Matthew Dow Smith

When these tweens team up, nothing can stop them! Ricki Jones is your average middle-grader. Her fellow-orphan-turned-adopted-brother Ross is, too. The seven mystical monks training them to protect the Earth from dark supernatural forces are pretty standard adults—they want nothing more than a little peace over summer vacation and all their prior attempts to get the kids out of town...

Magic and mayhem collide in this fantastical new series! For fans of black cats and dark wizards! Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost introduces readers to Amelia Shadows, who has never had what you might call a "normal" childhood. For one thing, her dad's the most powerful dark magician in the world. And for another, she's spent her entire...

A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore. Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic and princesses who defeated dragons. However, now that she’s eighteen and facing a future stuck behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop, she’s starting to wonder...

Magic and mayhem collide in the second volume of this fantastical new series! When your father is a powerful dark magician, you end up with a lot of interesting and dangerous things around the house — souvenirs of his many magical exploits, trophies of his many battles, even a magical prisoner or two. But Amelia Shadows’s father isn’t just any...

Magic and mayhem collide in the second volume of this fantastical new series! When your father is a powerful dark magician, you end up with a lot of interesting and dangerous things around the house — souvenirs of his many magical exploits, trophies of his many battles, even a magical prisoner or two. But Amelia Shadows's father isn’t just any...