A young girl named Kaya has been away from her village for a while and when she comes back her first sight of it is not good. When she sees it, she can see smoke coming from the village buildings and that the ancient pine was pulled down and burned. All of this was the result of the Ookami- the wolf clan. The wolf clan had taken many of Kaya's people as slaves and some of the ones that were taken were part of her family-the chieftain’s family.
From the point of view of three different girls: Maddie, Jo, Skylar, and Emma, it takes place in the five years the four best friends were in camp and when they came back to reunion. They made a pact to stay best friends forever, but when they come back to camp will they be able to keep it? Through terrible fights, boys, and a whole lot of drama they put their relationship through the ultimate test.
In The Brewster Boys and the Eve of Infamy, protagonists Pete and Jon find themselves forcibly fleeing the clutches of a Nazi sympathizer, but what little solace they find in 1941 Hawaii is promptly ruptured by the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. Time-traveling henchmen swarm the island’s beaches, and a Japanese fleet prowls the Pacific. Entangled in the plot to thwart military history, the Brewster boys, along with cohorts Abby and Chuck, must dodge stray bullets and enemy forces in their struggle to right the past.
The Kissing Booth starts out simple enough: Elle and her best friend, Lee, have to come up with a booth for the school festival, and what better thing to do than a Kissing Booth?
What Elle and Lee didn’t think of was what one simple kissing booth could lead to.
After all, Elle never thought that Lee’s older brother, Noah, would show up at the kissing booth; or that she’d be having her very first kiss with him. One kiss can cause so much trouble.
The Spirit of the Heart is a collection of stories from Ismael Nuno's life. He details highlights of his medical career, and explains how he struggled to balance his family life with his career. The stories are uplifting and hopeful, and peppered with sorrowful moments. He tells about how he achieves his life's goal of becoming a successful heart surgeon, and he explains the highs and lows of journey to that point.
This story takes place in a world very similar to our own. except in this world, there exists a strange presence. The Klaatu Diskos, portals to another world, scatter time and space. If one were to come across one by chance, they would be transported to a famous event in history. Some of those events are dangerous. They could be the 9-11 terrorist attack, or the explosion of a volcano. Soon after Tucker’s father goes up on a roof and disappears, only to come back hours later with a strange girl, his mother falls gravely ill.
Ruby Redfort is an agent in the top secret agency Spectrum. When strange things start happening out at sea and in the town of Twinford, where she lives, she is all over it. Pirates attacking ships, dead sea animals and people, and mysterious whispering sounds are all part of this thrilling edge-of-your seat tale. Will Ruby find out what is going on?
Charlotte Sycamore is a sixteen-year old girl who has grown up in castle. Not as a princess though. No, she is the daughter of Her Majesty’s royal surgeon, and she is tired of being cooped up inside. After so many years of trying to be the perfect lady her father and everyone else wants her to be, Charlotte decides she can try to be both. So, she begins sneaking out at night to fence with her friends and begins stealing from the infirmary to give medicine to the poor.