Abby travels back in time to attempt to save Dante and defeat the wicked designs of Zo.

Dante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.

Carol Matas' contemporary classic gets a bright new cover! On the anniversary of her great-grandmother's birthday, Sarah is given a family heirloom: her great-grandmother's locket. She convinces her mother she won't lose it if she wears it to school. But then the unthinkable happens -- someone steals her locket! Can Sarah and her friends get it back before her mother finds out? The Lost Locket explores the timeless themes of responsibility and bullying in a striking new package sure to attract the next generation of young readers.

In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.

On a sunny afternoon in June, four of Mrs. Johnson’s students—Blogger, Petal, Amira, and Billy—attend Forest School. Each child is asked to explore Forest School, discovering the fantastic creatures living in this outside environment. When they return to the willow circle to compare notes, Petal realizes her precious locket has gone missing. Together, they undertake a frantic search, but because of the time, Mrs. Johnson has to call off the hunt. Petal’s grandmother gave her that locket right before she died, so Petal refuses to give up and so do her faithful classmates. They have no idea the magic that’s about to occur. Secretly, their teacher Mrs. Johnson is Kayla, the Good Witch of all Forest Schools. Kayla transports the four children to a different dimension where they enlist the help of a mystical grasshopper named Dylan. The kids have two days to find the locket and return home. If they’re late, they’ll be trapped in a different dimension forever!

It is very rare for a writer through reading and reminiscences through papers of stories and recalling things that happened in childhood. That alone can bring back vivid life and adventure set somewhere in the countryside of Kentucky. A tale of an adventure and very convincing ghost story detailed that even a little girl at heart found it an authentic picture of her childhood memories. But this children's story, composed in a countryside two-bedroom apartment, offers much more than just a quaint portraits of Kentucky bluegrass, flowers, and lilac bushes. She knew her characters from her heart, from beginning to the end of this children's story. This tale of an adventure is both deeply moving and exciting in solving the mystery of the lost locket.

The second book in the Hourglass Door trilogy. Dante was unlike anyone Abby had ever met. Now he's gone, and Abby will do anything to get him back . . .