When an orphaned girl named Samantha gets an opportunity to meet her mom, she takes it. She goes with two men and a giant she doesn't know to another world to meet the person who abandoned her on a doorstep, but it is a much bigger adventure than she expected. She has to fight vampires, werewolves, and she discovers something special and amazing about herself and her mother.
Nadia and Rabbit are on their own. The terrible sickness dubbed BluStar has ravaged the human population, taking the children’s mother with it. Civilization has crumbled and the world has become a very dangerous place. Nadia and Rabbit, however, have a special advantage. Their Uncle Bean has given each of them a shot immunizing them from the deadly disease.
In "Lunch Lady and the Video Game Villain," Krosozka brings us back to school. Just in time for the school election! Now there is a tech bandit on the loose creating a whole new battle for the crime fighting team. How will it affect the whole school's tech? And if this wasn’t enough to handle, the new superintendent wants to replace the county schools' lunch ladies with vending machines!!
Astrid is not your average student. She is a trouble maker with billionaire parents. The elite Bristol Academy has recently caught her in another one of her ploys, cheating on an exam. This is her last straw as she is kicked out of the school. This is strange to Astrid, after all she did cheat, but she isn’t one to get caught. This means one of her accomplices ratted on her, and Astrid wants revenge. After being kicked out of her last private school, Astrid’s world turns upside down as she’s trapped in public school.
In the Shadow of the Lion by Kimberly M. Jane is a story about a girl named Kathleen who comes from Canada to Kenya to go to an archeology camp. She acts strangely from the moment she arrives at the camp. She digs her own grave without even knowing it, and she keeps visiting this cave at the camp, although a man in the cave keeps telling her not to return and to leave Kenya. In the other parts of the country, hyenas and lions have been acting weird.
Beholding Bee is a book about a girl who has to brave people laughing at her because of her birthmark. Bee is an orphan who is allowed to stay with a woman at the circus. When Bee and her guardian Pauline get separated by a man, Bee needs support more than ever. After Pauline leaves, Bee runs away with her dog and pig. Soon she meets her great grandmothers and they send her to school. At school she learns that she doesn’t need to hide, but needs to show that she isn’t scared to be different or to show her birthmark or her feelings.
Set in a mysterious family castle passed on for generations, McKinley’s Jewel takes David, owner of McKinley castle, and Boonie-Jean, his assistant, on a freighting journey. It all begins and ends in the castle which holds what we all want most.
The setting of this book is in Hawaii, and the main character is Jane. She got her arm bitten off by a shark while she was swimming in about 4 feet of water at the beach. After the attack Jane was in a coma for about 10 days and is lucky to be alive. Jane is very embarrassed of her arm stub after the attack and is having a hard time with life. This is a story of the ups and downs of having something drastic happen in a person's life. Is Jane able to come to terms with this new reality?
After leaving her Uncle Chester's homestead to pay off the debt, Hattie Brooks is now ready to take on a new challenge: she wants to be a reporter. Ever since she began writing about working on a farm for her local newspaper in Iowa, she caught the writing bug and decides to try her luck in San Francisco where she discovers an old lover of Uncle Chester's lives.
Glamorous Illusions is a touching story of a woman struggling to discover and define her identity, as well as a coming-of-age tale. It is an account of a woman struggling to find her own independence, in spite of the feminine social restraints during that time and the intolerance of children born out of wedlock.
