Lies in the Dust written by Jakob Crane is a wonderful graphic novel that depicts life in Salem, Massachusetts during the 1600s.I found this book captivating because what happened in Salem is a horrific event that has caught my interest ever since I first heard about it. Throughout the book, the author gives the readers a historically correct sense of what happened during the trials. This book has some mature content because it does include the deaths of people, and their trials. That can be found violent because the author does show how the people were killed.
In the futuristic New Republic, there is no such thing as being pro-choice or pro-life. Regardless of a pregnant woman's age, she must go to a Parlor. There, doctors will analyze the ultrasound and decide whether the baby is fit to live. That cold, mechanical process doesn’t sit well with sixteen-year-old Chrissie Wright. She’s just found out that she and her boyfriend, Jason, are expecting a boy with deformities.
Fourteen-year-old Dani Burkhart hasn’t made the best decisions. After discovering her parents are getting a divorce, her life spins out of control. She blames her troublesome neighbor, Mr. Reiber, for her family’s problems. This drives her to vandalize his house. However, her sweet revenge backfires and she finds herself arrested.
The Beast of Cretacea is a book about a seventeen year old boy named Ishmael. All his life he has lived in Black Range on Earth. But now, he has signed up for a job somewhere else in the galaxy. He doesn't even know exactly where he is going; all he knows is that whatever job he gets will pay better than a job there on earth. When he arrives, he finds himself with four other kids about the same age as himself. They are greeted by a lady named Charity, who explains to them that they are on the planet Cretacea and they will be working on a ship called the Peq
Sephora Golding has always thought she would be a minor character in her mother’s fairy tale life. As a child, Sephora preferred staying away from the spotlight unlike her mother. But at sixteen, Sephora’s fairytale is more Grimm than Disney, and she begins to want more. Then Sephora meets Felix, who turns her life upside down.
Adam Spencer Ross is a 14-year-old boy struggling with OCD. Additionally, his mom is receiving threats from an anonymous sender. Adam has behaviors that come with his condition: counting, thresholds, and ordering.
The majority of this book takes place at Adam's support group that is filled with people who have OCD just like him.
One day, Adam is enduring another long session of group therapy when a girl named Robyn shows up. And right then and there, Adam knows that she will be his- his love, his girl, and his world.
We All Looked Up is a pre-apocalyptic novel told in the perspectives of four different teens. In the face of Ardor, the asteroid that has a 66.6% chance of hitting earth, these four unlikely friends come together and bond over their impending doom. Eliza, Peter, Andy and Anita, otherwise known as the slut, the jock, the slacker and the over-achiever, overcome social constructs in a way they didn't think possible in this stunning first novel by Tommy Wallach.
A fifteen-year-old freshman, Shelly leads a unique life. Her brother Ian goes to an all Deaf school called Hawthorne that's two hours away. He only comes home on the weekends, and those weekends are filled with pointless arguments and agitations.
Emma is thrown into a whirlwind of bewildering events when she seeks supernatural help to revive her boyfriend, who is cancer-ridden. Meanwhile, a peaceful extraterrestrial explorer crash-lands on her boyfriend's farm and possesses his comatose body. Soon, government agents start hunting the alien down, as well as anyone offering him assistance. In order to get her boyfriend back and safely return this alien visitor to his home planet, Emma and the alien embark on a thrilling adventure of courage, humanity, and friendship.
In Book Three of My Wizard Buddy by Scott Spotson, Tyler is now 13 and when these creatures called Genzi (aliens that travel around and destroy other planets) come to Earth, there is trouble. 16 humans are taken, one of them is Tyler. They do test on those 16 people to study them before they take over the planet.
