Jonathan Stroud

"Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"--

"Albert and Scarlett are a formidable pair. With his ability to read minds and her way with a weapon, no bank can keep them out and no jail can keep them in. But their notoriety may have spread a bit too far. Now old enemies from Scarlett's past and a sinister new threat from Albert's world are boxing them in--and holding their friends hostage. To win their freedom, the outlaws Scarlett and Browne are charged with pulling off an impossible mission....

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Seventeen-year-old Nathaniel has risen to a position of importance in the British government with the help of Bartimaeus, a djinni he summoned to help him root out rebels, but with Bartimaeus' essence weakening due to having spent too long in the real world, he and Nathaniel are forced to team up with rival Kitty Jones to save the country from demons.

Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being...

Thirteen-year-old Michael McIntyre must choose between his family and his new powers when an imprisoned dragon awakes and releases an evil long held in slumber.

After the drowning death of her best friend, Max, Charlie begins to have vivid dreams of Max in a strange land, but when she wakes up with cuts and bruises, she realizes that her dreams are real and sets out to find Max.