Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs...

"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--

Helping to protect the creatures others call "monsters," Cordelia teams up with human and fantastical friends when her beloved father and several of the creatures in his care go missing.

Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.

Starting to emerge from her shell in the months after devastating losses, Annie Lee takes piano lessons from an elderly mall pianist before his disappearance forces her to break a promise to a new friend.

Snow and Rose search the forest for their missing father and discover there is a sinister magic at work in the woods.

Thirteen-year-old twins Tinn and Cole, accompanied by friends and family, journey beyond the heart of the Oddmire seeking their long-lost father.

After their father's mysterious disappearance, Kay and her younger sister Ell set off on an epic quest to find him and, perhaps, to save the world's stories and storytellers, guided by kindly Wraiths.

Continuing their quest to find their father, twins Annalie and Will Wallace team up with their new friends, Essie and Pod, to decode the clues to his location.