New Releases by Carol Matas

About to be married in Coren''s homeland of Andilla, Coren and Leonora discover that before the wedding can proceed they must find out why the Andillan people have lost their special powers and why Leonora is having nightmares about the evil Hevak.

The Telling chronicles one dramatic summer in the lives of three sisters - aged 12, 14 and 17 - as recounted by them in late night tell-alls. (1998)

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.

What if one day, you woke up psychic? What if, suddenly, you could see and know things about your friends and family that you probably shouldn''t? These are the difficulties faced by fifteen-year old Jade when her recovery from life-threatening meningitis takes a surprising twist. (1997)

Follows the adventures of two royal teenagers who possess extraordinary mental powers.

Rose''s simple life is shattered when her mother, who is a midwife and healer to half the families in town, is turned over to the authorities denounced as a witch.

History comes alive in this accurate, moving novel, which explores betrayal, faith, and forgiveness as two Russian Jewish boys who are sworn enemies join forces to flee the Czar''s army.

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement.