After 16 year old Katy Greene's mother dies, Katy goes to live with her Aunt in Japan. At school, Katy meets a boy with a bad reputation and strange powers. His drawings can come alive, but when they do, they are evil. When his powers are revealed to Katy, she gets involved, so when she finds out he is in danger she has to help. Gangsters want him to draw drugs and guns for them and when he refuses they kidnap both him and Katy.
The Lunch Lady and her sidekick Betty are back again. It’s time for yearbook pictures, and the team has to stop the photographer, Stefani DePino, from scamming the students. Nearly all the students seem to be mysteriously suffering from acne breakouts, possibly ruining their pictures. Lucky for the students, DePino has a solution. When the Lunch Lady finds out about the scam, she sets out to stop her. How will she be able to stop this sabatoge?
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani is a symphony of juxtaposition, pitting free-will against fate, fate against friendship, and friendship against destiny. Quite the enthralling read.
Jules just wants to be normal; to blend in. But that’s hard to do when you see visions, or to be more exact, one vision over and over again. When she goes to the movies, she sees an extra trailer; when she watches TV, she sees an extra commercial. In her vision, a snow plow hits a building and explodes. Just when Jules thinks she’s got it under control, it gets worst. In every window, the scene plays out, and worst, she keeps seeing the boy she’s loved dead body. Everyone thinks she’s insane, but the clock is running out to stop the crash.
Valkyrie was hidden from society by her father, a very mysterious man. When her father is killed in an explosion, Valkyrie and her brother, Bo, escape and try to fend for themselves. The Helicopters, secret and black, terrify Valkyrie. What must she do to get away?
Jenny MacLeod is about to lose her family farm because of crushing debt. The only way to save her farm is to sign up for a wind turbine project. When protestors invade their beach and her father has a heart attack, the wealthy Murdochs who benefit from the turbine project take Jenny in. Soon Jenny is alerted by her sly and cunning friend Pavel that Mr. Murdoch has been keeping things from the MacLeods that could save their farm without the turbine project. So Pavel and Jenny set out to make things right.
All that Ginny Davis wants is to have 1 good year. Eighth grade is going to be that year. She is going to try out for cheerleading, join vampire vixens, and maybe, if she's lucky, fall in love. Middle school doesn't turn out how she wants it to. Her family ends up moving, her stepdad loses his job, and her big brother keeps getting into trouble, then her family finds out her mom is having a baby. All she can think about is how sick she would be if worrying could make you sick.
Alice and Rachel are identical twin sisters who share a psycic bond, that is, until one vanishes. Upon her disappearence her sister finds herself in a world of worry when she begins suffering from mysterious injuries that she is forced to hide. The cops will not help her because they believe it is just another run away case, and so does her family.She knows the truth, they took the wrong girl, it is her fault her sister is in this mess and she is willing to do anything to fix it. To learn what happens to them read Jessica Warman's Beautiful Lies.
This book starts out with a teenage girl on an island. She is in a center for orphans after a great flood wiped out most of the island, including her family. In the orphanage, girls are called Janes and boys are called Johns.
Below by Meg McKinlay is the story of a girl named Cassie who was born on the day that her town, Old Lower Grange, was intentionally hidden beneath five thousand swimming pools' worth of water. Cassie was brought home to a superficially replicated version of the town, called New Lower Grange, where life went on and the new town was filled with old memories. Cassie's tale is twisted with story of Liam, a boy in Cassie's class with a haunted past, and the two of them work together to uncover the secrets hidden in Old Lower Grange.
