"Edna in the desert" is a story of a 13-year-old girl named Edna who is forced to live with her grandparents in the desert due to her behavior and smart remarks. Her grandmother writes a list of chores for Edna to do but Edna decides she can't handle life in the desert. She runs of to the middle of nowhere. After a while, a local boy name Johnny discovers her and helps her back to her grandparents. Edna instantly falls in love with Johnny and is now determined to get to know him better. Luckily, for Edna, everything works out.
SLAM, and Ruby is dead! Who knew a simple fight could end someone's life forever? Well, Ruby soon finds out that it indeed could. Ruby was madly in love with her boyfriend, Leo Culver. Every day they hung out together. They loved each other, and nothing could get in the way of it, except a simple mistake. Now Ruby's pregnant and has no idea what to do. When her boyfriend Leo and his bandmates go to a cabin, she feels abandoned. As time passes, her secret is getting harder to keep though, and she needs to tell Leo.
In the summer of 1916, two sisters, named Angeline and Adelaide Hanson, desperately want to prove that women are capable of doing things. To do this, they figure that the best way is to ride motorbikes from New York to Los Angeles. Since women do not ride motorbikes, or travel across the U.S in them, what better way to prove women can do things just like men? Unfortunately, several mishaps follow them and make their destination seem unreachable. Will being put in a jail cell or getting lost in the Salt Lake dessert stop them? Read the book and find out!
Disneylanders, by Bob McLain and Kate Abbott, follows 14-year-old Casey's annual summer trip to Disneyland with her family. But this summer is different than the others. Casey’s nervous to start high school next fall, is tired of trailing her embarrassing parents around Disneyland, and her (now ex) best friend Kiley isn’t coming with them like usual. Casey’s miserable, despite being in the “Happiest Place on Earth.” That is, until she meets Bert waiting in line for a ride, a boy a year older than her and with problems of his own.
Sophie's at it again. Except this time she's racing against the clock. Will she be able to defeat her arch nemesis Bethany, whose claim to fame is a magically enhanced tattoo that makes those around her worship her? Will Sophie outsmart and outrun the warring sides' minions and Zeus and Hades themselves? Will she and Kai finally work out their issues and put the past behind them and focus on the present and future? In the second installment in The Blooming Goddess Trilogy, Sophie will have to face these important questions.
The adventure begins when young Flora Belle Buckman saves a squirrel, discovers he has super powers, and names him Ulysses (after the vacuum that sucked him up). There's only one problem. Flora's mother hates Ulysses and desires to kill him. Read about this comical adventure to find out what happens in: Flora and Ulysses the Illuminated Adventures.
Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis is a rich historical fiction novel set in the late 1800s in Pennsylvania. After the death of her father, 17 year old Olivia is determined to work on Fae's Landing, eighty acres of land her family inherited from her Uncle Scruggs. She brings along her close friend Mourning, the son of slaves, to help her work on the farm. With her strong-willed nature and Mourning's optimism, they make a great team despite the harsh living conditions they face.
"The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf" by Ambelin Kwaymullina is set 300 years in the future. The old world has been destroyed, and a new world has been formed. There are people who have special abilities. People with abilities, illegals, are believed to be dangerous and are locked in a detention center. Ashala Wolf is an illegal. She is the leader of The Tribe, a group of teenagers all of whom ran away to avoid being detained. When Ashala is betrayed by Justin, a new Tribe member, as well as an undercover enforcer, her whole world comes crashing down.
Abby is trying to look like an ordinary girl on the outside, but she can't hide it from herself on the inside. Talking isn't always easy, and now she gets visions too... way creepy. It all becomes a race to save her new friend's life, David. He just moved there, and she already has to save him and explain how she knew. Next she gets more visions of someone...a secret group. Does it have anything to do with someone she knew?
Sixteen year old Sebah looses everything she ever knew because of a giant flood. Sebah and a boy, Aban, live in the trees until the water gets so high they are forced to build a raft.
