Publisher Annotation: Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.

Publisher Annotation: The first book in a pulse-pounding new series that?s set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over?but for the next generation, the battle has just begun! Lorien legacies reborn series, 416pp.

Publisher Annotation: A gorgeously told fantasy tale, the first in a duology, about a princess who discovers she's cursed to turn any living thing she touches to gemstone - from Lauren DeStefano, bestselling author of the Chemical Garden trilogy.

Amidst the search for a peaceful resolution, Jax and his friends find themselves facing an imminent war as the witches gear up for battle against the formidable Scourge, threatening to drain all magic from both realms.

The underground mouse-city of Tira-Nor is about to be destroyed by the cunning rat warrior Kreeg and his band of cutthroats. Only JaRed son of ReDemec, 'Runt', recognizes the danger. But JaRed has been driven into exile by the city's mad king, and his former friends are ordered to kill him on sight. How can one mouse make a difference against such teribble odds?

Publisher Annotation: In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr?s lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter what?or who?comes between them.

Publisher Annotation: An epic clash between gods and mortals threatens to tear Mytica apart . . . and prove that not even the purest of love stands a chance against the strongest of magic. Falling kingdoms series, 400pp.

Publisher Annotation: Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn’t last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies.

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what's worth dying or killing for.

Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs are younglings training to be Jedi Knights. Master Yoda sends them to an outpost temple on the planet of Tenoo. But before they reach the new temple, they have to learn how to work together to stop some greedy pirates! The World of Reading early readers are designed to offer reluctant readers books they will want to read by featuring stories about the characters they love from a galaxy far, far away.