Elena Watkins is a young teenage girl who just wants a normal life and wants her dad to stop forcing them to move every three months. She got part of her wish when dragons came for her and her dad. She was finally able to stop moving. The dragons killed her father, who she later found out was a dragon himself.
Mara lives in the capital of Aygrima where those with the ability to use magic are monitored very closely and trained to use it to serve the ruler and protector, the Autarch. To help prevent an uprising against him, he decrees that every citizen age 15 and up must wear masks that open all your thoughts up to the Watchers, his gifted police force, or face exile to a horrific mining camp.
Jane 65 is a young girl who lives on Hullabee Island. Her real name is Geneva Sommers, and she is an orphan. She was found ten years ago after the Flood, and is the youngest of all the orphans at the Troian Center. The Troian Center is run by greedy, evil headmistress Greeley who collects all the valuables the youngsters find and hoards them, though the items could be used to help fund the rebuilding of the island. Greeley couldn't care less about names, so each girl is a Jane and each boy is a John.
There’s a problem, people lost psi (the super ability to do things). A guy named Taemon, who thought he lost psi like everybody else, realizes he does have it when he is trying to find his mom and dad. When he finds his mom, his dad is not there. He thinks his dad might be in danger based on what his mom says, so he goes where they were told as children not to go to get his dad back. The place is trying to go to is called the Republic, that settlement and David’s city (where he lives) used to be the same thing. But, David, their ancestor, shunned the Republic’s.
The journey of the young but powerful fledgling Zoey Redbird continues in the eleventh novel of the House of Night series. After knocking Neferet off of the balcony of her penthouse where they saved Grandma Redbird, Zoey and her circle of extremely goddess gifted friends must return to the Tulsa House of Night and resume their normal lives. But after Erin's rejection of the change and the murder of Tulsa's mayor starts leading the humans to question the school, things start turning south for Zoey.
For Michael, the VirtNet isn't just a game. It's more than a dream, too--for him and countless others, the VirtNet is reality. Who could resist its endless dream worlds and epic fantastical situations; who would ever trade it for real life scenarios? Certainly not Michael and his friends. Not to mention, the VirtNet experience is made all the better when you can break the rules and hack your way to victory. But recent reports have surfaced, one about a mysterious terrorist that uses his hacking skills for a deadly plot against the entire VirtNet.
On a frigid winter night off the coast of a Washington beach, a seventeen-year-old boy drowns, his head dashed into a stretch of unforgiving rock just off the shoreline, fracturing his skull and severing his spinal cord. There is no hope, no chance of survival. The boy dies. His life is over. Finished. Ended.
Eureka is suffering through the first months without her mother, whom she lost in a car accident when a wave crashed and pushed them off of a bridge. She barely made it out alive herself. In the aftermath, dealing with an abominable stepmother, she leans on her best friends Cat and Brooks. When a mysterious boy named Ander crashes into Eureka's car and life, things become complicated. Eueka finds out her mother left her items in her will, things that have very important implications. A locket, a thunderstone, and a book with a story of two lovers in Atlantis are what she gets.
Janine is not a rowdy unruly teenager, but her friends are, and they make her go to parties, stay out past her curfew and generally make her parents worried about her. So when she stays out past her curfew and pushes her parents over the edge, she is sent to be a nanny for Kenny and Heather.
