Slayer author-Joshua David Stein Promotional poster for the 2008

Promotional poster for the 2008 publication of Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter

to even more complicated decisions

NY: Clarion Books [2006]

and a whole host of impressive machines and vehicles hard at work

His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations

Slayer author-Joshua David Stein Promotional poster for the 2008Into every generation a Slayer is born Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. Its hard to be when you grow up at the Watchers Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayersgirls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Ninas mother is a prominent member of the Watchers Council, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle.