Traci Chee

For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate-- and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

The sequel to the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling fantasy The Reader, “highly recommended for fans of Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and female-powered adventures.”—School Library Journal

Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Haunted by painful...

"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"-- The Book, the ancient, infinite codex of the past, present and future, tells of a prophecy that will plunge Kelanna in that bloody war, but it requires Archer. Sefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard's clutches and their plans for war between the Five Kingdoms: The Guard...

"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"-- Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors, and begins to develop a taste for violence. Meanwhile Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book and begins to believe that Archer is the boy from the legends,...