Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

A collection of short pieces about lights at night, including "Candles," "Fireplaces," and "Stars."

Each night before going to bed, Melinda counts the lights, from one seashell on the nursery wall to a million twinkling stars.

"When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a school in their flying museum, a student helps them by explaining how common concepts related to light, like refraction, magnification, and reflection, and objects, like cameras and televisions, work"--

"Nour loves the luminous glow she was born with, but it's only when it starts to dim that she discovers the true power of her brilliant light. Nour has a superpower: she glows. Her light shines so bright, she feels like a star in the night sky. But when kids at school notice her glow, they're not impressed. If she had a real superpower, they say, she could fly or turn invisible. So Nour stops feeling special. And as her light dims, her world darkens...until...

Orphaned twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra chases a thieving boy into a magician's realm of darkness.

Children discover the many sources of light in the world--from the sun to the smile on a friend's face.

"Before Hisako Saski is even born, her parents make a deal on her behalf. In exchange for a first-class education and a boost out of poverty, Hisako will marry Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and self-styled musician who works the trade lanes aboard his family's sub-light starship, the Hajj. Hisako is not happy when she finds out about the plan. She has little interest in the broken branch of physics the deal requires her to study, and is not...

In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land,...

Dick Grayson, bitter from a falling-out with Batman, emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes including Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy.