AFTER LOSING HER PARENTS, YOUNG MARY LENNOX IS SENT FROM INDIA TO LIVE IN HER UNCLE’S GLOOMY MANSION ON THE WILD ENGLISH MOORS. SHE IS LONELY AND HAS NO ONE TO PLAY WITH BUT ONE DAY SHE LEARNS OF A SECRET GARDEN SOMEWHERE IN THE GROUNDS THAT NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER. THEN MARY UNCOVERS AN OLD KEY IN A FLOWERBED – AND A GUST OF MAGIC LEADS HER TO THE HIDDEN DOOR. SLOWLY SHE TURNS THE KEY AND ENTERS A WORLD SHE COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED.

JONATHAN HARKER IS TRAVELLING TO CASTLE DRACULA TO SEE THE TRANSYLVANIAN NOBLE, COUNT DRACULA. HE IS BEGGED BY LOCALS NOT TO GO THERE, BECAUSE ON THE EVE OF ST GEORGE’S DAY, WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT, ALL THE EVIL THINGS IN THE WORLD WILL COME FULL SWAY. BUT BUSINESS MUST BE DONE, SO JONATHAN MAKES HIS WAY TO THE CASTLE – AND THEN HIS NIGHTMARE BEGINS. HIS BELOVED WIFE MEENA AND OTHER LOST SOULS HAVE FALLEN UNDER THE COUNT’S HORRIFYING SPELL. DRACULA MUST BE DESTROYED . . . WITH AN EXCITING INTRODUCTION BY HOLLY BLACK, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.

ON THE BANKS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, TOM SAWYER AND HIS FRIENDS SEEK OUT ADVENTURE AT EVERY TURN. THEN ONE FATEFUL NIGHT IN THE GRAVEYARD THEY WITNESS A MURDER. THE BOYS MAKE A BLOOD OATH NEVER TO REVEAL THE SECRET, AND THEY RUN AWAY TO BE PIRATES IN SEARCH OF HIDDEN TREASURE. BUT WHEN TOM GETS TRAPPED IN A CAVE WITH SCARY INJUN JOE, CAN HE ESCAPE UNHARMED?

GROWN-UP MEG, TOMBOYISH JO, TIMID BETH, AND PRECOCIOUS AMY. THE FOUR MARCH SISTERS COULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT. BUT WITH THEIR FATHER AWAY AT WAR, AND THEIR MOTHER WORKING TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY, THEY HAVE TO RELY ON ONE ANOTHER. WHETHER THEY’RE PUTTING ON A PLAY, FORMING A SECRET SOCIETY, OR CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS, THERE’S ONE THING THEY CAN’T HELP WONDERING: WILL FATHER RETURN HOME SAFELY?