The Children of the King’ is a book written by Sonya Hartnett. It’s about a girl named Cecily and a refugee named May. Cecily and her brother, Jeremy, have been sent, along with their mother, to live with their Uncle Peregrine in the English countryside to escape the war. Along the way, Cecily and Jeremy convince their mother to adopt a refugee named May. When Cecily and May venture out into the woods and find a castle with two strange boys in it, they wind up having an extraordinary adventure! The book fits into an adventure category with a little hint of mystery and magic.
Jane 65 is a young girl who lives on Hullabee Island. Her real name is Geneva Sommers, and she is an orphan. She was found ten years ago after the Flood, and is the youngest of all the orphans at the Troian Center. The Troian Center is run by greedy, evil headmistress Greeley who collects all the valuables the youngsters find and hoards them, though the items could be used to help fund the rebuilding of the island. Greeley couldn't care less about names, so each girl is a Jane and each boy is a John.
There’s a problem, people lost psi (the super ability to do things). A guy named Taemon, who thought he lost psi like everybody else, realizes he does have it when he is trying to find his mom and dad. When he finds his mom, his dad is not there. He thinks his dad might be in danger based on what his mom says, so he goes where they were told as children not to go to get his dad back. The place is trying to go to is called the Republic, that settlement and David’s city (where he lives) used to be the same thing. But, David, their ancestor, shunned the Republic’s.
The journey of the young but powerful fledgling Zoey Redbird continues in the eleventh novel of the House of Night series. After knocking Neferet off of the balcony of her penthouse where they saved Grandma Redbird, Zoey and her circle of extremely goddess gifted friends must return to the Tulsa House of Night and resume their normal lives. But after Erin's rejection of the change and the murder of Tulsa's mayor starts leading the humans to question the school, things start turning south for Zoey.
Eureka is suffering through the first months without her mother, whom she lost in a car accident when a wave crashed and pushed them off of a bridge. She barely made it out alive herself. In the aftermath, dealing with an abominable stepmother, she leans on her best friends Cat and Brooks. When a mysterious boy named Ander crashes into Eureka's car and life, things become complicated. Eueka finds out her mother left her items in her will, things that have very important implications. A locket, a thunderstone, and a book with a story of two lovers in Atlantis are what she gets.
Janine is not a rowdy unruly teenager, but her friends are, and they make her go to parties, stay out past her curfew and generally make her parents worried about her. So when she stays out past her curfew and pushes her parents over the edge, she is sent to be a nanny for Kenny and Heather.
For 13-year-old Sophie, spending the summer with her aunt and grandmother seems anything but exciting. After her parents' divorce, Sophie is left with her mother's family. Expecting the worst, she soon finds herself amazed by her surroundings. As a young adult growing up in the 1960s, Sophie has grown accustomed to racial segregation and discrimination, but these views are soon tested when she finds herself able to transport back to the times of slavery. With her tan skin, Sophie is mistaken for a slave.
Imagine this; You have it all, good friends, food, a big house, but instead you want less. Much less. This is exactly what Echo wants, what she desires. She wants less fat, less flesh, all she wants to be is perfect, and her sense of perfect is looking like a skeleton. To get that, she must never eat and she must puke when she is forced to eat. Her friends are worried, her dad is worried, even her mother is actually feeling afraid for Echo. But to Echo, she's doing all this for a good cause. For a gothic fashion show that is coming up, Echo is ready to reduce herself.
Anya learns her aunt, Queen of the Faerie Kingdom of Chroir, will soon die. As a result, she must take up the throne herself as her cousin, Illumina, is unfit to rule. Not only that, the true heir, Prince Zabriel, long ago disappeared into the human realm of Warckum. Determined not to take the throne, Anya sets off on a life-changing journey to find Zabriel and persuade him to reclaim the crown. However, the journey Anya is about to embark on is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined.
