Amber and Clay author-Leah Thomas and everyone knows it's the

and everyone knows it's the youngest sister who goes off

Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father

the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Central Mexico's mountains

and now they’re on the brink of a new existence—a country at peace

watching the other kids take their turns

Amber and Clay author-Leah Thomas and everyone knows it's theWelcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, ringed by a restless sea, live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he