What's the secret hiding in Maddie's sock drawer, and why is Kitty so desperate to find out? Meet Al &amp; Sal, two curious flying squirrels who find more adventure than they expect when they Al ventures inside an open window. 
The Secret Drawer was inspired when a real life flying squirrel found his way into author, Nancy Gee's bedroom and hid in her sock drawer. The adventure began when her cat Odis refused to budge from the front of the dresser for two long days! Readers of all ages will enjoy this charming real life story and also learn that kindness to animals is returned to them in many unexpected ways.

The Secret Drawer

Children's Books

Gee, Nancy

Animals

MacKenzie Press

Flying Squirrels, Al and Sal, introduced in The Secret Drawer, decide to return home with their friends to share their special news with Maddie and Kitty. Along the way, Sal becomes dangerously trapped and determines that only Kitty can come to her rescue. Written in rhyme, the story ends on a happy note when good news is announced.

The Secret Path

Maddie and Kitty love to go and read books to the children at the local library. One day Al, Sal, and all their animal friends decide to follow and watch. They notice that Dewey, the library dog, slips into a secret room. When all the children follow Dewey, Maddie and Kitty have no one left to read to! Curious, Al, Sal and their pals set out to learn what is happening in THE SECRET ROOM! 
The Secret Room was inspired by the real life Reading Dogs who do wonderful work in libraries all around America, helping children to develop a confidence and love of reading. Nancy Gee was delighted to discover reading dogs at work in her own local libraries while she was doing readings for her first two books, The Secret Drawer and The Secret Path, and the idea for The Secret Room was born!

The Secret Room

A British Fusilier In Revolutionary Boston

Originally published in 1926. British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston- Diary of Lieutenant FREDERICK. MACKENZIE by ALLEN FRENCH. Text extracted from opening pages of book: INTRODUCTION: IN much of the re-writing of American History which has been so general in the past few years, the main effort has been to penetrate the tradition which so heavily overlays it and by the use of con temporary documents to reach the actual facts. That this effort is wholesome, few will deny , nor can any harm come from knowing the truth about our ancestors. This would be reason enough for publishing any Revolutionary diary, but the one herewith presented, written in Boston in 1775 by Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie, a British officer, has its own intrinsic value. Until now the only portion of it printed was a part of the narra tive of a single day, which has long been the standard account of Lord Percys expedition to Lexington on the eigth of April, 1775. No writer upon that first day of our Revolution but has drawn heavily upon this narrative. Yet, buried in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society ( for March, 1896), it has not been easily accessible to the general reader, nor in convenient form for one assembling a library of Revolutionary Americana. In writing my Day of Lexington and Concord two or more years ago, I depended greatly upon this narrative, and finding it of the highest value, wished to discover the remainder. The extract had been communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Mrs. Frances Rose-Troup, an American married in England, but when at length I managed to get word from her, I found that she had lost track of the original diary and believed it de stroyed. As it was my plan to visit England in the summer of I wrote in advance to the Literary Supplement of the London Times, stating the object of my search. By good fortune a copy containing my letter came under the eyes of a descendant of the original writer, and on landing in England I was greeted by a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Mackenzie saying that the ancestral diary was in his possession and at my service. Of his kindness and interest in my work then and ever since I can speak only in terms of gratitude and appreciation. I had hoped that the diary would contain accounts of events of the siege of Boston, and particularly of the Battle of Bunker Hill, equal in value to the section which describes the events of the iyth of April. Unluckily the volume containing this information has been lost. A family memorandum of the year 1858 mentions the journals as covering the period from 1748 to ijgi. All have hen lost but eight volumes , including all those previous to 1775. Our volume begins with January of that year and ends with thejOth of April following. The next volume begins with the campaign which culminated in the capture of New York in 1776, so that almost the whole period of the siege of Boston is lacking. There is no record or memory of when the lost volumes left the Mackenzie family, and one can only hope that they will some day be found. Fortunately there still exists a single letter from the writer of the diary, written to his parents in 1773, describing his voyage to America in a troop ship. That letter, with the Boston section of the diary, is incor porated in the present volume. The general facts in regard to Frederick Mackenzie, the diarist, and his family, compiled from the Army Lists and from informa tion communicated to me by his great-grandson, are as follows.

A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston

History

MacKenzie, Frederick

Americas

Ivy Judinson is so tired of her life. With a newly-broken friendship, a plummeting GPA, and mean girls seemingly around every corner, freshman year is pretty much a bust. Her only refuge these days is playing ESCAPE THE WAR on her PC, so when Ivy finds an in-game purchase that claims to let her "live in the game," she clicks. What she doesn't expect is to get literally sucked into the game, trapped as a playable character. And the game? It's an extremely dangerous, war-torn shooter, and if Ivy is going to get out, she'll first have to survive.

Escape the War

Teen & Young Adult

Priyanka Nambiar

Literature & Fiction

Review\nA teenage girl is transported to a dangerous realm and must learn to trust others if she and her friends have any chance of survival. The protagonist Amber is a thirteen-year-old girl just trying to keep up her grades and survive the daily Shadow Hour that has taken over her world. Amber has lived with her aunt since the strange disappearance of her parents and the loss of her memories. Left alone with her aunt, trying to move on from the mystery of her parents' disappearance, and wary of the threat that the Shadow Hour poses to her and everyone around her, Amber becomes fiercely independent and motivated though reluctant to reach out to others or accept help. Only when Amber is swept into another dimension and forced to work with an unlikely group of friends does she begin to open up and realise that she doesn't need to face the world alone. In this Hunger Games-like fantasy adventure novel, Amber is banished from the dangerous near future of her own reality to another realm known as the Shadow Realm. There she must survive a series of deadly obstacles in order to save not only herself and her friends, but humanity as well. --From the Back Cover\nA teenage girl is transported to a dangerous realm and must learn to trust others if she and her friends have any chance of survival. The protagonist Amber is a thirteen-year-old girl just trying to keep up her grades and survive the daily Shadow Hour that has taken over her world. Amber has lived with her aunt since the strange disappearance of her parents and the loss of her memories. Left alone with her aunt, trying to move on from the mystery of her parents' disappearance, and wary of the threat that the Shadow Hour poses to her and everyone around her, Amber becomes fiercely independent and motivated though reluctant to reach out to others or accept help. Only when Amber is swept into another dimension and forced to work with an unlikely group of friends does she begin to open up and realise that she doesn't need to face the world alone. In this Hunger Games-like fantasy adventure novel, Amber is banished from the dangerous near future of her own reality to another realm known as the Shadow Realm. There she must survive a series of deadly obstacles in order to save not only herself and her friends, but humanity as well.\nFrom the Back Cover\nA teenage girl is transported to a dangerous realm and must learn to trust others if she and her friends have any chance of survival. The protagonist Amber is a thirteen-year-old girl just trying to keep up her grades and survive the daily Shadow Hour that has taken over her world. Amber has lived with her aunt since the strange disappearance of her parents and the loss of her memories. Left alone with her aunt, trying to move on from the mystery of her parents' disappearance, and wary of the threat that the Shadow Hour poses to her and everyone around her, Amber becomes fiercely independent and motivated though reluctant to reach out to others or accept help. Only when Amber is swept into another dimension and forced to work with an unlikely group of friends does she begin to open up and realise that she doesn't need to face the world alone.\nIn this Hunger Games-like fantasy adventure novel, Amber is banished from the dangerous near future of her own reality to another realm known as the Shadow Realm. There she must survive a series of deadly obstacles in order to save not only herself and her friends, but humanity as well.

The Shadow Hour

Anya Costello

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