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The Changeover, by Margaret Mahy

A schoolgirl's life is turned upside down when she has to rouse the occult powers that are her birthright to save her brother from a supernatural threat. Intense and subtle, The Changeover is as sleek as a stretching cat. Read the full review by Sara Lipowitz.

Against a backdrop of real-life incidents, Child of the Light focuses on the unusual friendships among three children during the rise of Nazi Germany. Read the full review by Sara Lipowitz.

I love a man who can speak forsoothly. Edghill's characters are witty, smart, and stay in parlance. The action continues at the same breakneck pace as the second book, and a lot of the romantic conflict reaches fever-pitch and/or resolution. Read the full review by Becky Parkhurst.

This trilogy takes place on Erna, a planet colonized as a last resort due to the natural magic force called the fae. Erna is doomed to be taken over by a demon unless Damien, the goody-two-shoes priest, and Gerald Tarrant, the planet's biggest bad guy, can figure out how to stop the enslavement of the human race. Read the full review by Michaela Gauthier.

Competitions talks so much about how its characters think and feel that they never get a chance to think and feel much of anything. It talks so much about what they're doing that they never do much. And it talks so much about the motives of its villains that they are rendered totally devoid of interest. Read the full review by Sara Lipowitz.

Convergence, a story about five people with magical elemental powers who must prove that they're the best or die, is not particularly remarkable. Just call it Mercedes Lackey Lite^TM. Read the full review by Sara Lipowitz.

A Crown of Swords, while tighter and better-written than Lord of Chaos, reads much like a wrapping-up volume to that previous story. Read the full review by Sara Lipowitz.

Elfland, as they say, is always duller than Poughkeepsie. Not this place. Rosemary Edghill keeps the cynical edge that made the previous book in this series successful. Read the full review by Becky Parkhurst.