In the midst of the turbulent 1960s and the Vietnam War, the young girls in Miss Renshaw's class have no idea what a simple outing to the gardens will bring them. What begins as a field trip ends as an unforgettable experience when their teacher never returns after their outing. The girls are left questioning the events of the afternoon and the significance of their teacher's disappearance. They struggle over telling the truth or remaining faithful to their promise to Miss Renshaw not to tell anyone about the mysterious cave where they last saw their teacher.
The book starts off with a boy named Adrian who hears his brother Sam screaming from in his room and remembers that his brother is being scared by the boogeyman. He and his friends go on a search to find the boogeyman’s house. When they find it thethe house, they know they will have to come back and defeat the bogeyman. Will they succeed? Read to find out!
Wild Boy by Rob-Lloyd Jones flares to life in the slums of London, when a hatchet-faced stranger raps on the workhouse door with an unusual request: Augustus Finch, slavering proprietor of London’s most notorious freak show, is demanding a peak at Wild Boy. His entire body tufted with straggly, matted brown fur, Wild Boy sulks in the uppermost chamber of the workhouse, peering down on London from the confines of his imprisonment.
What do you do when the line between living and spirit is blurred? For Ophelia Castellan this is how life is, until her beloved Headmaster dies and throws her life into chaos. The late Headmaster's son, Dane, has come to rely on her in the wake of his father's death, and maybe even more. And that is why she can't tell him the darkest secret behind his father's death after two of his ghosts appear on campus grounds. To find out about the dark secrets lurk in the shadows of Elsinore Academy read A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchinson.
After her crazy, overprotected mother is kidnapped during a dust storm Kansas, Callie LaRoux notices things that were hidden from her before, like her unknown father’s power that was given to her. As she releases her inherited power for the first time, she unknowingly releases a beacon giving her direct location to unnamed forces. Some of these forces, like the one who calls himself Coyote, are kind, but others wish to eliminate her.
Rose Zarelli returns, and after her freshmen year disaster, she feels like she needs to reinvent herself. So because she is now a mature sophomore, Rose has a created a mental to-do list for the year (otherwise known as Rose Zarelli 2.0). One, she will do what she wishes because she wants to do it. Two, she won’t “randomly shoot off her mouth”. Three, she’ll stop worrying and caring about stupid Jamie Forta. She is through with trying to hide herself, just like she is through waiting to be a certain somebody’s girlfriend.
Avi just moved to Santa Barbra with her family in hopes of seeking the better life they had long been denied. To her it means a new house, a new school and new faces. She begins to acclimate herself like any normal teenager: making new friends, getting a job and surviving average high school life. Except the one boy whom she finds herself infatuated with has a dark secret he can’t quite understand himself.
Once zombies start to show up, they start to take over the world. When the first show up, Becca and Carm try to stay inside but they see someone they know outside. Its Carm's older brother Spence and he is infected with the virus. They think if they pull him inside they will be able to save him but he is far past saving. Spence ends up dying, but not before Becca gets scratched and infected. Lucky for Becca, her family gets her to the hospital before she turns full zombie. Becca and Carm must then get away from their town because everybody wants to kill zombies and half-zombies.
In Casimir Pulanski Juvenile Detention Center, there is a boy named Shreve. He sells candy, which is (of course) against the rules. One day, he gets a new roomate named Jack who has 2 extra fingers and 2 extra toes. He also has powers, that certain people want to train him to use. Shreve and Jack decide to escape from these people, which means escaping from Juvie.
This book, by John Horner Jacobs, is about them running, and figuring things out about themselves, and just trying to survive.
