Kata has been training to be a deadly flower--a female ninja--nearly her entire life. She knows the rules a ninja must live by better than she knows her own heart. But when she learns that her first mission is to assassinate a ten-year-old boy, she doesn't expect to also have to outwit and outrun a warlor's samurai and a host of supernatural creatures, who are all after her and the power she carries--a power she doesn't know she holds. --Publisher...

"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...

Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, the famous detective Alex Cross. And after helping to solve two big cases, Ali knows he has what it takes to follow in his father's footsteps. Eager to keep solving crimes, Ali and his friends hack into police calls and go to crime scenes to watch the detectives at work-and try to crack the cases themselves. But when Ali witnesses something horrible, he has to grapple with tough questions about what it...