Auma’s Long Run is about an African American girl named Auma who finds herself in the midst of an outbreak of a terrible disease. Auma is a runner. She loves running for her school and hopes to use her skills to one day earn a scholarship to high school so she can begin to study to become a doctor. This dream, unfortunately, is far-fetched. Not many women in Auma’s small African village are able to do anything besides marry and have kids.
The Crowns of Croswald is based on the story of Ivy Lovely - a sixteen-year-old slurry girl, the lowest of the low, who works as a kitchen maid at Plums Castle. When Ivy crosses the enchanted boarder and the magic within her awakens, her life will never be the same again.
The story begins in Deadwood, South Dakota, where Ryder is staying at the home of her Grandma, or “Granny,” who plays an important role in Ryder's life since Ryder's mom has passed away. Ryder and her father live in Los Angeles, California, where he is a TV show creator of Super-Rory-Us. When Ryder goes home, her dad is very happy to see her, but she's unsure about his girlfriend, Bernice, and her 3 daughters, who Ryder calls “The Three Happys." One night she turns on the TV and watches Super-Rory-Us. Suddenly, shazam! Rory jumps out of the TV!
Greta and her friend Mari are going into the sixth grade this year! But when they get to the first day of school, that's when disaster strikes. Tiffy, the "boss of the whole sixth grade," is the bully, from flipping her hair to talking trash about her peers. But will Greta and Mari survive their sixth-grade year with the bullies and adjusting? They aren't even in the same classes! Find out the answer by reading Boss of the Whole Sixth Grade by Ann Herrick.
The Unseen is book two in The Order of the Bell series. I advise that you read book one, The Carver, first (it’s on Litpick's website too!) because book two is a continuation of the adventure.
In The Unseen, Crescenzo, Rosana, and Zach are now in Wonderland looking for a way to stop the King of Hearts, who teamed up with the evil Queen Avora, who has trapped their parents. The main characters, Crescenzo, Rosana, and Zach, are the sons and daughter of Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, respectively.
Code Red is the second book of Janie Chodosh's Faith Flores Science Mysteries. Faith Flores is a problem-solving, case-cracking girl from Philly. She never lets anything get in her way of finding out the truth, but when she gets an internship in Santa Fe, difficulties occur.
Faith attempts to handle a love triangle, family drama, and her mysterious father...all while investigating the murder of a girl she met at a party. She finds out that the death is linked to a recent drug identified as liquid gold.
The Surrendered is a book about Vera Delancourt and her crazy experiences. After the Black Forty happened, all the nations' governments collapse. In its place arises a sort of communistic government in the USA. Families are now taxed for any child they have aged 8 or above. If a family cannot pay the tax for that child, the child is taken to a slave camp, or Millhouse, to work off the debt. The children are set free at age 18.
Shadow Rise (the second book in the Shadow Fall series) is a science fiction book about Maia Greystone and her journey to save Earth. After Maia escapes from jail, she winds up finding her friends, only to find out that they, including her long-lost brother, think she is a traitor.
In the book Words In Deep Blue, Rachel Sweetie (the main female character) placed a letter inside Henry Jones' (the main male character) book Prufrock and Other Observations.The letter states her love for Henry who is her best friend. Then she placed the book in the letter library at Howling Books so that Henry can read it.
