Darkbeast

Dreamwood

Curses! Foiled Again

Things We Like

Forged in Fire and Stars

Foretold

Theo Tan and the Iron Fan

The Boy With The Witch's Nails

Baltasar Infante, a bookmaker’s apprentice living in 1492 Spain, can weasel out of any problem with a good story. But when he awakes one night to find a monster straight out of the stories peering at him through his window, he’s in trouble that even he can’t talk his way out of.

Soon Baltasar is captured by a mysterious arm of the Spanish Inquisition, the Malleus Maleficarum, that demands he reveal the whereabouts of Amir al-Katib, a legendary Moorish sorcerer who can bring myths and the creatures within them to life. Baltasar doesn’t know where the man is—or that he himself has the power to summon genies and golems.

Baltasar must escape, find al-Katib, and defeat a dreadful power that may destroy the world. As Baltasar’s journey takes him into uncharted lands on Columbus’s voyage westward, he learns that stories are more powerful than he once believed them to be—and much more dangerous.


Discover Your Child's Next Read

Darkbeast

Morgan Keyes, 2012

Dreamwood

Heather Mackey, 2014

Curses! Foiled Again

Jane Yolen, Mike Cavallaro, 2013

Things We Like

Ladybird, Ladybird Books, 1964

Forged in Fire and Stars

Andrea Cremer, Andrea Robertson, 2020

Foretold

Violet Lumani, 2021

Theo Tan and the Iron Fan

Jesse Q. Sutanto, 2023

The Boy With The Witch's Nails

Shannon Shim, 2023