Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.

Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia—have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly, perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends’ pants off.

Compiled and edited by kid-lit madman Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Terrifying Tales is a creepy-fun read (if you’re brave enough, that is). 

“If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "—Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap

"A slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of many books ten times its length."—NPR

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.

“Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters.”

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them—her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.

Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children’s lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.

In this stunning contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family—and change the story.

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Considerado o Livro do Ano de 2017 pelo Washington Post. Para leitores de fantasia, O filho da feiticeira traz a típica jornada do herói. Na pequena aldeia onde vive, Ned já se acostumou com seu apelido: o garoto errado. Nem mesmo seu irmãogêmeo, Tam, mais habilidoso e querido, e a estrela da aldeia, foi capaz de mudar isso. Quando decidem construir uma balsa para encontrar o mar, o plano sai pela culatra e Ned se torna mais que o garoto errado: se torna o único. Agora, ele é visto como um pária. No entanto, em uma reviravolta, ele se transforma no único capaz de impedir que a magia caia nas mãos do ambicioso Rei dos Bandidos. E, para isso, arruma uma insuspeita aliada: Áine, a filha do ladrão. Eles terão de aprender a confiar um no outro se quiserem impedir uma guerra entre dois reinos há muito separados.

Uma fábula sobre aceitação, amor, amadurecimento e o poder da memória. Da autora de O filho da feiticeira, considerado o Livro do Ano pelo Washington Post. Todo ano o povo do Protetorado deixa um bebê como oferenda para a bruxa que vive na floresta, na esperança de que o sacrifício a impeça de aterrorizar sua pequena cidade. Mas Xan, a bruxa da floresta, ao contrário do que eles acreditam, é bondosa. Ela vive em paz com um monstro do pântano muito inteligente e um dragão perfeitamente minúsculo. Todo ano ela resgata o bebê deixado pelos anciãos e o leva em segurança para uma família adotiva em uma das cidades do outro lado da floresta. Durante a longa viagem, quando a comida acaba, Xan alimenta os bebês com luz estelar. Em uma dessas ocasiões, ela acidentalmente oferece a uma menina a luz do luar, dotando-a de uma magia extraordinária. A bruxa então decide criá-la, e a chama de Luna. Conforme o aniversário de 13 anos da menina se aproxima, sua magia começa a aflorar – e pode colocar em perigo ela mesma e todos à sua volta.

Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas.

From the literary heft of Angela Carter to the searing power of Octavia Butler, Sisters of the Revolution gathers daring examples of speculative fiction’s engagement with feminism. Dark, satirical stories such as Eileen Gunn’s “Stable Strategies for Middle Management” and the disturbing horror of James Tiptree Jr.’s “The Screwfly Solution” reveal the charged intensity at work in the field. Including new, emerging voices like Nnedi Okorafor and featuring international contributions from Angelica Gorodischer and many more, Sisters of the Revolution seeks to expand the ideas of both contemporary fiction and feminism to new fronts. Moving from the fantastic to the futuristic, the subtle to the surreal, these stories will provoke thoughts and emotions about feminism like no other book available today.

Contributors include: Angela Carter, Angelica Gorodischer, Anne Richter, Carol Emshwiller, Catherynne M. Valente, Eileen Gunn, Eleanor Arnason, Elizabeth Vonarburg, Hiromi Goto, James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ, Karin Tidbeck, Kelley Eskridge, Kelly Barnhill, Kit Reed, L. Timmel Duchamp, Leena Krohn, Leonora Carrington, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, Pamela Sargent, Pat Murphy, Rachel Swirsky, Rose Lemberg, Susan Palwick, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Vandana Singh.