Chris Sorensen

What do ghosts fear? The Hungry Ones . . . At the outskirts of Maple City sits the Crossroads Motel, a throwback to the days when the motor lodge was king. Two years ago, the motel was the site of an act so brutal that its buildings were left to rot. Jessie Voss, however, sees promise in the Crossroad's bare bones and buys it up, determined to breathe new life into the place. When the Larson family shows up on her doorstep, road-weary and desperate...

A CREATURE FEATURE WITH TEETH . . . JD Speers is having a stretch of bad luck: his wife left him, the law is on his tail, and to top it all off, bloodsucking leech people are attacking his favorite bar. Together with his buddy Rowdy and the barflies of Doc's Dockside Tavern, JD must stop the suckers before they spread their contagion up and down the Mississippi River. Contains mature themes.

Kids can't get enough of the squirrels from Patrick Carman's fun-filled Elliot's Park series. In their latest adventure, Elliot and his furry friends are eagerly anticipating the Walnut Cup-a soccer competition that has the whole park buzzing. But the choice of ball-a perfectly round walnut-proves unfortunate when it's stolen by the nut-happy Pistachio.

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

Join the bats as they celebrate the music of the night in the theater.

Presents financial advice on such topics as the stock market, savings accounts, taxes, Social Security, wills, college funds, life insurance, and mutual funds.

Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.

When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.