Sue Giffard

Gr 6 Up—In medieval Britain, as the Saxon invaders are at war with Wales, Branwen ap Griffith is charged by the old gods, the Shining Ones, with the task of killing the one-eyed warrior and rescuing Caradoc, the god of the wind, to return him to the sacred cave of Merion...

Gr 6—9—In this eerie fantasy, the second one set in the elite Marlowe school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the authors interweave Egyptian mythology with the story of a contemporary Peter Pan and a boarding-school counselor with an international gang of teenage boys (the Lost Boys), all of whom have had their right eyetooth pulled out with pliers by Peter's sidekick, Tina...

Gr 5—7—In this sequel to Oracles of Delphi Keep (Delacorte, 2009), Laurie places her characters at a crucial point in history: the buildup to the Nazi invasion of Poland, which triggered the beginning of World War II...

Gr 5—7—In illustrating the political system that dominated South Africa for more than 40 years, Koosmann focuses on rural poverty and the system of internal passes controlling movement, education, and the reasons for white support of the policy...