"If there's one thing Lily Hong can't stand, it's being second best. That's why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge. She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago. Her best friends Kelli and Lauren didn't totally get it, but they...

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.

Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1908 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Jack Nevin's clever trickery and moral flexibility make him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress, one of the most well-known stage magicians in early-twentieth-century Europe. Jack's steady supply of stolen tricks and copycat sleight-of-hand...

"Kaz, Claire, and Little John are off to Seattle, where a new mystery awaits. The city library is planning a Halloween party, but a series of strange ghostly happenings has scared away all the kids. Now Claire and the ghosts must go underneath the city to find out who is trying to stop the party--and why"--Page 4 of cover.