"In the winter you come to the pit to warm your feet in the tar. You stand long enough to sink as far as your ankles - the littler you are, the longer you can stand. . . But in summer, like this day, you keep away from the tar . . . Ikky was tal

This was one of those books that I could not put down, and that finishing was more difficult than usual. Octavia Butler is one of my favorite writers, who passed away last year, the same year that Fledgling was published. When I finished reading Fled

Best friends Lissa Dragomir and Rose Hathaway are on the run from their boarding school St. Vladimir's Academy, hiding from the well-meaning but misguided Guardians of the school and the evil vampires the Strigoi.  Lissa is a Moroi princess,

   When a tracker marks her as a fledgling vampire, Zoey Redbird is afraid her life is over.  It could be if her body rejects the Change.  As a vampire fledgling, she must attend the House of Night, a boarding school where she wil

This new fantasy series, meant to appeal to early elementary school age girls, concerns four nine year old who discover they are fairies, each with a special power.