Books published by publisher Viking Press New York

Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes audio program, and this season we're adding another award-winning title to our list of Puffin Storytime packages: Caldecott Honor book Blueberries for Sal. The Puffin picture book will be accompanied by a compact disc that features a lively, professional reading of the story. Perfect for road trips or bedtime reading, story time, preschool, or home school, Puffin Storytime will please children and parents alike.

Kirkus Reviews: "In this engrossing novel, KD Kern presents a well-written and absorbing monster tale."When shy seventeen-year-old Riley Borden's abusive stepfather is brutally murdered before her eyes, she bravely tells the authorities exactly who did it: a monster. Not surprisingly the evidence points to her and she's shipped off to a rural Northern California mental institution, leaving her ten-year-old sister in mortal danger at the hands of her deranged aunt. Bedeviled by inmates, emotionally vanquished, Riley becomes convinced that her life is over... but when she awakens to a presence that manifests as the very creature that got her here, with it comes a serendipitous escape and a desperate journey to save her sister—and along the way she learns that the primeval being that calls her soul home may hold a secret more ominous than anything she ever feared.

Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror... First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal." Now the government wants its brainchild back-for its own insane ends.