(2) 4-6 Eleven-year-old orphan Spindrift discovers that a crystal ball containing an orchid can grant her wishes that affect objects, and that her mother died trying to locate six other orchids. Menacing Roland will stop at nothing to complete that same mission. The portrayals of Spindrift's loving relationship with her grandfather and the madness that controls Roland are almost convincing enough to persuade readers of the folly of possessing unlimited wishes.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2018

(2) 4-6 Amelia's family moves in with Amelia's orphaned cousins at Nudiustertian House. The place is old and peculiar, and it gives Amelia the sensation of being watched. Clever Amelia begins to study the house, but she doesn't begin to learn its secrets until its true owner, Horatio, reveals himself. Trevayne makes her disclosures with tantalizing slowness while exploring the ties between memory, grief, and time.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

(4) YA Miguel, a teen living on a futuristic Earth ravaged by human consumption, is dying from a weakening heart. Chimera--a virtual reality game that offers basic necessities (clothes, food, etc.) as well as biomechanical body parts as prizes--is Miguel's only hope for obtaining a new one. A bit choppy, this virtual-reality thriller doesn't quite live up to its inventive dystopic premise.

Reviewer: Sian Gaetano

(2) 4-6 While grave-robbing, Thomas digs up a corpse that looks exactly like him, holding tickets to a performance by spiritualist Mordecai. Thomas learns that his true people, the faeries, are enslaved by Mordecai to contact the dead. Reassuringly human, realistically self-interested Thomas is a solid foil for the ethereal faeries; his humanity holds the key to the faeries' salvation, leading to a satisfying resolution.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2015

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Glenn Thomas. In Victorian London, Jack enters a door beneath Big Ben and finds himself in an alternate city, populated by people and creatures who are at least partly mechanical. Jack has been lured there intentionally: the Lady of Londinium needs a new "son" (think the fairy queen in "Tam Lin"). The power of loyalty and friendship drives the story to a rousing conclusion.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2014