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A middle grade debut that's a heartrending coming-of-age tale, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Counting By 7s. Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective, Frank, to go over his witness statement time and time again. Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn't realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever.

In 2015, a race of alien Others conquered Earth. They enslaved humanity not by force, but through an aggressive mind control that turned people into contented, unquestioning robots. Except sixteen-year-old Althea isn’t content at all, and she doesn’t need the mysterious note inside her locket to tell her she’s Something Else. It also warns her to trust no one, so she hides the pieces that make her different, even though it means being alone. The autumn she meets Lucas, everything changes. Althea and Lucas are immune to the alien mind control, and together they search for the reason why. What they uncover is a stunning truth the Others never anticipated, one with the potential to free the brainwashed human race. It’s not who they are that makes them special, but what. And what they are is a threat. One the Others are determined to eliminate for good.

There are whispers in the void; they herald the coming Void War. Eight millennia after splitting the atom, humanity's children spread to the stars and diverged evolutionarily, a sentient species divided. The descendants of Terra must now face the consequences, a reckoning of their own creation.At the Star City Hav'E'Na, home to a billion people, four of them will face their moments of consequence where their actions will affect the fate of billions. Terran Naval Academy Professor Jonn Natans doesn't want to be a hero but is too damn curious for his own good. Zaar, First of the Zenve Tertiary Fleet, guards ancient secrets leading his reclusive people onto the galactic stage. Vi, the Daughter and heir to the Vi'Vian Matriarchy, flees the power she was born to learning harsh lessons at the hands of an unforgiving galaxy. Kryxa, of the Mesoa Nel'Raa, is striving to claw power for herself and her fallen house, by any means necessary. Four people, with four different stories, discover their actions can alter the course of history.And we come. We come from far and wide. We come from above and below. We come to save the galaxy.

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family’s new home, Sarah feels a smothering cold mist, and hears the echo of a scream and a heartbreaking whisper in Spanish, “Help me!” Sarah feels compelled to find out who is trying to reach her. But can she uncover the mysteries of the past before terror strikes again? “A master at creating compelling suspense novels, Nixon has written yet another carefully plotted, subtly terrifying thriller.” –Publishers Weekly