THUNDERSTORM AND THE ELEMENTALS

Book One: The Secret of Shadow, by TJ Silver

Charbroiling a cheerleader, twisting a tornado in history class, darting head-on into a Shadow-wing dragon named Drakyus...it wasn't exactly how Thunderstorm Valdar had pictured his first day at his new school, Paracelsus Academy. Thunder and his family had just relocated from Chicago to Silver Oak, a move he wasn't thrilled about. Up until that fateful day, Thunder had been an ordinary - though socially awkward - teenager who didn't know that his uneventful life was about to change forever.

Thunder is quickly initiated into a world of mages who can control fire, air, water, and earth - and who are aided and protected by gryphons, pegasai, seadrakens, naiads, and dragons.

Just when Thunder thinks his day couldn't get any more craptacular, a dark socerer kidnaps his parents and Drakyus whisks Thunder and his new mage friends, Angel and Darius, off on a wild adventure to save them. 

Thunderstorm and his friends are forced to embark on a dangerous quest to find the seadraken Kanalia - the only one who can help them rescue Thunder's parents and avoid an evil trap. As they travel to the ends of the earth, battling trolls, naga, and giant sea creatures, they uncover truths about themselves as the battles between good and evil, light and shadow, threatens their mage world.

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Chapter One: Cheerleader on Fire

THE CHRONICLES OF TRAYVIAN JAMES

Book One: Dreamworld, by Brian Wood

Trayvian James is just a normal kid. Well, almost. During the day, he floats through his high school life in Colorado as a sarcastic, self-aware loner, simply trying to make it through school without falling asleep or making an idiot out of himself. But at night, when Tray falls asleep, he dreams himself into Havehn, a world filled with magic and wonder, where he is a Warrior Mage, and possibly the most powerful practitioner of magic in the world (hey, it is his dream).

But all is not well in Havehn. An ancient Prophecy looms, and Tray is pretty sure he is at the center of the coming storm (actually, he's quite certain, since it's called the Prophecy of the Dreamer). Just when a beautiful girl named Claire walks into his real life, and Tray finally gets the guts to talk to her, the dominoes of Prophecy start to fall in his dreams. Soon, Tray learns that his worlds may not be as separate as he thinks, and The Darkness could take the only girl he's ever loved.

Dreamworld is the first novel in The Chronicle of Trayvian James and is a story laced with humor, wit, action, and wonder. The only thing more exciting than falling asleep is waking up.

Follow Trayvian and his friends at www.trayvianjames.com 

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THE EMPIRES OF MAGIC

Book One: Firesoul, by Frank LaVoie

For hundreds of years magic has been out of use in the known Empires. That suddenly changes with the onset of a mysterious storm that lays waste to the grand city of Kelmist, capital of the Treynen lands.

Social outcast and part-time pirate, Niema, along with her dedicated first mate, the ever-grim minotaur Sateb, sail toward the city just as the worst begins; they witness the devastating effects upon their untimely arrival. Meanwhile, a Treynen Ranger named Tristan and his unusual companions--a comical, color-changing dragon and a dog of unusual proportions--rush to the West Gates after they see the storm from deep within Panic Wood.

The two unique parties meet in the city, now left without inhabitants and smoldering in a static haze. Together, they search for the cause of the night's events and track the lone survivor through the Eastern Empires. Instead, they find conflict and strife. Far away, Kree, an ambitious court sage, delves into the mysteries of lost magic and finds himself uncontrollably linked to the same man Tristan and the others follow with such driven purpose.

In the midst of it all, the world's only magic resides in a man who can't remember his name, his origins, or anything of his power.

Firesoul takes readers on an adventure through the Eastern Empires as armies fight for unknown causes, magic and evil are born, and unlikely heroes join forces to discover the truth.

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