The Crystilleries Of Echoland

Download or read book The Crystilleries of Echoland written by Dew Pellucid and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, high fantasy murder mystery for middle grade & young adult readers, with 82 illustrations LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL RUNNER-UP (2018) Thousands of children disappear from our world. No one sees the kidnapping; or if they do, they forget. But one toddler returns after a week, riding a wolf, with a falcon circling over him. That boy is Will Cleary. Will tries to live a normal life. But his twin sister is still missing, and their parents never stop searching for her. Then just before his thirteenth birthday, Will's pets reveal a secret to him. (Though how it happens will remain a secret, until you read the book.) A hidden world lies beneath our feet, a land filled with see-through trees and lucent people. They call us Sounds, and they are our Echoes; for each one of them is a reflection of one of us. It is a sparkling, beautiful place, a winter wonderland. But there is evil there, a terrible law, the Law of Death. When a Sound dies in our world, his Echo is executed in Echoland. And there are those who reverse the order of things, to achieve their wicked ends. They hunt the Sound of the Echo they want to kill. Then the first death leads to the second as surely as lightning leads to thunder. Is that what happened to the missing children in Will's realm? Did someone want to murder their Echoes? Or are these Sounds still alive, trapped somewhere in Echoland? Will tries to escape the frightening answer. But dangers sweep him into that magical, see-through land. And there, in a fortress filled with castaway children, a two-hundred-year-old riddle lies buried. The most important boy in Echoland will help Will solve it, with a handful of other kids. For the fate of Echoland, and of the Sound realm, depends on the answer. An answer hidden in an ancient book... Deep in a frozen lake of gems... Beyond a buried door... At the foot of the greatest Crystillery of all. But many men and monsters, crystal balls and spying eyes, will try to stop the brave teens. For how see-through your skin is is all-important in Echoland. And when this ancient hate will end, the realm of the Echoes will change forever.

Download or read book Shoes on the Stairs written by Jan Steele and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the many frustrations of parenthood and the ever-present fear of failure, SHOES ON THE STAIRS centers around a mother's struggle to accept what she has left behind after her death. Unable to find the promised white light after her death, Claire Blackwell, a harried mother of three, is forced to watch her family crumble without her. But when her youngest sees her, Claire believes she's been given a chance to mend the holes she's created. She soon discovers she has no control over the physical world, and her time with her family is running out. But when her son's childhood bully threatens to destroy her delicate family she must find a way to save them before it's too late.

Download or read book The Black and White Club written by Alice Hemming and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2019 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The original picture book text for this story has been modified by the author to be an early reader"--Publisher.

Download or read book Harper and the Scarlet Umbrella written by Cerrie Burnell and published by Scholastic Fiction. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper lives in the City of Clouds with her Great Aunt Sassy and her beloved cat Midnight. When Midnight goes missing - together with all the cats of the neighbourhood - Harper realises that only her magical scarlet umbrella can help her find him... A beautifully written, lyrical tale created by CBeebies' presenter Cerrie Burnell.

Download or read book Looking Glass Friends written by E. L. Neve and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAN OUR SOULS FALL IN LOVE...BEFORE OUR BODIES MEET? Ellie & Neil fell in love over email, discussing Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged. Neither remembered the other's face clearly. Both were married already. And she had a five-year-old son. But in the span of a few letters each discovered his soul's mirror image. So how could they live apart? Woven with poetry and philosophy this is a story about the nature of love, its enchantment or curse, and the heartbreaking question: Can a mother secure her child's happiness by sacrificing hers? Join Ellie and Neil as they soar on the pages of books, down a path of self-discovery, towards their "happily ever after".

Download or read book Winter's Mourn written by Mary Stone and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer is watching... Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find her parents brutally murdered and her little brother gone-taken by a serial killer called The Preacher. Now a rookie FBI agent assigned to her first murder case, Winter has returned to the small Virginia town where she grew up. But when bones found by a hunter lead to the discovery of a secret burial ground containing the remains of children, the investigation suddenly hits close to home as the past and future collide with each new shocking discovery. Will they find her brother's bones in the makeshift graveyard next? Only The Preacher knows, and he'll do anything to keep the past-and its secrets-buried until he's ready to make his final move. A masterfully conceived psychological thriller reminiscent of Lisa Jackson, Harlan Coben, and Karin Slaughter, Winter's Mourn will keep readers turning the pages-and watching the window-long past midnight.

Download or read book Wild River (The Wild Series) written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers rushing down a raging river on a life-or-death adventure when a white water rafting trip goes terribly wrong! Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip, when he's awoken by screams. The dam has failed. The river is surging, and their camp will be under water in a matter of moments.As the shrieking roar of the river rushes closer, the kids scramble to higher ground. They make it; their counselors do not.Now they're on their own, with barely any food or supplies, in the middle of the Montana wilderness. Do Daniel and his four classmates have what it takes to stay alive until they can get rescued? Alone in the wild, they forge powerful bonds -- but develop dangerous disagreements. If nature doesn't break them, they might just destroy each other.This gripping survival story from the Newbery Honor author of Wildfire is filled with adrenaline-pumping adventure and moments of true bravery.