They have always scared him in the past — the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger’s apprentice. What he doesn’t yet realize is that…
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Review: I Am Not a Serial Killer
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous: he’s a sociopath with an obsession with serial killers. He’s not interested in becoming one himself, however, and so lives his life by strict rules designed to keep his monstrous self hidden. But things get harder for John when a string of murders in his small hometown appear to be…
Review: The Girl is Murder
It’s the fall of 1942 in New York City, and Iris Anderson’s life is falling apart. Her Pop has uprooted them from their comfortable place on the Upper East Side to a shabby building on the Lower East Side. And worse still, Iris has to attend public school for the first time in her life….
Review: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Flavia de Luce has spent much of the first 11 years of her life plaguing her sisters and learning everything she can about chemistry in the old lab of her ancestral home. Her biggest challenges involve pranking her sisters, trying to capture her father’s attention, and avoiding the housekeeper’s less-than-stellar custard pies. Until now. It’s…
Review: Sorcery and Cecelia
Kate and Cecelia are disheartened about not being able to spend the Season together in London, and so must console each other by writing letters. Low spirits cannot last long in the face of adventure, however, and soon the girls find themselves in the middle of an alarming plot. First Kate is nearly poisoned while…