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The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat!...

Enjoy these all-new tales of mystery, magic, and adventure from the world of Descendants 2! School of Secrets: Lonnie’s Warrior Sword Lonnie is the daughter of Mulan. She’s strong. She’s fearless. And she’s willing to fight for what she wants. When Lonnie takes her friends on an...

Les Misérables meets The Lunar Chronicles in this thrilling conclusion to the System Divine trilogy that’s an “explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution” (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series). An heir. A renegade. A convict. A cyborg...

“Not to be missed!” —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles “An explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series In the tradition of The Lunar Chronicles, this...

An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. In Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel...

​Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only. Les Misérables meets The Lunar Chronicles in the out-of-this-world sequel to Sky Without Stars that’s an “explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution” (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author...

CJ is the daughter of Captain James Hook. She’s fierce. She’s swashbuckling. And she has big dreams…like finding the treasure she’s known about since she was a little girl stranded on the Isle of the Lost. When CJ sneaks out of Auradon Prep with her best friend, Freddie, they go on a...

Freddie’s Shadow Cards Freddie is the daughter of Dr. Facilier. She’s got voodoo in her blood, a deck of Shadow Cards in her hands, and a song in her villain kid heart. When Freddie’s dreams of joining the a cappella group at Auradon Prep fall apart, she uses her Shadow Cards to get her...

When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the 16-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage - alive - is making headlines across the globe. Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn't on the passenger manifest.

Ryn has one unread text message on her phone. And it's been there for almost a year. She hasn't tried to read it. She can't. She won't. Because that one message is the last thing her best friend ever said to her before she died. But as Ryn finds herself trapped in the Denver International Airport on New Year's Eve thanks to a never-ending blizzard on the one-year anniversary of her best friend's death, fate literally runs into her. And his name is Xander.

After a daring escape from the Diotech scientists who created her, Seraphina and Zen believe they are finally safe from the horrors of her past. But new threats await them at every turn as Zen falls prey to a mysterious illness, and Sera's extraordinary abilities make it more and more difficult to stay hidden. Meanwhile Diotech has developed a dangerous new weapon designed to apprehend Sera--a weapon even she will be powerless to stop.

A phone-obsessed twelve-year-old girl, frustrated by the cryptic boys in her life, discovers a magic app that can read boys' thoughts in this modern-day retelling of Emma by Jane Austen. After a matchmaking attempt for her best friend, Harper, goes wrong, Emmy is fed up. Why are boys so hard to...

One dead body. Seven mystery writers who all know how to get away with murder. In this wickedly clever whodunit from the bestselling author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, the only thing more dangerous than the setting . . . is the guest list. If you want to write a murder, you have to set it...

So many secrets are buried within these compound walls. I used to be one of those secrets. After returning to the Diotech compound and undergoing an experimental new memory alteration, Seraphina is now a loyal, obedient servant to Dr. Alixter and the powerful company that created her. Happy and in love with Kaelen, another scientifically-enhanced human designed to be her perfect match, Sera's history with a boy named Zen is just a distant memory from a rebellious past she longs to forget.

When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay. Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools...

Finally finish the first draft of your novel with a method that maximizes efficiency, speed, and joy. After months (or years) of writing, are you left with nothing but a folder full of false starts? Do you have a novel you were once excited to write but abandoned after only a few chapters—or...

Quando il volo 121 della Freedom Airlines precipita nell'oceano Pacifico, nessuno si aspetta che ci siano dei superstiti. Così, la notizia di una ragazza ritrovata a galleggiare tra i rottami dell'aereo, praticamente illesa, fa il giro del mondo. Nessuno sa spiegarsi come possa essere sopravvissuta... tantomeno lei. La sua mente è una tabula rasa: non ricorda il proprio nome né nessun avvenimento della sua vita, e non sa spiegare cosa ci facesse su quel volo.

In Lonnie’s Warrior Sword, Lonnie is the daughter of Mulan. She’s strong. She’s fearless. And she’s willing to fight for what she wants. When Lonnie takes her friends on an forbidden trip to the Imperial City to get the sword that belonged to her mother, she must prove she’s a true warrior. In Carlos’s Scavenger Hunt, Carlos is the son of Cruella de Vil. He’s thoughtful. He’s sweet. He’s kind. But when Carlos joins up with Evie and Jane for the Auradon Prep Scavenger Hunt, he decides it’s his chance to prove that he’s more than Mr. Nice Guy.

Freddie is the daughter of Dr. Facilier. She's got voodoo in her blood, a deck of Shadow Cards in her hands, and a song in her villain kid heart. When Freddie's dreams of joining the a cappella group at Auradon Prep fall apart, she uses her Shadow Cards to get her way.... Ally is the daughter of Alice in Wonderland. She's quirky, she's funny, and she loves solving a tricky mystery. When strange things start happening at Auradon Prep that threaten the school's big Spirit Weekend, Ally is determined to find who's behind the madness.

The School of Secrets series of chapter books continues the story of Mal and her friends, plus new Villain kids and Auradon kids introduced in the popular Wicked World short-form videos. Enjoy these all-new tales of mystery, magic, and adventure from the world of the hit movie Descendants!