4728-2
Music provides both damnation and freedom in this gripping futuristic fable, first in a two-book series from newcomer Trevayne. The Corp maintains a crushing grip on the population through addictive, mood-influencing music that takes a heavy toll on
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Emma Trevayne. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9882-2
In the grave-robbing business with his father in Victorian London, 11-year-old Thomas Marsden is constantly being told to "find his bones." One night, he comes frighteningly close when he digs up the grave of a boy who looks just like him. In the...
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Emma Trevayne. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6255-6
Amelia Howling, 10, resents her family’s move into a curious old house in order to care for her recently orphaned cousins. Beyond feeling ignored and angry, Amelia can’t shake the sensation that she’s being watched, or that the house almost seems...
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Emma Trevayne, illus. by Glenn Thomas. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9877-8
In her first middle-grade novel, Trevayne (Coda and Chorus) introduces Jack Foster, a discontented boy who finds an otherworldly London populated by creatures mechanical and magical. To live in smoggy, brassy Londinium is to be damaged—either...
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