Avi just moved to Santa Barbra with her family in hopes of seeking the better life they had long been denied. To her it means a new house, a new school and new faces. She begins to acclimate herself like any normal teenager: making new friends, getting a job and surviving average high school life. Except the one boy whom she finds herself infatuated with has a dark secret he can’t quite understand himself.
Once zombies start to show up, they start to take over the world. When the first show up, Becca and Carm try to stay inside but they see someone they know outside. Its Carm's older brother Spence and he is infected with the virus. They think if they pull him inside they will be able to save him but he is far past saving. Spence ends up dying, but not before Becca gets scratched and infected. Lucky for Becca, her family gets her to the hospital before she turns full zombie. Becca and Carm must then get away from their town because everybody wants to kill zombies and half-zombies.
In Casimir Pulanski Juvenile Detention Center, there is a boy named Shreve. He sells candy, which is (of course) against the rules. One day, he gets a new roomate named Jack who has 2 extra fingers and 2 extra toes. He also has powers, that certain people want to train him to use. Shreve and Jack decide to escape from these people, which means escaping from Juvie.
This book, by John Horner Jacobs, is about them running, and figuring things out about themselves, and just trying to survive.
After surviving the harrowing experience of the Dust Bowl, Callie LeRoux feels invincible. She has her life figured out and loves her stylish job at a film company, where she can live the fast life in the glamourous era of the 1920s. Despite her success, she cannot let this distract her from her true mission, finding her mother. She finds herself tangled up in a world of magic, caught in between conflicting fairy clans.
Emma's life is not going so well at the moment; she can't get along with her step-father, her grades are failing and the only person she seems to connect with is Caleb, a boy with a terrible reputation. She longs to be comforted by her mother, but Emma's mom is brain dead, only kept alive by life support in order to bring a baby to term. Emma's grief has caused her to withdraw from the world, but Caleb, who has suffered his own tragedy, appears to be the only person who can make Emma feel alive again. Will she allow Caleb to help her heal?
When Josh goes to his uncle Larry's house to escape the past, funny things are bound to happen. Larry is a happy-go-lucky person who teaches karate. Josh has left behind his two best friends and his parents and moved four hours away. He leaves behind his haunting past which he hopes to forget. His uncle, who is completely Jackie Chan obsessed, helps Josh see the good in himself. Josh finds the positive in his journey by falling in like with a girl. The girl's name is Stella and she has a jealous boyfriend named Britt. Stella helps Josh live with his past and move on.
In the second book of the series, Wren is finally free of the dome, but the outside world is not the paradise everyone thought it would be. She constantly blames herself for the deaths of many of her friends and is determined to protect those that have survived. This becomes a problem when they encounter rovers, who have weapons that can kill from a distance. Not only does Wren worry about the people she strives to protect, she also worries about the ones still inside the dome. Did they survive the explosions that flooded the mines?
The Osiris Curse is the second book in the Tweed and Nightingale Adventure series by Paul Crilley, which centers around two teenage detectives in London. The story follows Sebastian Tweed and Octavia Nightingale's investigation of the death of Nikola Tesla, the infamous engineer credited with inventing the Tesla coil. While investigating the crime, they find a potential correlation between the murder of Tesla and the disappearance of Nightingale's mother. Along the way, the friends encounter romance, secrets, villains, and new friends.
