The book starts off with two girls on top of an amusement park ride. The main character wakes up days later and has no memory of what happened. Worse, her friend isn't waking up. The whole book talks about the new struggles she now faces with her brain damage. This book was well written and very original. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a somewhat girly mystery.
Sixteen year old Brooke Bentley has no idea what she is in for when her car breaks down in front of Laura de France's house. The octogenarian is friendly, frail... and thinks she is the famous actress Terry Moore. Laura takes an immediate liking to Brooke, and, through a strange turn of events, soon controls almost every aspect of Brooke's life as she seeks to turn the teen into a movie star.
"Fighter's Alley" is a book about a boy named Will whose father was campaigning for mayor. Will was not allowed to do anything "disgraceful" because it might ruin his father's campaign. But while Will was waiting for his father to pick him up one day, he heard a noise down the alley. It was a boxing match going on at a club called the Woodrat. As soon as he watched one match he was in love. So, day after day, he went back to watch the fights, until one day someone in the boxing ring needed someone to box with. The people
Counting to D was the story of a dyslexic teen named Sam uprooted from her home and thrown into a completely new terrain. At her old school, people considered her dumb and smart because of her lackluster reading skills but phenomenal math abilities. Because of this, Sam makes it her mission to keep her dyslexia a secret from other students at this new school, including the infamous 'Brain Trust', a group of genius students in constant competition to tromp one another in grades and scores
Deformed and weak, Coe is constantly reminded that this is a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, and she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh life is the strong, capable Tiam. Sadly, love has been forgotten by her society. Only survival is known, but when the king falls ill, she is invited into the palace, a beautiful castle that she soon learns has many secrets. Coe must race to find the answers to save the people she cares about before their world and everything they know is lost to the tides of the ocean.
In the book "Get Psyched," Zoey Christopher is a fifteen year old girl with psychic abilities. Zoey starts to have visions of a fire at an upcoming cheerleading competition. While trying to prevent the fire, Zoey experiences friendship and even a little romance.
The Mirk and Midnight Hour by Jane Nickerson is an enchanting and suspenseful tale based on the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin. The Mirk and Midnight Hour is set in Civil War Mississippi, where 17-year-old Violet Dancey is trying to adjust to her father’s remarriage and her twin brother’s death. Then, she finds a wounded Union soldier in an abandoned cabin in the woods, and her life becomes even more complicated. She knows that he is an enemy, but she tries to help him.
Mike, a normal student attending high school discovers the death of a fellow classmate. Robbie Ducharme, a nerdy kid in his math class, has been brutally kicked to death in the park. Riel, Mike’s foster parent, is worried that Mike had something to do with the death, but Mike keeps telling him that he was not the murderer. Nonetheless, Mike finds out that all the signs and clues point towards him. Mike feels afraid that someone might be setting him up for a crime he never committed.
After moving to Japan, Katie Green expected life to be more tranquil, quiet and simple. Instead, she meets Japanese legends and is kidnapped by the fearsome Yakuza. So naturally, after all this, timid Katie turns down the offer to escape Japan and return to the Americas. Though this time she’s prepared; she has her legendary boyfriend Tomo, mysterious ally Jun and developing powers of her own. Katie feels like she can take on anything. Then the power that fuels Katie, Jun and Tomo revolts,causing all three to face their deepest fears: their pasts.
The Blood Guard is an interesting novel that gets right into the action. It starts out with Evelyn Ronan Truelove and it explains how he hates his girly name. The day came when his mom decided he needed to learn to fight. On the last day of school, his mom picked him up from school early and informed him that his dad was kidnapped. Evelyn encounters many new associates along his action packed adventure while he is trying to defeat the bend sinister.
