Broken by Braxton Cosby is a post-apocalyptic story which takes place in the United States following “The Big Drop.” The Big Drop is what occurred during a nuclear war after Russia invades the Ukraine. This attack awakened secret alliances and ignited inflation, which all led to World War and nuclear destruction… Some survivors of radioactive fallout and other consequences of the nuclear attack, exist among a wasteland called The Deadland in The Establishment.
In The Beast and the Bethany, there is a man, Ebenezer Tweezer, who is 511 years old and keeps a beast in a room in his house. He feeds the beast whatever it wants, and in return, the beast gives him gifts and potions to make him stay young. The beast gets more and more greedy with his requests for food and eventually requests a child to eat. Ebenezer finds the most awful child he can, and that is Bethany. But as he gets to know Bethany, he finds out that maybe she doesn´t deserve to be eaten.
Republic Under Siege: Threat from Within (#2 Wars of New Humanity series) is written by Michael J. Brooks and is a science fiction/futuristic novel. This is the story of Akane and her journey into a new way of life. She meets people, some she likes and some she hates. Akane, an immigrant, hails from a satellite planet in an area known as NeoJapan, and through a lottery of sorts, she is allowed to go to Eden and is offered a new way of living. Eden is the motherland and is the Utopia of the future.
When people think of twins, they often think of people who look and act alike. Some see twins as exactly the same person, but everyone is unique, no matter if they’re a twin or not.
In this meaningful picture book, The Only Me, by Marissa Bader, we are introduced to Stella, the narrator of the story, and her twin sister, Paige. They are twins, but they don’t look alike, and even though they have some similar interests, they are two very different people.
Kat is finally living her best life with her husband Carl and their two girls when all of a sudden Dave, her ex-boyfriend, shows up in her doorway as a ghost. Dave wants to know what had happened to him, and Kat can’t help but be curious too. In order for them to find out what had happened to Dave, Kat has to revisit the past, which is hard for her to do as Kat had a rough past. Kat and Dave also had so many ups and downs. There had been so much hurt between them but also so much love. After revisiting their past, can they figure out what happened to Dave?
The Fifth Hero: Race to Erase is a book about Jarret, Lina, Agnes, and Malik. The four of them are part of a Climate Club hosted by Lina’s parents, the owners of Calamity Corporation, a company that creates space communities and helps save the earth. One day, they all go over to Lina's house to celebrate her birthday. There, Jarret, Malik, and Agnes overhear a concerning conversation between Lina's older brother Tommy and her parents. Tommy has a top-secret project, The Four Powerful Obliteration of Natural Existence Spheres, four spheres that will ruin Earth.
Music-loving Azar's vocal cords are broken. So broken, in fact, that talking is excruciating, so she just doesn't. She doesn't answer questions in class, and she avoids every one of her peers besides her middle schooler cousin, Roya. One day, after a particularly stressful altercation in the halls, Azar scampers off to the janitor's closet to relieve stress in the way she always does: by playing music. Things go sideways, however, when her drumming destroys a thousand dollar's worth of cleaning supplies.
Marvin, Tori, and Noah don't want to be on their 7th-grade class trip to Raven Island Prison. Tori would rather be on the field with her teammates playing soccer, Marvin wants to be at a film festival, and Noah would rather just be at home than in that creepy prison. The three are paired to be buddies for the field trip and slowly start to build a friendship. However, when they sneak away from the rest of the group into the woods, they notice something very strange: ghosts. They know something very creepy is going on and rush back to find their school group.
