Douglas Rees

When Santa falls sick on Christmas Eve, his feisty daughter Jeannette takes his place in the sleigh and saves the day, despite rebellious reindeer.

100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm450L Lexile

Hired to paint a family portrait of four beautiful but mysterious daughters in late nineteenth-century Paris, artist John Singer Sargent enters a world populated by an emotionally unstable mother, a strange spirit, and a malevolent doll.

In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, determines to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as The White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin.

It doesn’t take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don’t like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. When his new friend shows him his fangs, Cody doesn’t need any more clues—these kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit into this secretive community, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious—and some seriously funny—consequences.

Fourteen-year-old Theodore Worth struggles with the decision to leave his home in Boston and join the controversial abolitionist John Brown in the fight against slavery.

When Captain Desperate Evil Wicked Bob receives a plea from his former crew, he heads out to rescue them and is soon followed by his nephew Wilson, Commodore Purvis, Captain Jack, and others who fear that he needs to be rescued, as well.

Tyrannosaurus Rex wants breakfast. He stomps and he roars and he gnashes his teeth and he scares all the other dinosaurs right out of the forest. Only Edna, the very first chicken, is unafraid. She won't let that bully T. rex push her around! But will Edna's mighty beak and terrible flapping wings be a match for T. rex's mighty claws and terrible jaws?

Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed.