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Synopsis: Elvis McGraw wants to go out with a bang. He wants to deliver a senior prank that will go down in history. He recruits two of his fellow classmates, Jose Hernandez and Lamont Sheen, to assist him with his plan. When Thomas Jefferson High School, of Houston, Texas, their school, is nominated for the title of All American School, the trio sees an opening to leave their mark.
The governor and judges in the All American School competition visit the school but at every turn they encounter another prank or practical joke. The biggest prank they pull comes into play when their chemistry experiment accidentally produces a potion that can change personalities. They turn the quietest student in the class to a loud mouthed ghetto thug. They turn the National Honor Society representative to an intelligence challenged valley girl. They turn the class preppie president into a redneck, and the school’s macho jock into a flamboyant gay male.
During the visit, a number of mice run past the governor and a student is locked in the bathroom the governor uses. Students are caught playing games, listening to music, and browsing the internet (forbidden by school policy), while their football coach-teacher plots game strategy. The governor’s wife is dowsed with water and almost run over by rampaging pigs, a restroom toilet floods, a fire burns on the football field, and the governor’s limo is dented by a flying football. Nothing seems to go right for the school during the tour.
The series of pranks and unfortunate incidents may cost Principal Earl
Winston his job. The media is out to get him. He relentlessly tries to find the guilty party and still defends the school when it’s fails to be selected as an All American School.
Jose’s family battles discrimination as Mexican immigrants. Lamont develops into the school track star and a miracle during his last race allows the school to win the state title. Elvis is the best musician in the school, headed for stardom. His band, the Texas Redneck Rockers, becomes one of the biggest bands in the state. The threesome constantly faces the issues of today’s teens from girls, cars, schoolwork, and their own outside interests.
The story follows the school from September through graduation. Winston is always searching for the guilty parties. For graduation, Winston agrees to a free concert by the Texas Redneck Rollers after the ceremony if Elvis tells him who is responsible for the pranks. As the students leave the graduation ceremony a pie fight takes place. Nobody claims that prank.
In the end, Elvis, now a worldwide music superstar, comes back to his 10 year class reunion and gives Winston a tour of the pranks and how they were done, fulfilling his promise. Winston proclaims Elvis the king of pranks in his forty years of education, and tells him, “Things will never be the same since Elvis has left the building.”
The governor and judges in the All American School competition visit the school but at every turn they encounter another prank or practical joke. The biggest prank they pull comes into play when their chemistry experiment accidentally produces a potion that can change personalities. They turn the quietest student in the class to a loud mouthed ghetto thug. They turn the National Honor Society representative to an intelligence challenged valley girl. They turn the class preppie president into a redneck, and the school’s macho jock into a flamboyant gay male.
During the visit, a number of mice run past the governor and a student is locked in the bathroom the governor uses. Students are caught playing games, listening to music, and browsing the internet (forbidden by school policy), while their football coach-teacher plots game strategy. The governor’s wife is dowsed with water and almost run over by rampaging pigs, a restroom toilet floods, a fire burns on the football field, and the governor’s limo is dented by a flying football. Nothing seems to go right for the school during the tour.
The series of pranks and unfortunate incidents may cost Principal Earl
Winston his job. The media is out to get him. He relentlessly tries to find the guilty party and still defends the school when it’s fails to be selected as an All American School.
Jose’s family battles discrimination as Mexican immigrants. Lamont develops into the school track star and a miracle during his last race allows the school to win the state title. Elvis is the best musician in the school, headed for stardom. His band, the Texas Redneck Rockers, becomes one of the biggest bands in the state. The threesome constantly faces the issues of today’s teens from girls, cars, schoolwork, and their own outside interests.
The story follows the school from September through graduation. Winston is always searching for the guilty parties. For graduation, Winston agrees to a free concert by the Texas Redneck Rollers after the ceremony if Elvis tells him who is responsible for the pranks. As the students leave the graduation ceremony a pie fight takes place. Nobody claims that prank.
In the end, Elvis, now a worldwide music superstar, comes back to his 10 year class reunion and gives Winston a tour of the pranks and how they were done, fulfilling his promise. Winston proclaims Elvis the king of pranks in his forty years of education, and tells him, “Things will never be the same since Elvis has left the building.”
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Read all three books of the Aspen Brooks Trilogy!
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book #1
Twisted Sisters, Book #2
Spring Breakup, Book #3
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book One~
I, the flawless Aspen Brooks, was born to be Homecoming Queen. I’ve prepped for it like some kids do the SAT. So can someone please tell me why the crown was given to my evil nemesis?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, somebody seems out to get me. Locker vandalism, a slashed tire, and horrendous lipstick graffiti are just a few of the ways someone is trying to get under my blemish-free skin. (And I’m not even going to mention how the biggest geek in school kissed me, and I didn’t hate it.)
But things start getting serious when girls begin disappearing. I can’t be worrying about tiaras or crushing on a geek when the detective on the case is completely clueless. I have to save the day, all while looking fabulous.
****Reviews for Revenge of the Homecoming Queen****
“Meg Cabot better watch her back because Stephanie Hale is giving her a run for her money.”
~Book Divas
“They didn’t write teen books like this when I was in high school- and it’s a darned shame.”
~ FreshFiction.com
“Hale’s narration is strong with laugh-out-loud funny one-liners.”
~The Ya Ya Ya’s
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book #1
Twisted Sisters, Book #2
Spring Breakup, Book #3
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book One~
I, the flawless Aspen Brooks, was born to be Homecoming Queen. I’ve prepped for it like some kids do the SAT. So can someone please tell me why the crown was given to my evil nemesis?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, somebody seems out to get me. Locker vandalism, a slashed tire, and horrendous lipstick graffiti are just a few of the ways someone is trying to get under my blemish-free skin. (And I’m not even going to mention how the biggest geek in school kissed me, and I didn’t hate it.)
But things start getting serious when girls begin disappearing. I can’t be worrying about tiaras or crushing on a geek when the detective on the case is completely clueless. I have to save the day, all while looking fabulous.
****Reviews for Revenge of the Homecoming Queen****
“Meg Cabot better watch her back because Stephanie Hale is giving her a run for her money.”
~Book Divas
“They didn’t write teen books like this when I was in high school- and it’s a darned shame.”
~ FreshFiction.com
“Hale’s narration is strong with laugh-out-loud funny one-liners.”
~The Ya Ya Ya’s
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: "You know how they say you can't climb out of a hole till you hit bottom?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm trying to find the bottom."
At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading tells, he's made a fortune -- and along the way, he's upset some of the most notorious Texas holdem players in Las Vegas, including Artie Kingston, who had already lost his nightclub to Denn. But now Denn's luck has run out and he's just about broke. His only chance is a million-dollar, winner-take-all tournament at Artie's new casino, but Denn can't play unless he comes up with the $10,000 entry fee. Denn's future all comes down to one hand of poker.
National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman introduced Denn Doyle in No Limit, of which School Library Journal said, "Fast paced and powerfully delivered...as taut and suspenseful as a high-stakes game." Here he deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world of poker.
"Yeah?"
"I'm trying to find the bottom."
At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading tells, he's made a fortune -- and along the way, he's upset some of the most notorious Texas holdem players in Las Vegas, including Artie Kingston, who had already lost his nightclub to Denn. But now Denn's luck has run out and he's just about broke. His only chance is a million-dollar, winner-take-all tournament at Artie's new casino, but Denn can't play unless he comes up with the $10,000 entry fee. Denn's future all comes down to one hand of poker.
National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman introduced Denn Doyle in No Limit, of which School Library Journal said, "Fast paced and powerfully delivered...as taut and suspenseful as a high-stakes game." Here he deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world of poker.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway-to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. Between trips to the Met and shopping at Bendel's, the girls are living the A-List life on Anna's home turf. But their trip isn't exactly a vacation. Sam is here to spy on Eduardo and decode his recent strange behavior. Will what she discovers send her hopping on the next private jet back to Beverly Hills? And who is the beautiful stranger who appears on Anna's Upper East Side doorstep? Anna begins to wonder whether she wants to head back west again-especially since Ben seems to have moved on . . . with someone who isn't a stranger at all. When it comes to the A-List, there's drama coast to coast.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: HARPER’S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction.
Soon she’s living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat with a group of kids from all over the country. At the site, she works alongside Teddy, the son of the family for whom they are building the house. Their partnership turns into a summer romance, complete with power tools. Learning to trust and love Teddy isn’t easy for Harper, but it’s the first step toward finding her way back home.
From the Hardcover edition.
Soon she’s living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat with a group of kids from all over the country. At the site, she works alongside Teddy, the son of the family for whom they are building the house. Their partnership turns into a summer romance, complete with power tools. Learning to trust and love Teddy isn’t easy for Harper, but it’s the first step toward finding her way back home.
From the Hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: For young and/or reluctant readers who love Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Chase Cooper, this frighteningly funny mix of Ghostbusters and Monsters Inc. is the perfect blend of humor, horror, mystery, and suspense.
Will Allen may be one of the smallest boys at Ashford Middle School, but he is also one of the smartest. But cleverness alone isn't enough to help him when monsters infest his room!
Together with his friend Jeannine Fitsimmons, Will searches fruitlessly for help, until a strange business card appears, instructing them how to summon Bigelow Hawkins, the Great Monster Detective. But even with Bigelow's help, along with the use of his very special monster-fighting instruments, the RevealeR and the MonsterScope, can Will learn how to conquer his monsters and reveal the secret of the dreaded HIDDEN BEAST before it's too late?
Will Allen may be one of the smallest boys at Ashford Middle School, but he is also one of the smartest. But cleverness alone isn't enough to help him when monsters infest his room!
Together with his friend Jeannine Fitsimmons, Will searches fruitlessly for help, until a strange business card appears, instructing them how to summon Bigelow Hawkins, the Great Monster Detective. But even with Bigelow's help, along with the use of his very special monster-fighting instruments, the RevealeR and the MonsterScope, can Will learn how to conquer his monsters and reveal the secret of the dreaded HIDDEN BEAST before it's too late?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Publisher’s Weekly STARRED Review – “Michael awakens a passion in Leesie that she doesn’t know she possesses in this moving novel.”
Amazon Best Sellers Top 100 Teen Death & Dying Books
“Passion, pace . . . and a perfect finish.” – Boston Globe-Horn Book Winner, Tim Wynne-Jones (Blink and Caution)
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Sexy, scuba diver Michael Walden cuts school and hitches along on his parents half-priced hurricane season scuba trip to escape witnessing a creepy jock paw at his ex. Breaking up wasn’t Michael’s idea.
When the scuba diving turns tragic, the only thing left back in Phoenix is a house too full of memories and the girl who broke his heart, so he washes up at his Gram’s house in “Teacup,” Washington. He’s trapped in his dead dad’s old bedroom, fighting the hurricane every time his eyes close.
Michael surfaces in BYU-bound, good girl, Leesie Hunt’s physics class, mesmerized by her shining, sun-bleached, blonde hair.
Leesie, nicknamed “The Mormon Ice Queen,” pours her soul into dreams and poems in her “Most Private Chapbook.” Her lonely heart yearns to make Michael’s whole again. He needs her in a way no one ever has before.
When she peeks out from behind her physics book to find Michael’s eyes drowning in hers, Leesie’s own hurricane season begins. Michael sweeps her into deep water where the passion they share threatens to destroy everything Leesie ever wanted to be.
“The world spins, the stars shift,
And I can’t see anything except his smoky
Gray eyes gazing into mine.
You scare me, whispers
from my mouth across his.
Good, he breathes into me.
I need you to save me.”
Leesie knows her faith can rescue Michael, but as her love for him grows deeper and their relationship more stormy, Leesie isn’t sure who is doing the saving anymore.
Readers who love tearjerkers like John Green’s popular teen romance, The Fault in our Stars and Nicholas Sparks’s books will be swept away by award-winning novelist, Angela Morrison’s breathtaking YA contemporary romance series of tragedy, love, and redemption written in a unique collage of poetry, dive log entries, and chat transcripts.
Michael and Leesie’s story continues in Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer.
Reviews
"One of the most breathtaking and romantic-to-the-point-you-cry books I've ever read." -The Reader
"An amazing story written with a clear, refreshing, creative voice." - Jack Weyland, LDS young adult legend (Charly)
"There are moments of yearning and transcendence that took my breath away." - Susan Fletcher (Alphabet of Dreams)
“Showcases characters’ fervent hopes and desperate needs heading for inevitable collision in its pages.” – Uma Krishnaswami, Children’s Literature
"Morrison's distinctive mix of poetry and modern dialogue bring the subjects of peer pressure, religion, and grief to the forefront in an accessible and dramatic way." - Deseret News
Categories: Teen and Young Adult Novel; Young Adult Contemporary Romance; Popular Teen Romance Series; Scuba Diving Fiction; Tearjerkers in Kindle Store; YA/Teen Literature and Fiction - Difficult Discussions- Death and Dying; LDS Young Adult; LDS Author; Mormon Fiction
Amazon Best Sellers Top 100 Teen Death & Dying Books
“Passion, pace . . . and a perfect finish.” – Boston Globe-Horn Book Winner, Tim Wynne-Jones (Blink and Caution)
Read now FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Sexy, scuba diver Michael Walden cuts school and hitches along on his parents half-priced hurricane season scuba trip to escape witnessing a creepy jock paw at his ex. Breaking up wasn’t Michael’s idea.
When the scuba diving turns tragic, the only thing left back in Phoenix is a house too full of memories and the girl who broke his heart, so he washes up at his Gram’s house in “Teacup,” Washington. He’s trapped in his dead dad’s old bedroom, fighting the hurricane every time his eyes close.
Michael surfaces in BYU-bound, good girl, Leesie Hunt’s physics class, mesmerized by her shining, sun-bleached, blonde hair.
Leesie, nicknamed “The Mormon Ice Queen,” pours her soul into dreams and poems in her “Most Private Chapbook.” Her lonely heart yearns to make Michael’s whole again. He needs her in a way no one ever has before.
When she peeks out from behind her physics book to find Michael’s eyes drowning in hers, Leesie’s own hurricane season begins. Michael sweeps her into deep water where the passion they share threatens to destroy everything Leesie ever wanted to be.
“The world spins, the stars shift,
And I can’t see anything except his smoky
Gray eyes gazing into mine.
You scare me, whispers
from my mouth across his.
Good, he breathes into me.
I need you to save me.”
Leesie knows her faith can rescue Michael, but as her love for him grows deeper and their relationship more stormy, Leesie isn’t sure who is doing the saving anymore.
Readers who love tearjerkers like John Green’s popular teen romance, The Fault in our Stars and Nicholas Sparks’s books will be swept away by award-winning novelist, Angela Morrison’s breathtaking YA contemporary romance series of tragedy, love, and redemption written in a unique collage of poetry, dive log entries, and chat transcripts.
Michael and Leesie’s story continues in Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer.
Reviews
"One of the most breathtaking and romantic-to-the-point-you-cry books I've ever read." -The Reader
"An amazing story written with a clear, refreshing, creative voice." - Jack Weyland, LDS young adult legend (Charly)
"There are moments of yearning and transcendence that took my breath away." - Susan Fletcher (Alphabet of Dreams)
“Showcases characters’ fervent hopes and desperate needs heading for inevitable collision in its pages.” – Uma Krishnaswami, Children’s Literature
"Morrison's distinctive mix of poetry and modern dialogue bring the subjects of peer pressure, religion, and grief to the forefront in an accessible and dramatic way." - Deseret News
Categories: Teen and Young Adult Novel; Young Adult Contemporary Romance; Popular Teen Romance Series; Scuba Diving Fiction; Tearjerkers in Kindle Store; YA/Teen Literature and Fiction - Difficult Discussions- Death and Dying; LDS Young Adult; LDS Author; Mormon Fiction
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Graphic Times is the story of Anthony Logan, a reporter seeking redemption for a blunder that disrupted a sensational murder trial and set the defendant free. His quest takes him to the red-hot, exo-metro landscape of the New West, where the unrepentant killer, a mysterious apparition, marauding teens, an edgy love interest, and the elements test his resolve. The protagonist is a man who throughout his life has viewed the world through the black-and-white columns of his Times, ever eschewing nuance, color, and ambiguity. But in pursuing the scoop that will restore his reputation, he awakens as if from a dream to a vivid and shifting reality that compels him to tell his story with a graphic exuberance. Perhaps it was the Blessed Virgin Mary in a kayak in the Arizona sky, or his spiky sidekick Jettie, or maybe it was the boulder that a wayward gargoyle dropped on his head while he was romancing Sunday Shaw at the bottom of a slot canyon that transformed him. Whatever the source, by the end of his journey, he comes to understand what Thoreau meant by his admonition: “Read not the Times; read the Eternities.”
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael’s disdain—her hippie high school, her friend Jacob, her workaholic mom. Yet for all her attitude and her mind-reading abilities, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She can hear the thoughts of her fellow students, calling her fat and gross. She’s hot for Gusty Peterson, one of the most popular guys in school, but of course, she’s sure he thinks she is disgusting. And she’s still mad at her father, who walked out on them two years ago. Soon, a school project brings her together with Gusty, her father comes home and drops a bombshell, and a friend comes out of the closet, and suddenly she is left doubting that she can read people at all.
Bitingly funny but ultimately poignant and positive, this YA novel is completely on the mark.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: ***A book of women’s fiction.
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author delivers heartfelt family scenes, biting social commentary and a unique look the healing power of forgiveness.
“I recommend this book highly. It is a must read for anyone dealing with coming out to their family, friends, and coworkers.” David Parker, PFLAG
What happens to the perfect family when a teenage boy comes out? That’s the question the Davidson family must deal with. Jamie, the gay son, just wants to live his life out of the shadows. Maggie, mother, teacher and psychologist, will do anything to protect her child, even side with him against her husband. Mike, a loving, giving father can’t reconcile his beloved Catholic Church’s indictment of homosexuality with his deep unconditional love for his boy. And Brian longs for things to go back to the way they were before the jocks at school started to taunt his brother and turn against him. But when tragedy strikes Jamie’s new boyfriend, they all begin to look at their lives differently and work harder to save their perfect family.
Praise for THE PERFECT FAMILY from people in all walks of life:
“After twenty years of educating on gay issues, I found THE PERFECT FAMILY a fresh, soulful and enlightening story.” Scott Fearing, Outreach Director, The Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley
“The book should be in school libraries, psychologists’ offices and on teachers’ book shelves!” Stacy B. Killings, Certified School Psychologist
"It's been a long time since I've read a book that so comprehensively and compellingly speaks to a teenager's coming out experience." Reverend Lee Ann Bryce, United Church of Christ Minister
“Warmly poignant, realistic, dramatic and honestly presented, Shay’s story is an engrossing family saga for the modern world.” RT Book Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author delivers heartfelt family scenes, biting social commentary and a unique look the healing power of forgiveness.
“I recommend this book highly. It is a must read for anyone dealing with coming out to their family, friends, and coworkers.” David Parker, PFLAG
What happens to the perfect family when a teenage boy comes out? That’s the question the Davidson family must deal with. Jamie, the gay son, just wants to live his life out of the shadows. Maggie, mother, teacher and psychologist, will do anything to protect her child, even side with him against her husband. Mike, a loving, giving father can’t reconcile his beloved Catholic Church’s indictment of homosexuality with his deep unconditional love for his boy. And Brian longs for things to go back to the way they were before the jocks at school started to taunt his brother and turn against him. But when tragedy strikes Jamie’s new boyfriend, they all begin to look at their lives differently and work harder to save their perfect family.
Praise for THE PERFECT FAMILY from people in all walks of life:
“After twenty years of educating on gay issues, I found THE PERFECT FAMILY a fresh, soulful and enlightening story.” Scott Fearing, Outreach Director, The Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley
“The book should be in school libraries, psychologists’ offices and on teachers’ book shelves!” Stacy B. Killings, Certified School Psychologist
"It's been a long time since I've read a book that so comprehensively and compellingly speaks to a teenager's coming out experience." Reverend Lee Ann Bryce, United Church of Christ Minister
“Warmly poignant, realistic, dramatic and honestly presented, Shay’s story is an engrossing family saga for the modern world.” RT Book Reviews
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
Piper's world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy the Earth. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom.
Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis. While gods battle for control of the Underworld, Piper's life spirals out of control as she struggles to find the answer to the secret that has been kept from her since birth—her very identity….
An imaginative melding of mythology and dystopia, Solstice is the first YA novel by talented newcomer P. J. Hoover.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Two hundred and fifty years ago, a mythical figure of Scandinavian folklore was born. The Fossegrim spent decades playing his fiddle in a waterfall, rewarding those who bring gifts with musical abilities. But times change. Today he will cross an ocean to follow Julianna to college. As a freshman in Chapel Hill, she has no idea what she’s in for. And that’s just campus life. A world traveler, Jules is street-smart but the wounds from her mother’s unexpected death fester.
And then it begins. When her powers manifest after her 18th birthday, Nicholas makes contact. He bides his time as desperation brings her closer, slowly revealing her family’s secret piece by piece. To Nick’s dismay, Jules falls in love with ambitious Andrew, a collegiate fencer who is always in the right place at the right time. The distraction interferes with her training as time grows short. On Halloween, Nick pushes Andrew too far and Jules runs from them both. On her own again, has Jules learned enough? For Nick isn’t the only creature who crossed the ocean to follow her…
Tenderfoot chronicles one daughter’s coming of age story as she deals with the revelation of her family’s paranormal secret. It is the first of two paranormal fantasy ebooks in The Tenderfoot Set, with a length of 97,000 words/ 350 pages.
And then it begins. When her powers manifest after her 18th birthday, Nicholas makes contact. He bides his time as desperation brings her closer, slowly revealing her family’s secret piece by piece. To Nick’s dismay, Jules falls in love with ambitious Andrew, a collegiate fencer who is always in the right place at the right time. The distraction interferes with her training as time grows short. On Halloween, Nick pushes Andrew too far and Jules runs from them both. On her own again, has Jules learned enough? For Nick isn’t the only creature who crossed the ocean to follow her…
Tenderfoot chronicles one daughter’s coming of age story as she deals with the revelation of her family’s paranormal secret. It is the first of two paranormal fantasy ebooks in The Tenderfoot Set, with a length of 97,000 words/ 350 pages.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: As the Gypsies gather in the ancient village of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer for the annual celebration honoring their patron saint, a mystical convergence of events brings four adolescents together at a haunted house and sets them on a perilous quest to locate a centuries-old manuscript that holds the power to release the devastating force of the Ancient Ones upon the Earth.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Luca are lonely Gypsy kids who travel about Europe with their parents. Forced by their Gypsy father to beg and pick pockets for money, Sarah and Luca find it impossible to earn their father’s approval. Fifteen-year-old Edgar cannot stand his parents (and the feeling is mutual) when the family moves from New Jersey to France so that his parents can live out their dream of being French aristocracy. Fourteen-year-old Aleck’s world is turned upside down when his parents are killed in a car crash and his older sister decides that he would be better off in France with their Aunt and Uncle whose real concern is their own lavish lifestyle.
Beset by their parents and guardians, the four young people must also survive the mercurial activities of a spirit haunting the house that holds clues to the location of the manuscript which is also sought by a secret society bent on locating it for their own purposes. In a frenzied chase that takes them from the ancient villages of Provence through the blood-soaked quarries of Roussillon to the macabre catacombs of Paris, the four must put aside their differences and suspicions to outwit the evil forces who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the ancient book.
"From the Grave:The Prayer" is a classic tale of terror, suspense and intrigue set in southern France, written by the Master of the Macabre, William Castle.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Luca are lonely Gypsy kids who travel about Europe with their parents. Forced by their Gypsy father to beg and pick pockets for money, Sarah and Luca find it impossible to earn their father’s approval. Fifteen-year-old Edgar cannot stand his parents (and the feeling is mutual) when the family moves from New Jersey to France so that his parents can live out their dream of being French aristocracy. Fourteen-year-old Aleck’s world is turned upside down when his parents are killed in a car crash and his older sister decides that he would be better off in France with their Aunt and Uncle whose real concern is their own lavish lifestyle.
Beset by their parents and guardians, the four young people must also survive the mercurial activities of a spirit haunting the house that holds clues to the location of the manuscript which is also sought by a secret society bent on locating it for their own purposes. In a frenzied chase that takes them from the ancient villages of Provence through the blood-soaked quarries of Roussillon to the macabre catacombs of Paris, the four must put aside their differences and suspicions to outwit the evil forces who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the ancient book.
"From the Grave:The Prayer" is a classic tale of terror, suspense and intrigue set in southern France, written by the Master of the Macabre, William Castle.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: After losing everyone she loves, concert pianist Liesl Bower has nowhere to go but to escape into her music. Searching for the peace she usually finds in her concertos and sonatas, Liesl can’t shake the feeling that she is being haunted by her past . . . and by someone following her. When she spots a familiar and eerie face in the audience of a concert she’s giving for the president in Washington, DC, the scariest day of her life comes back to her with a flash. It has been fifteen years since Liesl watched her beloved Harvard music mentor assaulted on a dark night in Moscow and just as long since the CIA disclosed to her that he’d been spying for Russia. She had seen that man--that eerie face--the night Professor Devoe was attacked. And now he’s back--and coming for her.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
Decisions, decisions . . . You’ve survived your first semester and captured the interest of not one but two of the hottest guys on campus.
Now who are you going to choose?
Callie Andrews returns for her second semester at Harvard determined to do better than the previous fall, where those Bs on her report card seemed pretty good compared to the state of her extracurriculars (F, as in if at first you don’t succeed, you should probably stop trying), friendships (C-minus, since she and former BFF Vanessa are still on thin ice), and love life (D, as in don’t even go there). But various campus rivalries soon threaten to thwart Callie’s resolve. Will Callie ever be a match for—
Grace Lee
the take-no-prisoners managing editor
Alessandra
the gorgeous transfer student
Clint
the guy who might just be too perfect
and Gregory
the guy who may never be perfect enough.
Callie will face some of the toughest choices imaginable: in friendships, in loyalties, and in love. The pressure to pick a side—and a suitor—has never been higher. But will she and her friends choose well?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
Inculcate the love of reading in all children.
Help Beginner Readers become Advanced Readers.
Encourage Reluctant Readers to start reading.
Introduce children to different genres.
Daksha lives in a hamlet on the Himalayas. An orphan, she learns native medicine by assisting a vaidya. A chance encounter brings her to the notice of people who move her to town and admit her to a school.
Daksha is unhappy there and wants to return to her hamlet – until a resourceful doctor helps her adjust to her new life.
About the Short Chapter Book Series
The average word count of books in the series is 6000. The books attempt to:
Inculcate the love of reading in all children.
Help Beginner Readers become Advanced Readers.
Encourage Reluctant Readers to start reading.
Introduce children to different genres.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Fiction