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.
From the Ashes written by Simone Snaith is about a girl named Lundy who is an average teenager except for the fact that she always dies on her sixteenth birthday, and is then reborn again without any recollection of what has already surpassed. This tragic cycle all started with a curse from a vampire, affecting not only herself, but also her love, Harlan, who, being turned into a vampire, is doomed to find Lundy only to see her die in his arms. With the fifth cycle of her reincarnation almost over, Lundy and Harlan reunite.
Pie in the Sky is a fictional story from the 1960's time period; the setting is in North Carolina. The main characters are a girl named Abby Lovett, who is just entering high school, and two horses named True Blue and Pie in the Sky. When the plot develops, Abby takes True Blue to a learning clinic she’s not quite ready for. And then something happens that Abby was not expecting, and the story develops from there.
