Joss Kazdan is a troubled teen going through depression. He blames himself for his brother Eli's death. Joss feels alienated at home - he and his mother Kathryn do not get along very well,and his father, Ben keeps to himself most of the time and is suffering from writers' block. The only person he looks forward to seeing is his sister, Callie.
Juliet knows there's something strange about Lucas when she first meets him. After all, what normal person says he remembers a first kiss that hasn't happened yet? Or any of the other events that Lucas says he has experienced before?
Rebecca Harding seems like a normal girl with a normal life. When she meets her new neighbor, Augus, she falls for him. Soon, everything changes. Augus leads Rebecca to discover some things about herself. During all of this, Augus and Rebecca start to feel an attraction to each other. It is so hard for them to hold back from each other. It turns out that Augus is a vampire. He lives on iron tablets, pills that vampires take to activate or boost their powers.
MaxHelsing and the Thirteenth Curse is a book full of action, mystery and (my personal favorite), fantasy. This story tells of an young twelve year old boy named Max Helsing. He comes from a family bloodline of monster hunters, making him one of them. However, Max has a softer side towards the monsters that did not wish to harm him.
This story follows a ninja detective, Randi Rhodes, as she moves from New York City to a small town called Deer Creek. When she moves, Randi thinks her days of solving mysteries are over, but when Deer Creek's prized time capsule goes missing, she must put her ninja suit back on and get down to business as a detective. Randi and her new friend D.C. must act fast, because the town's Founder's Day Festival is coming up and that is when the special guest is going to open the time capsule.
Eros, Prizene, Tip, Azetan, and Kenrya have all received the mark on their 16th birthday. They are forced to leave their homes and family, for fear of endangering them with the enemies that relentlesly hunt the marked. They all meet one another and decide to travel to the training camp for the marked together. Each posses their own unique skills that help the group.
Winter Falls of the Twin Willows Trilogy, by Nicole Maggi, focuses around a girl named Alesia Jacobs who lives with her mom on a goat farm near the sea of Maine. Her mother, Lidia Jacobs, is originally from Italy before she moved to the little town of Twin Willows, Maine. A couple years later, Alesia's father dies, and she is left with only her mother, but the town was shown to be very supportive of her and her family.
The Jericho River, by David W. Tollen is a historical fiction novel that revolves around a young, rebellious teenager named Jason Gallo. The novel opens with Jason and his sister, Athena, frantically trying to awaken their sleeping father, who is trapped in a sleeplike coma.
In Manicpixiedreamgirl Tyler Darcy discovers some important information that may change his romantic relationships, both real and imagined. Tyler has had this big crush for a girl named Rebecca Webb since his freshmen year of high school. This girl became his manic pixie dream girl, a girl that he truly has no clue about. Tyler should realize that he has an amazing girl right infront of him- his girlfriend Sydney. Now it is all up to Tyler to figure out who he truly wants- his manic pixie dream girl, or the girl who's cared for him since the beginning?
In the book The Hounds of Set, the main character is a 13 year-old teenager named Alex. Alex lives with his grandmother in a small, quiet town on the beach. For Alex, life in this dull, sleepy town is boring and he dreams of adventure. That is, until he receives the gift. The gift that shatters his very perspective of existence and sends him on an adventure he never even dreamed of, full of danger and mystery and sends him scrambling for answers. Can Alex solve the greatest puzzle of all?
