Urban For Children

Our world was born into chaos four billion years ago. It has survived to nurture and protect a species that is duty-bound to help it live. And it's not human. Now those protectors are dying, and the Earth will perish. Their leader, Rox, has a plan, but she will not be alone. From a chance meeting, Rox will travel with the bravest creature she has ever met: a young human girl, Ellie. Travel with them both through the dark woods to the far reaches of the past, as they seek a way to save our world.

Christopher Pepper is an average middle school student, who thinks school is boring with the exception that every day he and his best friend Schwags have to deal with the school bullies. Christopher doesn't think he is special and wonders what life has meant for him. Everything changes when he drinks a mysterious silver soda at an old hidden antique shop. Now every time he drinks a soda he gains amazing powers that are different for every flavor of soda he drinks. After gaining these powers Christopher finds himself over his head as he is thrust into a war that is old as time itself.

One day, spunky 13-year-old motherless spelunker Jane Riggs, newly installed by her widowed geologist father in Bosky Glen, Mrs. Babcock's historic Massachusetts house near the wild countryside, rappels herself into an under-the-knoll witch's kitchen and finds the 400-year-old grimoire, a Wiccan training manual, of Hyssop Joan, a white witch Puritan villagers had tormented into going black.

Sarah discovers that not everything in the valley is as magic as she might've wished - especially the nearly illiterate wizard, the mouse-sized dragon, and the warrior who can't stand the sight of blood. Being hunted isn't helping, either. Will Sarah survive this new life of hers, and can she make it home? And, more importantly, will she ever be the same again?

The Pageant is almost over, and Gwyneth West knows she can win - except the prince is a vampire, and some of the other contestants are turning out to be quite beastly. What do you do when the person you love might want to eat you alive? Struggling to hold onto her position in the palace, Gwyn knows her vampire prince could slip through her fingers in an instant. And when human rebels threaten to storm the vampire royals once more, Gwyn finds herself caught between two worlds: her people and the vampire she loves.

Every curse has a beginning. Every curse has an end. But no curse is fulfilled without sacrifice. Someone has been lying to Porschia Grant, someone she loves. And the secrets withheld might spell disaster for her and the world. Much like curses, lies can hurt. They can ruin everything. When everything falls apart, is happily ever after even a possibility? Hunger is deceitful. Fraud is the fifth and final audiobook of The Frenzy Series.

Every animal can talk to you. You just have to know how to listen. Pepper Neely is better at this than most, especially because she is in charge of pet sitting all the Familiars in her neighborhood. A Familiar is a pet magically linked to a witch or warlock. As a gnome, Pepper is no stranger to spells and sorcery. She also knows that, despite their special name, Familiars aren't all that different from regular animals. They get anxious when separated from their people, so Pepper uses her special gnome powers to calm them down. She watches Cranky, the high-strung ferret, Frank, the laid-back parrot, King Arthur, the elderly tortoise, and many others. Then, something terrible begins happening to the Familiars. Someone is stealing their magic! It not only prevents Pepper from communicating with them, but breaks their magical connection with their people. When King Arthur's magic is stolen, his owner's powers stop working, too. In order to protect the animal's magic, Pepper decides to track down the culprit. With the help of her best friend, Luna, and her brother, Jax, Pepper fights to protect all of the special pets.

Rae Kerrigan should be ecstatic. She's found her mother and Devon has admitted he wants nothing more than to be with her. Except Jennifer, her mentor, was someone she thought she could trust and it turns out she was after Rae for the same reason as Lanford had tried her first year at Guilder. There is a new face for the enemy now. Jonathon Cromfield. Except he's not really new, is he? Rae must go charging head first into danger in order to protect the ones she loves and, like her father, no one is going to stand in her way.

Do Tara and Flynn stand a ghost of a chance? The bad guys are after a hidden fortune that belongs to Flynn O'Mara's dying father - they think Tara can use her psychic powers to find it for them. She'll need plenty of help from her spirit friends if she and Flynn are going to get out of this trouble alive.

Trust. It's not really my thing. I can count the people I trust on one hand. On one finger, in fact. So what happens if that one person betrays me?

Dogboy, also known as Bronson Black, is Colta City's 13-year-old guardian in the shadows. After a tragic accident claims his parents, Bronson is thrust into the care of the enigmatic Uncle Randolph. Wielding a blend of magic tricks and an uncanny precognitive ability, he stands against Andrus and the nefarious Guild of Thieves.

In this second book of the Seven Circles Series, Ston and Ivy arrive in the Fourth Circle, a world perceived as ruined by contamination brought in during an Alignment of the Circles. They are taken prisoner by the evil and corrupt regime of the Judicial. In the course of helping one of the last of the deposed royal family, they form an unexpected alliance in the fight to overthrow the dictator and save the world. Meanwhile, their budding romance continues to grow.

Tessa Dark and her friends make it to the island, but her feelings are still torn between Joe and Richard. Tessa faces greater challenges when she is welcomed by the mysterious Duncan Grey. Finding themselves in a desperate game of survival, Tessa and her group are left hanging on for their very lives.

The year is 2016 and with her memory gradually returning, Samantha Carter is beginning to put the pieces of her past together. What she discovers is a life of imprisonment, supernatural creatures, and heartache. With the help of her friend, Kiera Hudson, Samantha must travel back into the past and confront the horrors that once haunted her there. But with her life in danger and her own future not set, Samantha must escape the vampires who have put in place a terrifying and twisted plan for her.

Kalina has returned back to Rutherford, but now there are more problems than before. The Consortium of Vampires has been destroyed except for one - Octavius - and the most powerful of vampires has been unleashed. This sets off the ultimate horror - one of the Greystone Brothers has been turned, and his love for Kalina has turned into a destructive obsession. Now armed with an unspeakable power and thirst, he has sent Kalina and the other brothers who love and protect her a shocking threat.

While 18-year-old Tessa Dark was serving her prison sentence for murder, the world beyond her cell walls changed forever. The thunder came and destroyed the world she had once known. Trapped inside the prison and faced with no future, Tessa's only glimmer of hope is her friendship with fellow inmate Joe McBride. Despite Tessa's fears, Joe decides to go beyond the prison walls to seek help. But when he fails to return, Tessa is determined to go and search for him.

When 20-year-old police recruit Kiera Hudson is posted to the remote town of The Ragged Cove, her life is changed forever. Investigating a series of horrific murders, grave desecrations, and missing persons, with her unique ability of "seeing", Kiera soon realizes her life is in danger. But when Kiera falls in love with police officer Luke Bishop, not only is her mind and her heart opened to a terrifying new world, she comes to suspect that Luke might be involved in the killings.

Twenty-two-year-old Aern is done watching his brother destroy the only thing that matters. He never wanted to take Morgan's place among council, never wanted to rule their hidden world. But when the key to the prophecy is found, a young girl named Brianna whom Morgan will destroy, Aern knows he has to take action. What he really wants is for things to go back to normal. But now he's kidnapped a girl, and his brother's men are after him.

The Queen of England has requested the help of the Privy Council. Someone is trying to kill her son's fiancé. The HRH Prince plans to marry a commoner, and his bride has a secret no one knows but the Privy Council. She has a tattoo. When the Privy Council turns to Rae for help, she can't possibly say no; not even when they make Devon her partner for this assignment. They are to pose as a couple and work undercover, as bodyguards, to protect the soon to be Princess of Wales.

Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life. The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again. Six friends have become five and one is to blame, leaving the four remaining to pick up the pieces of their lives and try to carry one. While mourning the death of their friend, Rylee, and dealing with Kieran's betrayal, Zoe, Heidi, Brent, and Seth all go to Mexico with Zoe's father for their winter break. While there, they discover Zoe's father has kept a few secrets of his own.