New Releases by Celia Rees

"A top-notch look at first love, heartbreak, and the driving force of passion." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) It''s the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-year-old Richard has discovered that a family has taken up residence in the usually deserted Wish House. Richard is intrigued by both the house and the bohemian family now living there. The father, Jethro Dalton, is an internationally renowned painter; his seemingly licentious wife is fascinated by herbs and cures. But it''s their beautiful and vibrant daughter, Clio, the muse for Jethro’s paintings, who draws Richard utterly into the Daltons'' world. Soon Richard finds himself so captivated by Clio that he steals off to the woods to spend days and nights with her, meanwhile struggling to understand and fit in with her eccentric clan. How could he know that some mysteries are best left alone — and that some betrayals can never be forgiven?

Even if she doesn’t believe in the ghost of Michael Bailey, Alex Lewis is still haunted by the memory of the terrifying incident that took place two years ago, and by the fact that she too played the vicious game which led to it - the Bailey Game. And all it takes for the game to start again is the arrival of a new girl, Lauren Price, who doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of the class. Alex is suddenly confronted with some difficult decisions, but ultimately her friendship with Lauren and her memory of the unstoppable Bailey Game demand that this time she opts out of the game and faces the perils of being on the outside . . . ‘A very exciting and disturbing tale which will hold the reader’s interest right to the end. I highly recommend THE BAILEY GAME’ Michele Elliot, KIDSCAPE

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family''s Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

C''est à la lecture du journal dune sorcière qu''Agnes Herne, jeune Indienne Mohawk, comprend qu''il lui faut retrouver la trace de Mary, disparue trois siècles plus tôt, et dont le destin est étrangement lié au sien. Avec l''aide de tante M., au lac Miroir, dans la loge de sudation, Agnes n''est plus Agnes, ni Karonhisake, Celle qui scrute le ciel... elle est Anglaise, s''appelle Mary et fuit pour sauver sa vie... Et Mary nous conte sa propre histoire, celle d''une adolescente fugitive recueillie par Geai et Aigle Blanc, celle d''une femme acceptée par la tribu sous le nom d''Yeux de loup, femme de Geai, mère de Renard Noir et d''Oiseau Moucheté, et qui verra sa famille et son peuple d''adoption massacrés far l''homme blanc...

Corrían el año 1659, y el país de Inglaterra buscaba por todas partes a las mujeres sospechosas de brujería. Una anciana condenada a la ahorca muere delante de su nieta llamada Mary Newbury quien también posee poderes mágicos. La muchacha decide abandonar el pueblo donde vivía con ella y emprende un viaje a América, lugar que promete un futuro mejor para su vida, sin tantas persecuciones. El viaje lo realiza por mar junto a un grupo de puritanos que van como colonos. Mary llega al nuevo continente y se hospeda junto a unos familiares en el pueblo de Salem. Allí, la chica comienza a fomentar la duda entre los ingleses por sus reiterados viajes al bosque en busca de plantas que utiliza como medicina y aún más porque entabla amistad con un indio americano.

Ten years of Point Horror-not for the faint-hearted. Horror at its hideous best... Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick: The first time Martha sees the house she knows it''s evil. Somewhere so cold and sinister couldn''t be anything else. So she''s not surprised to find that someone was murdered in it. Not surprised, just scared out of her mind. She''s also sure someone''s watching her. Following her. Making creepy phone calls. Martha''s pretty certain that this Halloween is going to be the scariest of her life and possibly her last... April Fools by Richie Tankersley Cusick: Frank thinks he''s King of the Fools. This is his day. So when he and his friends get cut up by some hotshot driver...well, fair game. But the game goes wrong and suddenly things aren''t so funny any more... Two weeks later, the ''pranks'' start. Someone saw what happened that night, and wants to join in the fun. But April Fools'' Day is over and these jokes are for real... Blood Sinister by Celia Rees: The old, leather bound diary is just a diversion for Ellen at first. Sent to rest at her grandmother''s house, she begins reading to take her mind off her mysterious illness. For no one knows why she''s so pale, so bloodless...But the bizarre history that unfolds is so compelling, so strangely tangled up with her own life that Ellen begins to feel even more drained than before...could something be reaching across the centuries to claim her, bleeding her dry...?

Omdat de 14-jarige Mary in Engeland gevaar loopt als heks te worden beschouwd, reist ze midden 17e eeuw naar Amerika, waar ze met haar geneeskrachtige kruiden velen helpt.

Ellen Forrest cannot explain why she is so pale and weak until she starts to read the diary of her great-grandmother, another Ellen, and realizes that th two lives are so entangled that the evil the first Ellen faced may be coming after her.

New cover edition. A chilling supernatural tale of an adolescent boy''s pact with a deadly puppet master ...