The Princesses of Iowa by M. Molly Backes is about a girl, Paige Sheridan, who is beginning her senior year of high school. But unlike every other year, Paige isn’t as close to her best friends, Lacey and Nikki. Last spring, they were all involved in a drunk-driving accident, changing their lives. Nikki is left with guilt, Lacey now walks with a cane, and Paige is shipped off to babysit in Paris the whole summer. When she returns, she doesn’t come back to her normal life.
In a world where Norse Gods and the United States of Asgard are bound side by side in the Covenant, Signy Valborn was destined to become The Ninth Valkyrie since she was just seven, and her parents had died. She had climbed up on the New World Tree and found the Alfather, Odin the Mad, god of the hanged, and he made her the destined Valkyrie of The Tree. And then years later, burned into that very same tree-
The Valkyrie of the Tree will prove herself with a Stone Heart.
The book revolves around the camp Shadow Falls. It's a camp for people with paranormal powers like vampires, shape shifters, and others. The main character is a girl named Della, and she has family issues not even due to the fact that she is vampire. Her family doesn't even know she's a vampire, and I'm sure Della doesn't want to tell them either. One day Della goes home to visit her family, and finds a picture and letter from a possibly dead relative, and she wants to find that lost family member.
In Backwards, author Todd Mitchell chronicles the curious existence of an entity dubbed “The Rider”; after kind-of-protagonist Dan commits suicide, The Rider begins reliving the high schooler’s final days in reverse. The Rider, aghast at the amount of hurt Dan has inflicted on his family and classmates, vows to erase all of the troubled high schooler’s mistakes. From smoothing things over with Dan’s furious sister Teagan, to (finally) showing his harrowed mom the appreciation she deserves, The Rider can’t wait to correct Dan’s selfish behaviour.
In Disconnected, orphaned protagonist Milly struggles to unearth what really happened to her parents, Frank and Violet Norris, as well as discover the secrets of her own identity, all while battling Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). After Grandpa George's house burns down, Milly and her grandfather relocate to her Aunt Rachel's sprawling Victorian estate, complete with secret passageways, a mysterious tombstone, and eerie cries in the attic.
This book was about a teen that has personal and family troubles. He is very behind in school. He wants to finish High School, but the odds seem against him. He is the only person in his family who speaks English. He usually has to talk to people like the doctors, the laundry man, the electrical company and so on. He works many jobs. His dad is paralyzed and can’t walk, much less help his family. He knows why. And he knows it is his fault. Can he earn his high school degree? Or will he go on as another person who can’t
Spunky young Ondine ran away from psychic summer camp, feeling the lack of her supernatural abilities greatly. Ondine soon finds she herself is in fact quite powerful. First she hears a talking ferret, then discovers a man under a curse and a heritage she thought was merely folklore. Things happen in a whirlwind for Ondine. She continues to develop her powers, but other things also develop — like feelings for her ferret friend. Ondine also attracts the attention of the dashing son of the duke. Read The Summer of Shambles to see how it all plays out.
Our mysterious narrator comes into consciousness to find a young man killing himself in his bathtub. Hovering overhead, unable to pull away, he watches the boy die, unable to understand why he is there and who he is. Ever since then, he has been living the boy's, Dan's, life backwards, day by day, his tomorrow our yesterday.
Brooklyn Prescott (if that’s even her real name) is the new girl at The Rosewood Academy for Academic Excellence, a boarding school for children of the rich and famous and known for its celebutantes. Rosewood is an all girls school which makes Brooklyn sad. But luckily for Brooklyn, and the rest of the Rosewood girls, there’s a boys’ boarding school, The Westwood Academy, just a few miles away.
Rebellion by Karen Sandler is about a teen boy and girl who are fighting to bring justice and fairness to their society. This is the third and final book in the Tankborn trilogy.
