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"All our lives are stories," and whether you're drinking your morning coffee, evening tea, or something in between—this mug's for you! It's sturdy and glossy with a vivid print that'll withstand the microwave and dishwasher. Grab this mug featuring a quote from SON OF THE DEEP today!
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Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, evening tea, or something in between—this mug's for you! It's sturdy and glossy with a cute and whimsical McClure flying across it (Reminding you: "This is the Owl's Nest; come in and read!") It withstands the microwave and dishwasher. Available in two sizes!
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Anne of Green Gables: Annotated for Teen and Middle Grade Readers
An Owl's Nest Classics Edition
Tucked in the rolling farmlands of Prince Edward Island, Canada, sits Green Gables, home of unmarried siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Shy Matthew and stern Marilla plan to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew on the farm. But instead of a boy, they end up with Anne, a precocious, imaginative red-headed girl. And so Anne’s adventures begin…
For over a century Anne of Green Gables has delighted readers. Anne’s spirit, her imagination, optimism, even her temper, are as winsome to us now as they were when the book was first released. Owl's Nest Classics Edition of Anne of Green Gables: Annotated for Teen and Middle Grade Readers gives adolescents the chance to befriend this cherished story in new ways. In it, editor Katie Stewart introduces L. M. Montgomery and her classic work, explains themes, and brings the text alive with annotations and helpful reflection questions.
Author: L. M. Montgomery
Editor: Katie Stewart
Genre: Historical
Themes: Home, Beauty, Family
Suggested Reading Level: 8-18
What's in this Book? Adoption, Friendship, Imagination
The Carver and the Queen
In the age of Imperial Russia, deep in the Ural Mountains, two teenagers plot their escape from serfdom and dream of a destiny beyond their birth. Petr, a castoff orphan, longs to make a name for himself as a sculptor of malachite, the Ural’s most treasured gem. His best friend Lena harbors an even more impossible goal: to escape an arranged marriage to the cruel village bailiff and become an artist in her own right.
When their bid for freedom falls to pieces, Petr seeks help from the mythical Malachite Queen, only to find himself trapped in an underworld where godlike skill comes at the cost of his humanity. It’s up to Lena to contrive a daring rescue before Petr is lost forever in a kingdom of stone.
Author: Emma C. Fox
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Themes: Coming of Age, Identity, Forgiveness and Redemption
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Magic & Folklore, Death & Violence
A Christmas Carol: Annotated for Teen and Middle Grade Readers
An Owl's Nest Classics Edition
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
“Christmas a humbug, Uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure?”
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On a cold, dark night in October 1843—during one of the long, solitary walks he liked to take—Charles Dickens came up with an idea that would change the world. As he looked around the city of London, he saw that many of the traditional customs of Christmas so popular in the past had fallen out of fashion. In some homes the holiday was not even celebrated at all. And so he came up with an idea for a story that would help put the Christmas spirit back in Christmas—not just in England, but all over the world, and not just for his time, for all time.
For nearly two hundred years, A Christmas Carol has been one of the world’s best-known and best-loved stories—one that readers return to again and again for its timeless message about love and redemption. The Owl’s Nest Classics Edition brings Dickens’s masterpiece to life with annotations and thoughts for reflection that will engage young readers’ hearts and minds and will inspire them to see their own lives in a new way.
Author: Charles Dickens
Editor: Devin Brown
Genre: Historical
Themes: Compassion, Redemption, Restoration
Suggested Reading Level: 12-18
What's in this Book? Ghosts, Death, Christmas and Religious Imagery
Fern of the Forest
Ready for a game? It’s called two truths and a lie. You guess the lie:
- I am a skilled violinist and have taken lessons since I was four years old
- I was found abandoned in the woods as a baby
- I can’t always control my temper, and sometimes people get hurt
Think you’ve got it? Here’s a hint . . . I’m terrible at violin.
No one knows where Fern Masden came from, and no one knows who—or what—she’s becoming. Abandoned in the woods as a baby, Fern is discovered by a hiker and later adopted by the doctor who cared for her.
Flash forward thirteen years and she’s living in NYC, her mother the top pediatrician at Children’s Hospital. Only, Fern is sick; she can’t keep down any food, can’t sleep, and has terrible headaches and coughing fits. After months of inconclusive tests, her mother wakes her in the dead of the night and moves them to a cabin in a mysterious town in the middle of nowhere. Within a few days of living at the cabin, Fern feels extraordinarily better, but she soon discovers that her new home is in the wilderness for a reason.
It turns out that Fern has emerging powers, and now she has another battle to fight. She has to figure out what’s going on inside her before the creature within takes over the human girl she longs to be.
Author: J.L Thaxton
Genre: Contemporary, Light Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Coming of Age, Self-Acceptance
Suggested Reading Level: 8-15
What's in this Book? Conservation, Chronic Illness, Mythological Magic
Hertz Gets Fused
Tech-obsessed twelve-year-old Hertz Zindler gets into Godzilla-sized trouble when he accidentally starts an electrical fire in his bedroom. Bad enough, all his tech stuff is ruined, but worse—Avis, his mom’s guide dog, gets grazed by a fire truck leaving the scene and the poor dog is traumatized and unable to guide.
Hertz’s mom heads to Texas to train with a new guide dog, and Hertz and Avis head to Show Low, Arizona where an unconventional great-uncle has agreed to babysit Hertz. Not what Hertz planned for his summer. He’s stuck in an Airstream trailer park for retirees, struggling to squash his shame and hide his boredom.
Then a flicker of hope. The town-sponsored scavenger hunt provides the means—a cash prize! If Hertz wins, he can buy a used laptop at the local pawn shop and get reconnected.
But Hertz’s past, along with a string of dumpster fires, have him labeled as the sheriff’s number one arson suspect.
Now Hertz must build a team, win the scavenger hunt, avoid the sheriff, and expose the real fire starter or he could end up in juvie jail.
Author: Suzanne Purvis
Genre & Format: Story in Verse, Contemporary
Themes: Lessons Learned, Friendship, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 8-13
What's in this Book? Arson, Light Bullying, Road Trip Shenanigans
Little Women: Annotated for Teen and Middle Grade Readers
An Owl's Nest Classics Edition
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
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There are four March sisters: oldest-sister Meg, who just wants to be “normal” and go to parties, hot-tempered and creative Jo, who wants desperately to be a writer, shy and musical Beth, who cares for the weakest in society, and last—but certainly not least—artistic Amy, who is sick of being treated like the baby and wishes that she was rich.
Each sister—along with Laurie, the boy next door—faces challenges and adventures, unexpected grief, and delighted joy as they journey through years filled with holiday celebrations, near-death experiences, world travel, first loves, and so much more. Devoted to their parents, they must decide if their parents' idealistic ways are worth following into adulthood.
This classic has been beloved by readers since it was first published in 1868. Presented here unabridged, it is accompanied by conversational annotations for today's adolescent readers. You’ll also find short essays on the life of L. M. Alcott, on the primary themes, and reflection questions spread throughout to guide your experience with the text.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Editor: Stephanie Ebert
Genre: Historical
Themes: Home and Family, Coming of Age, Contentment and Ambition
Suggested Reading Level: 8-18
What's in this Book? Death and Illness, Romance, Familial Love and Trials
Muses from the Moon
Author: W. Scott
Other Books in This Series: songs of the sun
Genre: Poetry, Religion
Themes: Faith, Renewal, Darkness and Light
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Christian Spirituality, Mental Health Awareness, Struggle
Songs of the Sun
songs of the sun is a tale of disconnect and yet a story of finding one’s own orbit once again. Within these pages lie grief, blame, relational hardship between father and son, the inheritance of failed love, but also, a tale of hope, rebirth, and finding the strength to break the cycle.
Author: W. Scott
Other Books in This Series: muses from the moon
Genre: Poetry, Religion
Themes: Father/Son Relationships, Renewal, Darkness and Light
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Christian Spirituality, Mental Health Awareness, Relationship Struggle
Not Exactly Love
Thirteen-year-old Leda Johnson suffers from a secret and severe case of semi-requited love—meaning she has a friend who is a boy but not her boyfriend, but she wishes he was. With “Rolling and Rocking,” St. Luke’s first annual Valentine’s Day roller skating party, rapidly approaching, Leda wonders what will come of her unspoken dream and the mysterious cat that has suddenly appeared on their deck.
Author: Devin Brown
Genre: Contemporary
Themes: Significance of the Ordinary, Friendship, Destiny
Suggested Reading Level: 10-14
What's in this Book? First Crushes, Friendship, Christian & Bible Content
Orion and the Starborn
Book 1 in the Orion Rising Series
Twelve-year-old Orion Kim is a hidden boy who knows nothing of his birth. He also thinks he’s human. Some believe him to be dangerous—destined to bring down an empire in the stars. So when an assassin attacks him on his sleepy Atlanta street, Orion has to flee across the galaxy to find out who he is and the meaning behind the new powers coursing through his veins. As he learns more about his powers and their connection to the star-like marks on his chest, Orion attracts curious attention from a watchful protector, the enigmatic royal family of his new home planet, and a host of shadowy, undead creatures. What Orion wants most of all is to find his father and mother, who he’s never known.
But finding his parents could lead to the death of worlds.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Book 1 in the Orion Rising Series
Other Books in this Series: Orion and the Door of Echoes (Book 2)
Genre: Fantasy, Space Adventure, Portal Science Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Found Family, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 8-15
What's in this Book? Magic, Adventure, Family Loss
Orion and the Door of Echoes
Return to the stars in Book 2 of the Orion Rising Series...
After a year at the Stellar Academy and a devastating trip to the soothsaying Sibyls in the mind-swirling Nebula, thirteen-year-old Orion Kim is confident he now knows who he is—or does he?
When his return to the three worlds in the stars leads to violent emotional outbursts that leave him confused and unable to trust his own mind or body, Orion turns for answers to the people who have always helped him. This time, though, his mentors leave him hanging, holding secrets close and treating Orion like he is an odd, mythological relic rather than a confused teenager in need of guidance. When even Orion’s friends seem afraid of what he’s becoming, it’s a mysterious memory-filled Door that may be the only way for him to reclaim not just his life, but his soul, too.
But the Door may hold secrets of its own…
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Book 2 in the Orion Rising Series
Other Books in this Series: Orion and the Starborn (Book 1)
Genre: Fantasy, Space Adventure, Portal Science Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Found Family, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 8-17
What's in this Book? Magic, Adventure, Adoption
Peony Watercolor's Wish for Sun and Moon
Peony will do anything to save her family’s Reading House, so when Hollyfield Middle School announces that the talent show’s grand prize is $1,000, she signs up, determined to win. While she thinks a cash prize will save her, the school’s mysterious new librarian, Lenora, seems to have other ideas. Lenora gives Peony a magic book that might know Peony better than Peony knows herself—a book that contains stories, recipes, poems, and instructions to guide Peony and hold her together while the rest of her world falls apart.
When the fraying threads of Peony’s home life, secrets, and the talent show finally begin to unravel, she must uncover the meaning of the magical book or risk losing not only the Reading House, but also the friendships she loves most.
Author: Robyn Field
Genre: Contemporary, Light Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Coming of Age, Hope and Change
Suggested Reading Level: 8-15
What's in this Book? Light Magic, Friendship and Loss, First Crush
The Queen of Ebenezer
When Beatrice wakes in a magical swamp called Ebenezer, she's met with the baffling wit and curious whims of the swamp's single other human inhabitant, the boy "king," Tom. But something is haunting Ebenezer, and Beatrice must solve the mystery of the swamp before a lurking terror devours them both.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Genre: Light Fantasy, Magical Realism
Themes: Perseverance through Trials, Life and Death, Memory
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Friendship, Tragedy, Magic
Son of the Deep
Orpheo never meant to disobey his father or betray his kind, but when he finds a young human woman weeping over the death of her own father, his compassionate heart moves him to comfort her.
All Rose ever wanted was to make her father proud, but after the mysterious Boy in the Sea eases her through her grief, Rose throws aside her reservations and vows she will find the boy and marry him.
As Rose despairs of ever finding him, Orpheo sells his voice to the Sea Witch and gives up his family in a desperate bid to fulfill their love and heal a hundred-year rift between their worlds. But restoration cannot be bought through black magic, and when Orpheo becomes human, Rose does not recognize him.
At the end of all hope, only great sacrifice can bring Rose and Orpheo a happily ever after.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of Bitter Glass, Son of Gold and Sorrow
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Love, Reconciliation, Destiny
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Magic, Adventure, Romance
Son of Bitter Glass
Eira does not remember her own mother’s death, but she remembers the day Prince Isbrand’s mother died—for Eira loves her best friend as much as any person can love another. On the day Isbrand’s mother was murdered by the Snow Queen, her best friend was cursed—along with all the kingdom of Ravenia—to a slow and icy doom. But Isbrand’s curse is special, and to save him from the fate his mother suffered, his father, the king, imprisons him in a glasshouse and searches far and wide for ways to save his son.
Isbrand has always loved Eira, but now that he lives under the Snow Queen’s curse, he finds himself fated to marry another. Eira is stuck living at his side in the glasshouse where her fate is tied to his own, trying to protect him from the Witch, who calls to Isbrand, tempting him, even within the safety of the glasshouse. And as the curse’s deadline draws near, no plan of the king’s—or Isbrand’s love for Eira—can keep the Snow Queen from stealing him away.
Left desperate and hopeless, Eira must set off on an impossible journey into the frozen north to save Isbrand. In a world of old magic, fae tricksters, and creatures out of time, it just might be enduring friendship and true love that save a kingdom destined for destruction.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of the Deep, Son of Gold and Sorrow
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Friendship, Life and Death, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Death, Magic
Son of Gold and Sorrow
A love that is forbidden, a curse that cannot be broken, and four impossible tasks.
James has always been selfish, arrogant, and unserious. Even when he’s tried to do better, he’s feared the folly and mixed motivations that lurk within his heart. So when the princess Aurelia—whom he tormented as a youth—enlists his help traveling a hard road to her homeland, he agrees more out of compulsion than compassion. Little does James know his reluctant decision to give aid to the princess will change his life forever.
When Princess Aurelia stumbles upon Lord James in the enchanted Black Forest of Ravenia, she sees in him the desperate chance she needs to escape a cruel father and a cursed engagement to a wicked man. Placing her hope in James, though, comes with its own entanglements—not the least of which is her traitorous heart. As their road turns dark and dangerous, she must not only hope in him, but also trust him with her deepest secrets.
As James and Aurelia struggle for survival, they grow closer with each challenge and find their assumptions about each other giving way to affection, a terrifying and futile affection. Because there is a curse laid on Aurelia, a curse that could mean James’s death for loving her. Unless he can do the impossible and free her from what cannot be broken.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of the Deep, Son of Bitter Glass
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Life and Death, Coming of Age, Self-Sacrifice
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Death and Injury, Magic
Thread of Dreams
Nova’s job is to harvest dream threads from unaware humans to sustain her sunless planet against a malicious parasite. But on one particular night, she enters the dream of a boy who knows her—who has been dreaming of her for a long time. And in that moment, everything changes.
Arlo’s dream-girl always told him about a wonderous world beyond his imaginings, but he never thought that world could be a real escape from the traumatic realities he daily faces. Until the night that Nova becomes more than just a dream. Now Arlo must decide if escaping his trauma is worth the cost of following his dream-girl into a new reality.
As Nova and Arlo draw ever closer together, so too does the darkness in both their worlds grow stronger. In the end, it just might turn out that the only way to defeat the nightmares plaguing both their lives is for them to face the possibility of eternal separation.
Author: Emily Barnett
Genre: Science-Fantasy, Romance
Themes: Life and Death, Coming of Age, Destiny
Suggested Reading Level: 12-18
What's in this Book? Terminal illness, Otherworldliness, Romance
A Trick of Spades
When their aunt, Finna, misses their father’s funeral, fourteen-year-old twins Colm and Clíana know she has to be in trouble. Finna finally appears with an explanation: she’s developed an illata, a unique magical power, and she’s used it to become one of the city’s best bounty hunters. At least, until a few weeks ago, when a powerful criminal underlord finally got the better of her. Now, he’s marked her as one of his own. Finna promises the twins that she can handle it, but they know she’s lying.
Certain he can save her from the underlord, Colm follows Finna back to the city, while Clíana chases after them as soon as she realizes her brother’s gone. However, Colm’s attempted rescue goes awry once he steals a mysterious pair of dice, and he must escape from the underlord’s thugs himself. Clíana, meanwhile, sets out to recruit the help of a wizard fluent in the magical language of Alchema. Her search introduces her to an elite, exclusive world, a world she finds both intriguing and impossibly beyond her reach.
As both twins move toward finding Finna, and each other, they soon realize they’ve stepped into a world, and a mystery, bigger than they ever imagined—a world of dueling magical fates.
Author: Tasha Kazanjian
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Love of Family, Belonging, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Adventure, Magic, Crime & Criminal Hijinks
