He was a criminal; there could be no real argument. He had committed real crimes in his determination to ensure that Valin’s words were heard. He had not planned to commit assault or theft or impersonation of a watchman; it had all just happened as he proceeded from one step to the next.Born to a powerful family, …

“He is one of my people,” said Richon. “If I make an enemy of him, whose fault is it, his or mine?” Chala thought there was a simple answer to that question, but Richon apparently did not agree. “He lives,” he said, with finality in his voice.A bear, and a hound. A king, and a …

Spies are wise. Spies are strong. But, most of all, spies are patient. We waited two weeks. TWO WEEKS! Do you know how long that is in fifteen-year-old-girl time? A lot. A LOT, a lot.Cammie goes to a school for spies. Sure, they say it’s for any job the girls would wish to take, when …

He tilted his head to one side and leaned in toward her, peering at her like she was a wounded bird. “You don’t know the Song.” “Does it go, ‘oh Susanna, oh don’t you hide from me, I’ve come from old Ilysies with a ten-pound block of cheese’?”The Libyrians live in a library so vast …

If only my savvy worked in reverse, I thought again- and not for the last time. If only I could draw a smiling sun on the back of my hand, then everyone around me could know exactly how I felt, exactly how happy I was at that perfect moment.When Beaumonts turn thirteen, they discover their …

Dr. Bordon nodded for a while. “Just give it some thought,” he said, finally, “and some prayer.”“What do you think I’ve been doing? Giving it potato chips?”Lily’s parents are divorced. They have been for a while, and it’s not the divorce that is troubling Lily. Nor the fact that they have a new stepdad and …