All eleven-year-old Lexie wants is to leave Portland, Oregon and travel to San Francisco, California. Her strict grandparents, whom Lexie is living with, want her to grow up to be a proper lady. Lexie just wants to be with her Mama, in San Francisco. However, Mama’s new husband doesn’t think Lexie should stay with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie’s class at school is raising money to send a doll to the children of Japan to try and keep peace and prevent a war.
This book is the second book in the Hunt Trilogy, picking up immediately after the first book ends. Gene, Sissy, and the boys have just escaped from the bloodthirsty vampire-like people.
Adventures with Waffles by Maria Parr (published by Candlewick press Copyrighted 2015) is a fun book about Lena and Trille's (A.K.A Theobald Rodrik Danielsen Yttergard) adventures and shananagins in Norway, like recreating Noah's Ark and making a rope way between their houses.
The Originals by Julie Plec is a story about three vampires named Niklaus, Klaus for short, Elijah, and Rebekah Mikaelson. These three aren't just your average run of the mill vampires however, they are the original family. This means that they are immensely hard to kill and they are the most powerful of their race. They have just made the journey to the New World from Europe and landed in the port city of New Orleans. Their goal is to make New Orleans a home for themselves, hoping to blend in with and join the alliance between the witches and werewolves already living there.
This book is about a girl named Cassie Taylor. She meets a boy named Ethan Holt at acting school. Almost immediately, Cassie feels drawn to Ethan, despite his horrible reputation and rude behavior toward her. The book then switches between the time Cassie is in school and a few years later. This book describes Cassie's struggle to not let herself get into a relationship with someone who has deeply hurt her in the past, despite how much she loves him.
This book follows the life of 17 year old Imogene Rockford as she is thrown into the life of becoming the duchess of Wickersham after the death of her cousin Lucia and grandfather. Plauged by the ghosts of her deceased family, Imogene discovers a secret that has been hidden by generations that will change her life forever. She learns that Lucia's death may not be an accident and enlists Lucia's ex-boyfriend (and her long time crush) , Sebastian Stanhope, to get to the center of the garden hedge maze where all the answers lie. The only problem?
Seraphina is an exciting book about an unusual girl whose name happens to be Seraphina. She lives in an ordinary house in the town of Lavondaville, the biggest town in the capitol of Goredd. Seraphina isn't just an ordinary girl, however; she is half-dragon. Her father is a human, but her mother, who died giving birth to Seraphina, was a dragon. Seraphina herself, though, didn't know she was half-dragon until she was older. She has lived most of her life with her father telling her not to reveal herself to others, just in case they might find out what s
Lainey Young is at Northbrook Academy and is currently in her senior year. She has a boyfriend, Carter Penrose, and she's worried about her classes, college and boyfriend. She's also worried about the vision that she saw at the end of last year of her impending death which she has to find a way to change before it's too late. Will she be able to save herself at all, or will she end up dying and be able to do nothing at all?
The book, Little White Lies by Katie Dale is the story of Lou, a freshman at university. She meet's a new friend, Vix, and rekindles with an old one, Kenny. But she's not who her classmates think she is, because the day she started university, she took over a new identity. She wanted to leave her rough past behind her and start fresh, but as the story moves along, it begins to catch up with her. She meets a mysterious man named Christian and reluctantly falls in love with him.
Michaela DePrince was born in Sierra Leone Africa, and was naed Mabinity Bangura. Orphaned by war and abandoned by her distant family at a young age, she was known as “Number 27” at the orphanage. She was often tormented as a “Devil Child” because of a skin condition that made her skin appear spotted. At the orphanage, Michaela found a picture of a ballerina, and she was smitten by the picture. She was adopted when she was four by American parents. They enrolled her in a ballet class soon after she came to America.
