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Published in 2010, more than twenty years after the series originated with The Eye of the World, Towers of Midnight is the thirteenth and next-to-last entry in The Wheel of Time cycle of fantasy novels. One of the problems with planning such a...
The Gathering Storm is the book twelve in Robert Jordan’s fantasy fiction series collective known as the Wheel of Time. At the time of Jordan’s death on September 16, 2007, the book was not yet completed. Jordan’s editor, Tom Doherty and his widow...
Knife of Dreams is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the eleventh novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books...
Crossroads of Twilight is the tenth book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Published in January 2003, it was preceded by Winter’s Heart and followed by Knife of Dreams. Despite being published afterward, the chronological timelines of...
Winter's Heart is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the ninth novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books in...
Belly Up is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Stuart Gibbs and was published in 2010. The novel is the first book from the FunJungle series involving an exotic animal zoo and a 12-year-old protagonist named Theodore (Teddy)...
“The Unteachables” is a middle grade novel set in a school, following a class of students that are deemed unteachable delinquents and slow in learning. The author of the book started writing very young, and his books are mostly dedicated to young...
Dreamland Burning is a historical fictional novel written by author Jennifer Latham and was first published by Little, Brown Young Readers US on 23 February 2017. Latham is the author of Scarlett Undercover and resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an area...
The Princess Diaries is a fictional young adult novel written by American author Meg Cabot and was first published by HarperTrophy in 2000. The book is the first in its series, and was followed by The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the...
“A Step From Heaven” is a novel told from a perspective of a young Korean girl who learns that her family will move to a place called Mi Gook, which she believes to be heaven. Mi Gook is a literal romanization of the Korean word for America, which...
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is the origin point for the series of novels collectively known as the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson. While the series may not be as well-known to American readers as something alongside the Captain...
If You Come Softly is a young-adult novel by American author Jacqueline Woodson. It was initially published in 1998 and later in 2006 by Speak Publishers. Set in New York, Elisha and Jeremiah are both students attending Percy Academy. The school...
Weetzie Bat is a teenage novel written by American author Francesca Lia Block and was first published by HarperCollins in 1989. The book is the first in her Dangerous Angels series, and was followed by Witch Baby in 1991.
The book follows the...
Homecoming is a YA novel published by Cynthia Voigt in 1981. It is the work which introduced the family at the heart of what would come to be known collectively as the Tillerman Cycle. This a series of seven books Voigt published between 1981 and...
First published in 1978, A Swiftly Tilting Planet is the third book in the science fiction Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle. The first book in the series is A Wrinkle in Time. A Swiftly Tilting Planet begins ten years after the last events in A...
Forever is a teen novel written by American author Judy Blume and was first published by Bradbury Press in 1975. The book has been received controversially since its publication, and has appeared on the American Library Association list of the 100...
Alice Childress' A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich was published in 1973. Set in the ghettos of Harlem, New York, the novel was written for young adults. It follows a thirteen-year-old teenage boy named Benjie who struggles with things no...
"When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes" is a poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. It is technically titled ‘‘Sonnet LXXXIX’’ and originally appeared in the poet's 1959 collection, One Hundred Love Sonnets. As the title of that collection suggests,...
The Path of Daggers is a fantasy novel written by American author Robert Jordan, and was first published by Tor Books on October 20, 1998. The book is the eighth in his Wheel of Time series and was preceded by A Crown of Swords (1996).
The book...
A Crown of Swords (which really sounds like it should be a book in the Game of Thrones series, doesn't it?) is the seventh entry in Robert Jordan’s wildly successful fantasy novel series collectively known as The Wheel of Time. It was published in...
Lord of Chaos is an epic fantasy novel written by American author Robert Jordan and was first published and released by Tor Books on October 15, 1994. The book is the sixth in the Wheel of Time series and was preceded by the New York Times...
Originally published in 1993 by Tor Books, The Fires of Heaven is the fifth of fourteen books in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. The fantasy novel focuses on Couladin Rand Al'thor, who leads several Aiel clans after being recognized as...
The fourth book in The Wheel of Time series, The Shadow Rising is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan. The book follows the story of main character and protagonist Rand al'Thor after he proves himself to be the Dragon Reborn.
The...
