The Shape Shifter

In the fifth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen abducted by aliens becomes a shape shifter, unrecognizable to everyone, even himself. For nine months, Todd Aldridge was missing. Stories swirled about him throughout his hometown of Metier, Wisconsin. Was he kidnapped? Abducted by aliens? The kids at his junior high school were keen on the alien story. Metier is a UFO hotspot, after all. Until one day, Todd is found alive beside the town reservoir. Everyone wants to know where the thirteen-year-old has been. Only Todd doesn’t remember anything, except for the light that filled the sky moments before he disappeared . . . Now Todd is beginning to wonder what happened. Especially when some of his classmates claim that he is an alien now—like them. Todd isn’t ready to believe them. Until he feels the power surging in his body and his shape beginning to shift. He morphs into a creature that he can only call otherworldly, a creature who will have to fight to survive the danger surrounding him . . .

When 18-year-old Rose arrives in Temnota from the US as an exchange student, she finds the country even more oppressive than she thought. The Secret Service has just imprisoned Libera, a young rebel leader. A shape-shifter, she can escape by taking any form, so they’ve locked her away in a cell impenetrable to her kind, and are about to execute her. Rose teams up with her classmate, Gavrilo, the prince of all shape-shifters, to find a way to unlock Libera’s cell to save her. According to a legend, such a way existed a long time ago. Rose takes Gavrilo back to the past to find it. A Secret Service Major, an evil genius of shifters, stands in their way. Rose and Gavrilo fall for each other, but she has a disease that prevents them from touching. Will they beat the death clock and save the country and their love?

For centuries, shamanic men and women have engaged in shapeshifting rituals - the powerful process of taking on the physical or psychological aspect of an animal to access its strength and perceptions. The imagery of shifting between human and nonhuman form has strongly pervaded folklore, myth, legend, and superstition - from the selkie (or seal shifter) of Celtic myth to bear-human love matches in Native American folklore. In chapters on the buffalo, cat, bird, bear, dragon, frog, and more, Michele Jamal explores the qualities associated with various shapeshifter forms. In her own lyrical style, she retells myths from around the world, and ends each chapter with a poetic and sensual visualization that takes the reader into the heart of each animal's power. Deerdancer shows how to use shapeshifting ritual to find direction, strength, and insight - it will forever transform the way one views other living creatures and the self.

"Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him."--Source other than the Library of Congress.

Rachel Schuyler was a normal girl with an isolated life in her senior year of high school. Her only chance at making a new friend arrives when Luke Frasier entered the school. She became friendly with him and her real personality begins to emerge. But when she sees familiar cars stalking her at her return from school, she starts to get suspicions. And when strange things start to happen, Rachel can only wonder what or who is causing these occurances.

National bestselling author Sharon Shinn presents a passionate, heart-wrenching story of secrets and the lengths to which we’ll go to protect those we love... For her entire life, Melanie Landon has hidden the fact that her half sister, Ann, is a shape-shifter, determined to protect her from a world that simply wouldn’t understand. When a man shows up asking about Ann—who has been missing for months—Melanie fears the worst, and with good reason. Freelance writer Brody Westerbrook knows about the existence of shape-shifters and intends to include Ann in the book he’s writing. While Melanie is immediately drawn to the stranger, she knows better than to trust him, and she denies his claim. But when Ann finally reappears, looking thin and sick, Melanie realizes exposure is the least of their worries. Protecting her sister has always been an enormous part of Melanie’s life, but as Ann’s health rapidly deteriorates, Melanie must come to grips with the fact that saving her may mean letting go…

Adventure, conspiracy and shapeshifting - X-Men meets Alex Rider.Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy . . . until something extraordinary happens. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox! He is offered a place at a secret government school where he can develop, and learn to control, his powers. But if Dax accepts, on no account can hetell anybody.Dax jumps at the chance of getting away from his unhappy home. But before long he begins to wonder who exactly is behind the school, and what they want from the pupils there. Suddenly Dax's fox senses are on high alert . . .