David Harry Walker

As a result of an automobile accident, two children acquire a St. Bernard pup that seems to create increasing trouble in direct proportion to his rapidly increasing size.

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Their friendship, as delicate as a new bloom, reawakens Ash's capacity for love--and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing and empowering, Ash beautifully unfolds the connections between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.

32p. ; 22cm

The vanished man/Jeffrey Deaver Don't look back/Karin Fossum [Prey]( Crichton Street boys/Lorenzo Carcaterra

Two teen-age boys are torn between loyalty to the man who has employed them so fairly and loyalty to the two countries whose security is threatened by his Communist spying activities.

Dragon Hill was young William's name for Seal Point, a rocky peninsular jutting out into the Atlantic. William's father had come to this desolate spot to complete a novel he was writing and he and Scottish cousin Mary were given free rein of the area. Legends about old Captain McDurgan, a recluse of 20 years, frightened the youngsters but not enough to prevent them from venturing beyond the ominous ""Keep Off"" signs on the Captain's property... (Kirkus)