Lilly’s Mom’s teams camping trip is coming up, and Lilly is upset that she can’t stay home. Lilly asks her mother that if she can’t stay home can she at least take her four cats. Her mother says that she can if she takes full responsibility for them. The next day, they set off for the camping trip. When they get to the campground, Lilly walks around looking for someone her age.
NASA sends four trained monkeys to space to create a community of chimpanzees. The spacecraft crashes. It plunges into the water, and nobody knows what has happened to the chimps...until one day when a pizza boy is kidnapped. Four days later, another pizza boy is kidnapped. After that, every four days, another is kidnapped. Keah's (one of the pizza boys' friend) parents are away on trip when Keah realizes that someone keeps using their address to order pizzas. Could it be her friend trying to send a hint to where he is and tell her that he's in danger?
Suppressed, written by Sue C. Dugan, is a story about a young woman named Annie who is involved in a devastating car crash. It was a crash that took her best friend’s life and left Annie paralyzed from the neck down.
The Heir is about a boy named Rob, who is the son of a former soccer pro. His dad made it to the World Cup competition, and Rob wants to someday be there too. When his friend, Taylor, quits soccer to join a band, Rob gets nervous. Taylor has been playing soccer with him for years. When Taylor asks him to join the band, Rob joins, but then he realizes he might have to miss some soccer games for the band. Is that something he will sacrifice? It just gets worse when the soccer tournament is on the same day as a band performance. Which will Rob go to?
If you’re looking for a book that is quick and entertaining to read, Doomy Prepper’s Complete Guide: How to Survive Fifth Grade and the Apocalypse is one to pick! Doomsday Prepper, Doomy for short, is having a bad day at school when he notices pink, green, and white lights flashing in the sky on his way to the principal’s office. Anytime he mentions seeing the lights, he can’t understand why the adults act weird, and his sister makes fun of him. He’s really relieved that his best friend, Peter Peterson, believes him.
The Gifted: A Greg O'Brien Prequel is coming-of-age fiction that will appeal to readers looking for a short young adult drama. Greg O'Brien, a gifted college student and also a part-time employee at McDonald's, is devastated when his high-school sweetheart, Rosalyn, cheats on him at the end of the school year and leaves him for some rich guy.
Esme's Wish is a mystical fantasy based on main character 15 year old Esme and her yearning wish to have her mother back. Her mother was somehow lost at sea years ago, and Esme is just not ready to move on. But unfortunately for Esme, her father is. He just married Esme's new stepmother, Penelope, and Esme isn't ready to accept her new life without her real mother. She can't get past the feeling that she's betraying her mother by starting on with this new life with Penelope and her father without her.
I Heart Superhero Kid is a children’s lyrical superhero ballad. This book will appeal to young children who are mesmerized by heroic tales about teenage heroes. Superhero Kid is the new savior in town, and he carries a teddy bear that shoots laser beams and wears a mask. With his heroic abilities passed down from generations, Superhero Kid is kind to both humans and animals, saving them whenever trouble knocks.
The United States has hit a dark era called the Black Forty--a horrid time filed with devastating financial decisions and a plummet of worldwide currency and international social unrest. In addition to these events, the newly recognized Commander creates “The Tax," a system in which every child under 18 is submitted to serve as a slave in systems like farms, millhouses, and mines to sustain what he calls the economy. Vera and her brother, Oliver, are among the many children submitted.
Faith Tiknor, her younger sister Erin, and their father Joe move from the small town of Brownsville to the larger and more affluent town of Delwick during Faith's sophomore year. Faith has to not only start over, friendless, in a new town but also at a new school. Faith puts her best foot forward, and she is optimistic about her prospects. Unfortunately, though, some bigoted, hateful, and entitled people in her new neighborhood, exhibit actions and motives that are beyond reproach.
