Books with title The Evil Garden

Great-Uncle Franz, beside the lake,Is being strangled by a snake.The peaches, apples, plums, and pearsAre guarded by ferocious bears.Alexa watches while her auntIs pulled feet first inside a plant.A happy, naive family enters the Evil Garden (free admission!) to spend a sunny afternoon in its inviting landscape, lush with exotic trees and flowers. They soon realize their mistake, as harrowing sounds and evidence of foul play emerge. When humongous hairy bugs, famished carnivorous plants, ferocious fruit-guarding bears, and a sinister strangling snake take charge, the family's ominous feelings turn to full-on panic—but where's the exit?Edward Gorey leads us through this nefarious garden with a light step. His unmistakable drawings paired with engaging couplets produce giggles, not gasps. Perhaps The Evil Garden is a morality tale; perhaps it's simply an enigmatic entertainment. Whatever the interpretation, it's a prime example of the iconic storytelling genius that is Edward Gorey.

Only One Will Graduate Welcome to Warrior High where the motto is "Fight Like a Girl." This is no alternative school or after-school program for at-risk youth; this is a private modeling academy preparing teen girls on how to become successful models when they become adults. One method is for them to learn the brutalities of competition in the school's Friday Fights. As the school faces financial trouble, both the prom queen, hell-bent on being the best and only of her class to graduate, along with the principal hatch a sinister plot to make that happen - by hosting a teen girl fight club from Hell where high school girls kill each other inside a brutal cage, all while being wagered against and broadcast all over the dark web to a wealthy clientele, including their own parents! Who Says High School Isn't Brutal? Here it's not the best years of these young girls' lives, it's their final years and only one girl will walk at graduation! No teenage daughter is safe in this action-packed excitement of wicked horrors! Inspired by several shocking true crimes from the Midwest, from illegal fight clubs hosted by preschools & high schools to corrupt judges selling kids to prisons in "Kids for Cash" schemes. Help bring awareness to crimes against children with products like these that present the problems at hand so we as society can provide the solutions. True crime horror based on shockingly real fight clubs, sometimes even hosted by the schools themselves! Based on the real life, Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania! Contains profanity, brutal violence, and disturbing behaviors - all involving teens. Screenplay format.Colored photos.48 pages of teen terror! JOIN THE TEEN SPIRIT SQUAD!Dare to be DifferentLet's face it. Growing up as a tween or teenager with an interest in entering the entertainment industry in today's world can be brutal.But it doesn't have to be.Many teenagers have interests different from their community's "social norms."And often feel alone.But now you don't have to thanks to the Teen Spirit Squad!Dare to be different by becoming a part of our exclusive club today!We offer cool and edgy book and magazine cover opportunities for tweens and teens alike! To be considered for membership into the Teen Spirit Squad, your teen must first be published on the cover of the book, The Academy. From there your teen can be published, in a feature magazine of just his or her photos. This stringent requirement is in place so we can remain focused on promoting professional talents with ambitions of fulfilling bold and daring careers throughout their formative teen years, in the style of Chloe Grace Moretz, India Eisely, Joey King, Elle Fanning, and Abigail Breslin, and with content similar to a modern MTV and classic Nickelodeon mixed with "The N," HBO, and IFC.Teen Spirit Squad publishes teenagers between the ages of 10 to 19and all submissions for teens ages 10-17 must be signed by a parent even if the tween or teenager is under representation. Emancipated minors must show legal documentation from a court when submitting.Teen Spirit SquadEmail: teenspiritsquad@gmail.comInstagram: @teenspiritsquadmediaWeb site: www.TeenSpiritSquad.com andhttp://teenspiritsquad.weebly.com

It is lush, vibrant, and ever-changing. Though raucous and overgrown with a breathtaking variety of savory, beautiful delights, it is a deliberate expression of harsh discipline. Its keeper is a lonely old woman with a green thumb who seems harmless enough to the uninitiated. When a vagrant takes shelter in this garden, however, he learns the unspeakably evil source of her success with all things green and growing.Be careful when you wish. Homeless and wandering through a neglectful city, he ultimately finds his place in this world, tending its garden of evil.

Serenity is willing to do anything to find her sister, the twin Force has raised in the Temple since birth. But when Sky refuses to help, Serenity has no choice but to go to Luc—whose plan is to use Serenity as bait. Together, they embark to Force’s island vacation spot—the Garden, an exotic Museum that displays girls as Flowers. When their plan takes a turn for the worse, Jade, the Garden Director, captures Luc and Serenity. With both their lives in the balance, Serenity has no choice but to bow to Jade, who may be even more ruthless and determined than Luc. Serenity will become the Skeleton Flower. The Jewel by Amy Ewing meets Tricks by Ellen Hopkins in this gritty Young Adult Dystopian that tells of a fear-inducing future where the world of sex trafficking has become a social norm and where woman aren't treated as humans and are no safer than they were than they were in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Without Mom, there are no more bedtime stories, no more answers carried on the wind, and no more magic gardens. Evie doesn't believe in magic now. After all, if magic were real, her mom would still be alive. But when Evie moves to Beaumont, New York, where her father has bought a withered apple orchard that the townspeople whisper is cursed, she learns about a lost girl, receives a mysterious seed, and meets a boy who claims to be dead. Before long, Evie finds herself in the middle of a fairy tale. And this one is real.

Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore--if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But odd things happen in Beaumont. Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a mysterious seed as an eleventh-birthday gift. Once planted, the seed grows into a tree overnight, but only Evie and the dead boy can see it--or go where it leads. The Garden of Eve mixes spine-tingling chills with a deeply resonating story that beautifully explores grief, healing, and growth.

Time and again, the children from Knight’s Castle have longed for another magic adventure. But you can’t find magic just anywhere. It doesn’t grow like grass. It requires the right place and the right time . . . Or thyme, as the case may be. At Mrs. Whiton’s house, magic grows as wild as the banks of thyme in the garden. Growing there is olden time, future time, and common time. Or so says the Natterjack, the toadlike creature who accompanies the children on a series of hilarious, always unpredictable adventures. “Anything can happen,” the Natterjack says, “when you have all the time in the world.”

Grandfather's friend, Mr. Yee, has broken his arm and can't tend to his beloved vegetable plot in the community garden. The Alden children gladly offer their services to help him with his prize-winning veggies. But they soon learn something mysterious is afoot at the community garden. Vegetables go missing, and it appears someone is intentionally vandalizing the garden plots. Luckily for the local community gardeners, the Boxcar Children are on the case!

Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore--if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But odd things happen in Beaumont. Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a mysterious seed as an eleventh-birthday gift. Once planted, the seed grows into a tree overnight, but only Evie and the dead boy can see it--or go where it leads.

Allergic to the sun, Jess sets out to explore the world she longs to be a part of by night. But what she discovers is a beautiful impossibility: a magical garden wrought of ice... Jess’s imagination has always been her best friend. She’s trained it to feel as real as it possibly can, especially in the stories she writes for Davie - the young boy in a coma who is her only friend. But nothing is as real as the world she’ll find. One night, tired of peeking at the other children beyond her curtained house, she sneaks out to explore the empty playground she’s longed to visit. Beyond, she discovers a garden made entirely of ice. This is her place: a Narnia with flying elephant mice, ice apples with shining golf liquid inside. But Jess soon discovers that she’s not alone. And her presence there could be destroying its very existence.