Books with title The Midnight Fox

Winner of the Gold 2017 eLit Children’s Book Award!Ages: 9-Adult | Grade Level: 4th and upSomewhere deep in the woods is a mysterious place, guarded by stone dragons, and hidden by a dark force… The town of Davenport is cursed with eternal night, and monstrous citizens roam its streets. Scrawny Wyatt Dumont has never heard of Davenport, and he doesn’t know that monsters actually exist—yet, he’s moving there with his bubbly mother and gloomy, emo sister. Wyatt now finds himself in the middle of a dangerous mystery with heaps of hilarious characters, page-turning thrills, and an unforgettable twist.

War has come to the worlds of Humans. The rich planet of Tau-Rietzke, however, is far from Earth and the Mercenary Guild’s invasion, and its alien-registered mercenary companies are a safe haven for humans on the run. Organizations like the Midnight Sun Free Company.Having just completed another successful mission and taken possession of three Raknars, it was party time for Saisho Branco and the personnel of the Midnight Sun, and they were enjoying a little down time…until the war spilled over into their corner of the galaxy and two competing mercenary organizations showed up to steal the Raknars.But no one takes the company owner’s toys, and Gloriana has given the Midnight Sun a new mission—return the Raknars to her at all cost…or don’t return at all. This is the hardest mission the Midnight Sun has ever taken, and it will test not only the military prowess of the company, but also its members’ loyalties as well. When everyone is against you, and your race calls you to war, do you heed the call or continue to trust your shadowy employer? Outnumbered and outgunned, the Midnight Sun must decide whether to fight or to give up the Raknars and save their lives. Little do they know, it’s a decision which will impact the war being fought hundreds of light years away!

Who wants to spend the summer on a stupid farm? Tom suredoesn't! But he has to stay with his aunt and uncle while his parents are away. The farm is boring, just as Tom knew it would be-until he sees the fox. She is wild and graceful, black as midnight. Tom spends all his time in the woods, watching for her, even tracking down her den. But whe she steals Aunt Millie's turkey, Uncle Fred vows to kill the fox. And he cages her little cub to lure the fox to her death. Now it is up to Tom. Can he save the beautiful fox and her cub-before his uncle kills them???

It's been two months since Belladonna Johnson discovered she was the Spellbinder, and she's full of questions about her powers. When a ghost finds Belladonna and her classmate, Steve, and gives them a mysterious map, the friends don't know if they should be looking for or hiding from the one person who holds the answers to Belladonna's powers: the Queen of the Abyss. Throw into the mix that Belladonna's parents, who are ghosts, have disappeared and that her brand-new and maybe even sinister foster family seems to know more than they'll let on, and you have a sequel made of high adventure and intrigue, seasoned with affecting characters and topped with a dollop of wit.

A brilliantly told magical story that questions what it means to be free.World War II, Eastern Europe: Tomas and his younger brother, Andrej, have fled their Romany encampment which has been besieged by the Germans; they carry Wilma, their baby sister, in a sack. In an abandoned, bombed-out town, the children discover a zoo. In it are a wolf and an eagle, a monkey, bear, lioness, seal, chamois and llama. The animals tell their stories to the children as they try to begin to understand what has become of their lives and, when they try to figure out a way to release the animals, what it means to be free.