Imagine a world that stays only one temperature--freezing. Imagine cities full of ice, full of temptations like casinos and party grounds. Natasha Kestal knows this world well, but she wants out. The young blackjack dealer hires a suspicious but seductive mercenary named Ryan Wesson to help her gain passage to "the Blue", a so-called mythical paradise. As they journey across the sea, they are forced to confront the treacherous powers that threaten them.
This book is about a girl who gets taken by the Nazis. She has to leave her house, her friends, her belongings when a group of Nazis come to take her and her family away. They are taken to the local prison, which is crowded with Jews and Gypsies. She meets some new friends, she finds some old friends. She and her mother are taken to a new camp. There, they are sent with some lucky people to be extras in movies with Hitler’s favorite actress, but she finds that it is not what she expected.
In the imaginary Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn in a time that seems to be the Renaissance, three women--the seamstress Ava Bingen, mute nursemaid Midi Sorte, and mad Queen Isabel--must try as best they can to survive the deadly sickness that is raging through the court. As one royal heir after another dies, the situation grows evermore dangerous. What no one knows is that the royal sickness is unstoppable because it originates from the Queen herself.
Leigh’s Mom is dead, and Leigh is afraid that she is going to come back. And not in a good way. In a scary way that Leigh is terrified of. Strange things start happening in the graveyard, and before long Leigh has to decide if she is willing to give up everything. It doesn’t help that she might be falling for a mysterious boy, and her best friend's brother takes a sudden interest in her.
In this book a girl, Meg is a servant under Princess Elizabeth. She is also a witch. She and Elizabeth are close and she occasionally helps Elizabeth using witchcraft. In England at that time being a witch could get you killed and Meg is always aware that if she makes one wrong move she will die.
Alice Parker's Metamorphosis is about Alice who thinks she is just a regular girl until she goes though some strange conditions like a hot and itchy back, but when those stop she gets wings! Her species is called Finwip; people think of them as fairies. When her stepbrother tells her that her grandpa is one but it skipped a generation, she realizes that she has big secret. The next day she goes to an underground village that has more Finwips! Even though she is a young Finwip they put pressure on her by sending her on a mission. She has to rescue a very important person.
Esme is a bold gay Jewish girl in a heavily populated Christian area. With her three best friends by her side they form Sister Mischief, a hip-hop group that defies the standards that their high school places on them. Everything is going great until Esme falls for one of her best friends. Can their friendship overcome their relationship? Or will it all come crumbling down?
Gwen Frost always thought she was an average girl, that is until she gets sent to Mythos Academy, a school for the descendants of great Greek and Roman warriors of the past.
Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices is an anthology centered around, as the title suggests, life between cultures. The collection includes everything from a young Asian-American trying to be "uber-asian" in order to fit in, to a geeky black student struggling against the negative image of affirmative action. The stories are written in prose and poetry, and the book even includes a comic. Throughout the ten stories, the various authors present a picture of modern race relations, stereotypes, and the art of fitting in.
Dance of Shadows, by Yelena Black, tells about Vanessa Adler's search for her sister, Margaret. Margaret who disappeared from an elite New York Ballet Academy three years before. Vanessa follows in Margaret's footsteps to try and solve her mysterious disappearance. When Vanessa arrives, she quickly bonds with several of the other freshman. However, soon after school begins, one of Vanessa's new friends disappears. They are told she ran away, but Vanessa has her doubts.
