Gingersnap is about a girl named Jayna. She lives in a nice house with a pond in the back for her pet turtle. Rob, her older brother, looks after her because their parents died. It is the middle of World War II, so Rob decides to go overseas and fight. Jayna has to go to stay with the annoying landlady, Celine, until her brother gets back. Before he leaves, he gives Jayna their mom's little blue cookbook. In the cookbook, there is a name and an address to a baking store called Gingersnap and a mysterious person’s name. Soon after
Three different teenagers end up in the same town, on the day that a earthquake hits. This earthquake just happens to be the largest one ever recorded in American history. The book goes on to tell the story of each of the three teenagers during the earthquake. They all have their own difficult problems to go through as they try to make it away from the earthquake alive. The book shows their entire struggle for survival and their willpower. They all realize the same thing in the end...that you have to make each day matter.
About six months after they assisted Jasper in America, Finley, Sam, Emily, and Griffin are back in London, and they are still helping out their country in secret. Everything seems to be going fine; Sam and Emily are finally admitting their feelings for each other and Finley and Griffin are realizing theirs. However, when Emily is kidnapped under their own roof, they suspect the worst - that the Machinist is back. With everyone worrying about Emily, only Finley makes time to try and help Griffin with whatever he is facing.
A boy gets killed and the suspect has gone missing. But is this a normal victim and a normal killer? No. Travis is a were-armadillo and Ruby is a were-cat. This paranormal mystery is told from three different points of view: Yoshi, a were-cat and Ruby’s brother; Aimee, a human; and Clyde, a were-possum. Travis’ ghost only reveals himself to Clyde and tells him the events of his murder.
Plum Coyle is an interesting and poetic fourteen-year-old girl, ready to leave behind her childhood and embrace adulthood. Like many young teens, she is self-conscious and ready to explore the world on her own.
Jane is just like all the other girls in the island orphanage, a Jane with a number. Searching for her own name starts when she meets John who tells her that his real name is Nova. It turns out that the whole island has a lot more secrets other than names. Like the fact that she has magical powers and that she, just another orphan, is destined to save the whole island.
Sophie is a young teenage girl who thought her life was that of any teenage girl; that was until she found out she was a Greek goddess named Persephone. Sophie's memories of being Persephone came back to her slowly after she kissed a guy named Kai. Kai isn't just a normal guy though, he was the son of the Greek God of the Underworld, Hades. Theo is one of Sophie's best friends and is also a Greek God named Prometheus. Prometheus puts Persephone's goddess qualities into a human form when she almost died; Persephone becomes Sophie.
Beth Risk has spent her whole life protecting her mom's secret but then her uncle comes back into her life and she has to start over in a whole new town where she definitely doesn't fit in.
Ryan Stone is viewed as the perfect son of the perfect couple in town, but even he has his own secrets he won't share with even his closest friends.
This story is about two kids , Mike and Kate. Mike and kate take a trip to Wrigley Field where they end upo trying to solve a mystery. The mystery of the missing ivy. The ivy is needed to help the Cubs win their baseball games. Who cut down the ivy? Is there a hidden treasure or not? Can Mike and Kate find out who took the missing ivy and why? Read this story to find out!
