Zura Johnson

American author and poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), best known for the poetry that attributed to two of his three Pulitzer Prizes, also wrote histories, biographies, novels, and children's stories. Born in Illinois, Sandburg spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina in 1945, where he lived till his death. In the early 1920s Sandburg began writing children's stories for his three daughters, beginning with his "Rootabaga...

For fans of Leigh Bardugo and Disney's "Atlantis" comes a thrilling YA series set in a world of high adventure. Her academy prepared her for battle. But is she ready to fight when danger emerges from the murky forest? The House of Matchsticks is calling … Sixteen-year-old Isaline is under massive pressure. Only alive thanks to Death's intervention when she was a baby, she's too shy to speak up when there's an attempt to steal her mysterious red...

He was supposed to collect the dead. Instead, he rescued a single soul. Now watching her adventure, he's faced with making the ultimate sacrifice. The Collector can't tell how to fix what he's undone. Ever since impulsively saving the baby in the rowboat, the walking bringer of death has spent his days searching for the key to rolling back his misstep. But the greater his fascination with human mortality and the allure of taking just one life-giving...

What would you do if you were kidnapped by alien robots? Ruby Palmer finds herself on an entire planet surrounded by the things she hates the most: robots. Besides taking everything she says way too literally, the robots have problems of their own. A myriad of technical glitches are, on the cosmological scale, quickly destroying them. Ruby has the programming knowledge and skills that matter to them, but can she overcome her fears and find it within...

Someone's hunting the Ungovernable. And they're not going to stop until every one of the crew is dead. When an enemy from ex-smuggler pilot Jez's past reappears, determined to extract revenge, the crew of the Ungovernable have two options: fight, or run. But when a hyperjump gone wrong leaves the Ungovernable crippled, her weapons down and her cloaking disabled, their options become scarce indeed. As they scramble to repair the ship with rapidly-dwindling...