When Louise takes her dog Barney for a walk in the local forest in Kate Campbell’s debut YA novel the Whisper of Calaresp, little does she know that her life will never be the same again. An encounter with an old enemy takes her back to her long-forgotten homeland of Calaresp, where she is a deposed princess, and where its despotic leader Brisheit seeks to end her life. Relying on her own skills and the powers of a secret and mystical pendant known only as The Whisper, she must try to overthrow Brisheit and win her land back. But Brisheit has no intention of relinquishing his position easily. After pushing a school bully into a lake, Pendragon (Pen) Devon is sent to stay with his uncle in a remote Scottish castle, the Honour’s Rest of Judith Crow’s new YA novel.. Even though Pen was sitting in the library at the time. Turns out this was the first example of The Rite appearing in Pen. Now he must learn to control the strange kind of magic under the tutelage of his Uncle Napier, who is the Rendelf or overseer of The Rite in all of the United Kingdom. But Napier has gathered many enemies over the years, enemies who would be delighted to use Pen against him. In the world of S.K. Marlay’s The Stone Keep, the Channellers rule Domhain with brutal force. Sapping magic from others so that the crops might grow, the cities might prosper, and the dragons might be held at bay, Channellers are as revered as they are feared. But in young Eadha, a more ancient power is growing, and as the world and its cruelties rush toward Eadha and Ionain, the boy she has always loved, she faces a terrible choice: make a lie of Ionain’s life or watch him lose everything.
