Task Force is a book based in the future. It is about, what a surprise, a task force, whose mission is to cripple an alien invasion before it even begins. The task force is compromised of teenagers, who are altered and trained to look, talk, and think like the alien invaders. Their part of the mission is to clear a path for a preemptive force from the humans by taking out electricity in the Alien's city that they set up on earth, and guiding the large human force into the alien's city.
Janine is not a rowdy unruly teenager, but her friends are, and they make her go to parties, stay out past her curfew and generally make her parents worried about her. So when she stays out past her curfew and pushes her parents over the edge, she is sent to be a nanny for Kenny and Heather.
Anya learns her aunt, Queen of the Faerie Kingdom of Chroir, will soon die. As a result, she must take up the throne herself as her cousin, Illumina, is unfit to rule. Not only that, the true heir, Prince Zabriel, long ago disappeared into the human realm of Warckum. Determined not to take the throne, Anya sets off on a life-changing journey to find Zabriel and persuade him to reclaim the crown. However, the journey Anya is about to embark on is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined.
Elena Watkins has always been running. Away from what? Even she doesn't know. Her dad just forces them move every 3 months until one chaotic day when he is killed. Not to mention the murderer was actually a dragon...
Becca and her best friend, Val, are part of the minority at their school; they are single. Val wants to change this, but Becca is a cynic. Becca can't trust in love after her sister was left at the altar, which is also why she started up a business on the side, being the Break-Up Artist. People pay her to break up couples. When she is hired to break up Huxley, the most popular girl in her school, who also just happens to be her old best friend, she is up to the challenge. However, along the way of befriending her enemy, Huxley starts to open up and genuinely like Becca again.
In the kingdom of Araluen, Will Treaty is a legend. Not only has he saved the lives of his mentor Halt and Skandian leader Erak, but he’s also stopped the evil lord Morgarath and the cult known as the Outsiders.
The story is mainly about the earth and how the rays from the sun are destroying it. People are struggling with life. Special UAV light shields are placed around cities to block the rays from messing up people skin. Time by time they send a shuttle to the moon so they can begin life there because the Earth is soon coming to an end.
This book is about questions that come up unanswered in people’s minds. It tells people answers to questions like why leaves are green and why the year has 365 days in it. It is full of facts that can surprise most anyone who reads it. It explains science fiction in a whole new way. Find out the most outrageous, but true, facts by reading this book.
Set during World War II, The Extra by award-winning author Kathryn Lasky is a wonderful story centering on a Gypsy girl, Lilo Friwald. Lilo and her family are living in Vienna when Hitler’s soldiers come. They are taken away to a Gypsy work camp along with hundreds of others. Soon Lilo and her mother are separated from Lilo’s father and taken to work as extras for famous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. But the movie set isn’t the hoped-for oasis; the Gypsy extras are guarded day and night, starved, and, when they are not on set, locked in an old barn.
