The year of Luminous Love is about three teen-aged girls. Ciana, a cowgirl with her home at stake and a cowboy she can't be with. Arie, a girl who has suffered from cancer her whole life and then there's Eden. A daughter of a mental mom, she also has a boyfriend named Tony who becomes controlling and overprotective. Eden becomes frightened by him and needs to escape. So, when Ciana inherits money from her grandma's will, she decides to use it to get herself and her friends a trip to Italy and Eden sees her chance to escape her crazy boyfriend, Tony.
Tressa and Luke are in love. They have been best friends for an extremely long time. However, only one of them is alive, and that person is Tressa. Luke was Tressa's only friend. With a mother who always ran away all over the country with Tressa by her side, it was hard to make friends or keep them. But Luke always remained her friend, even after Tressa and her mom were gone for years. While they were dating, none of their family members approved of their relationship, because Tressa and Luke are actually step-siblings.
The book Lies in the Dust is a graphic novel about the Salem Witch Trials and a young woman named Ann Putnam. Ann Putnam gives us her insight on how the Salem Witch Trials came about and her participation in the multiple deaths of innocent people, with the aid of her sister, mother and father. Ann and her sister are being controlled by fear so they go along with her parent's plan to falsely accuse and hang the women and men of the town. By doing this, her parents believe they gain power over the little pitiful village but they only gain disrespect and fear.
An autobiographical graphic novel by Liz Prince, "Tomboy" provides readers with an insightful view into an individual's experiences, struggles, and revelations with identity and gender through simple cartoons and conversational writing.
In Silver Eve, Evie (a healer) walks the countryside, helping the people after the Breeders create chaos. When Evie casts a spell to see the future, she learns that she is the Guardian of Death and is destined to save the Shell of Death. Still recovering from losing Rafe, the love of her life, Evie meets Laurent, a young Rider who turns out to be her complement. Together they fight through many challenges and both learn that love isn’t always that far away.
In Gaby and the Best Middle School Self-Defense Book Ever, you will read about how Gaby and Lily become close friends as they write a book together for a school assignment. Their book gives advice on how to handle the many problems middle schoolers face today. Through real-life experiences, such as bullying, feeling left out, and the struggles of making new friends, they stick together through it all. Their book becomes a great resource for others. Middle school just might not be as hard as it seems…
This book is about a girl named April. She fell in love with a boy named Matt. She has some hard decisions to make about friends, family, and Matt. She is not sure what to do this summer. Does she go to camp, stay home, or hang out with Matt? She is headover heels for Matt but he is confusing April. She is not sure how he feels. He acts as if he has mixed emotions. She feels like he is not that into her at times but at other times she feels like he is crazy about her. What is a girl to do?
Switch is a book about Gypsy Beaumont and her wild experiences. When Ms. Kim, her grandma's neighbor, calls saying that Grandma Pat needs to live with them, Gypsy is very mad: Grandma Pat is a mean, cranky grandma who hates people with Savvy. Savvy is a magical ability that every Beaumont girl gets when she turns 13.
Ms.Rapscott's Girls is a book written and illustrated by Elise Primavera. The book is about five little girls who are eight years old, with the busiest parents in the world. These little girls, scattered across the U.S., are shipped in boxes to Ms.Rapscott's School for Girls of Busy Parents. While there, they learn things like how to find your way, what a birthday cake is, and how to approach a bumbershoot tree. They stay inside a lighthouse but when they go to their classroom with five little desks, there are only four students.
The Galaxy Pirates: Hunt for the Pyxis is a book about Emma Garton and her friend Herbie on a quest to save Emma's parents. Emma is sailing out to sea on the Markab with her Dad and Herbie when they get stuck. The Markab barely avoids getting destroyed by a container ship. Disappointed and sad they couldn't sail, they head back home. They order pizza, but when it shows up, Emma's parents get kidnapped!
