Wild Boy by Rob-Lloyd Jones flares to life in the slums of London, when a hatchet-faced stranger raps on the workhouse door with an unusual request: Augustus Finch, slavering proprietor of London’s most notorious freak show, is demanding a peak at Wild Boy. His entire body tufted with straggly, matted brown fur, Wild Boy sulks in the uppermost chamber of the workhouse, peering down on London from the confines of his imprisonment.
Cherry is a typical small town girl. She goes to school, has a job at a fast food resturant, and has a good boyfriend. She has all these things until she saves the life of a glamarous British Hollywood star. They quickly make friends and then she asks Cherry a favor, a very unusual one that Cherry doesn't know if she can follow through with.
What do you do when the line between living and spirit is blurred? For Ophelia Castellan this is how life is, until her beloved Headmaster dies and throws her life into chaos. The late Headmaster's son, Dane, has come to rely on her in the wake of his father's death, and maybe even more. And that is why she can't tell him the darkest secret behind his father's death after two of his ghosts appear on campus grounds. To find out about the dark secrets lurk in the shadows of Elsinore Academy read A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchinson.
As soon as Ali Bell realised how horrible that fateful car accident was, she knew her life would never be the same again. She lost her family and her old life. Now, having survived her first dangerous adventure with Cole and the zombie hunters, she realizes she has so much more to lose now. The dangers are more real than ever, and the zombies are getting smarter. Alice Bell must gather all her courage for the horrors that lay ahead.
The second book of The Iron Trology, The Vampire Gene, is about how the main character, Rebecca, another “iron metaboliser” figures out a way to avoid the most terrifying vampire Jack, who is desperately trying to kidnap and keep her solely for himself, with less than good intentions. While her fiance Angus along with his two brothers, Marcus and Fergus, meet up with another vampire family who fight against Jack’s army of evil vampires to save Rebecca from Jack’s grip, he kidnaps her and takes her away.
After her crazy, overprotected mother is kidnapped during a dust storm Kansas, Callie LaRoux notices things that were hidden from her before, like her unknown father’s power that was given to her. As she releases her inherited power for the first time, she unknowingly releases a beacon giving her direct location to unnamed forces. Some of these forces, like the one who calls himself Coyote, are kind, but others wish to eliminate her.
Rose Zarelli returns, and after her freshmen year disaster, she feels like she needs to reinvent herself. So because she is now a mature sophomore, Rose has a created a mental to-do list for the year (otherwise known as Rose Zarelli 2.0). One, she will do what she wishes because she wants to do it. Two, she won’t “randomly shoot off her mouth”. Three, she’ll stop worrying and caring about stupid Jamie Forta. She is through with trying to hide herself, just like she is through waiting to be a certain somebody’s girlfriend.
Avi just moved to Santa Barbra with her family in hopes of seeking the better life they had long been denied. To her it means a new house, a new school and new faces. She begins to acclimate herself like any normal teenager: making new friends, getting a job and surviving average high school life. Except the one boy whom she finds herself infatuated with has a dark secret he can’t quite understand himself.
Alice, Summer and Tiernan were best friends in middle school, but their friendship ended badly freshman year. Now high school is over, and the three girls have completely different lives, with completely different priorities. Alice is waiting to be accepted to Brown. Summer is excited for a vacation with her boyfriend. Tiernan is grounded, as usual. However, when their summer plans don't go as expected, the girls find themselves on a road trip to see the reunion show of their favorite band, Level3.
