Books with title Secret Places

Imagine a special place where only one human can travel through. A special place inside a magical waterfall. Yes, a magical waterfall where fairies live. But the fairies depend on children's imaginations to ensure they stay alive. Even the waterfall needs the children. This is where a special fairy, Pixie, lives.Author Leslie A. Veinot's The Secret Place follows Pixie, a tree-born fairy, on her adventure to save her friend from the rival sprites who invaded their land. Also, about a special human girl, Gypsy, who comes through the waterfall, makes friends with Pixie and two of these rival sprites who are always looking for adventures, good or bad.The Secret Place is an entertaining and sometimes humorous story. With every turn of its pages, you will feel as though you are part of the tale.

People say there is strength in numbers.She must find strength in being alone.In Itharia, emotions vanish when a person's magic sets in. This makes tears a precious commodity, because when tears break through the spell banishing people's emotions, they become magic themselves.The tyrannical Arcaian soldiers are preying on the Itharian people's impassive existence. They wield a tool that can suck away the price they paid for losing their emotions-the very magic from their bones.Sixteen-year-old Ambry Csille is an outcast. Unlike her kinsmen, who wield magic but feel nothing, Ambry never developed powers...and she feels everything. The night after sneaking out to an exclusive black market in the hopes of obtaining some coveted, enchanted tears powerful enough to awaken her dormant magic, her brother, Ren, gets taken in an Arcaian raid.In her solitary life, Ren is the only one who comes close to understanding her. She has to get him back. Ambry puts her trust in the mysterious rogue, Talon Haraway, who she suspects is an Arcaian soldier and knows the ins and outs of the Arcaian army. But even Talon isn't the ally she thought he was. To save her brother, she'll have to embrace what makes her different. But can Ambry do that when it means being on her own?With bold twists, a riveting world of magic-powered technology, and a slow-sizzle romance, find out why readers are finding USA Today bestselling author, Cortney Pearson's Such a Secret Place, "totally original!"

The Daily News, 12 December, 2000Andrew Harvey, the ten year old boy missing for three days amid fierce bushfires surrounding the small township of Coonabarabran has been winced to safety, and is now recovering in the local hospital.Spotted on the top of Tondoran Spire, a rocky natural steeple in the rugged Warrumbungles, at about 10 am this morning by planes and choppers water bombing the vicinity of the TV Tower, it was a dramatic and daring rescue that ends days of aerial and ground search for the missing boy.