The book starts off with a boy named Alex that is always getting bullied by a kid named Jackson. One day a dog came and helped Alex. Jason got distracted with the dog so much that Alex hears a voice in his head that says “run”. Then he gets a weird book and necklace for his birthday. After he finds out the powers of the necklace he goes on an awesome adventure through time and Egypt, and finds out more than what his textbooks say. He gets beaten up badly helping a friend. Will he ever make it back to his own time?
Beth Risk has spent her whole life protecting her mom's secret but then her uncle comes back into her life and she has to start over in a whole new town where she definitely doesn't fit in.
Ryan Stone is viewed as the perfect son of the perfect couple in town, but even he has his own secrets he won't share with even his closest friends.
In cold-war era England, Clem Ackroyd, an intelligent, handsome working class boy with a talent for drawing, falls in love with Frankie Mortimer, the rich daughter of his father's employer. Across the ocean in America, president John F. Kennedy tries to balance an imminent public relations nightmare against the possibility of World War III. As their community becomes aware of the international conflict, the young couple faces not only the threat of their parents' disapproval, but also the threat of nuclear war.
Can you imagine sitting in the kitchen with your mother, eating cookies, and all of a sudden she stops mid-sentence and walks out the door, never to return? That's exactly what happened to Natalie Gordon. Four years later, now a sophomore in high school, Natalie decides to find her mother, the reason she left, and to hear the rest of her mom's story. Natalie takes a twenty-four hour bus ride to Florida in which she meets people who also have stories of love and loss to share. When Natalie finds her mother, will she find the answers she's been searching fo
In this touchy subject novella, 15 year old Emily Wheiler just wants to be like normal girls her age, especially after her mother's death. With many responsibilities as the lady of the manor, and no free time, she starts to realize that her father is threatening in more than one way once drunk. Thinking she's found a way out, she finds a man to court her. Her father then beats and violates her, scarring her for life. After escaping, she is found by a vampire and marked as a fledgling, that must reside at the House of Night.
This book goes through the events of what seems to be six months or so in the life of a teenaged girl who has just moved across town. Sadie is normal enough. She's got a good set of friends, a life you might say. But even though its just an hour away the move is more influential than you might think at first. A new school means new friends. And new friends means a chance to be a whole new you. Or at least that's Sadie's philosophy. Her mistake, not thinking through the implications of having a new face ... That's a lie.
All Our Pretty Songs features two best friends: beautiful, flighty Aurora and the loyal narrator who loves her more than anything. The girls are like sisters, inseparable and completely devoted to each other. When the narrator meets Jack, an enigmatic musician, she's afraid he'll leave her for Aurora. But what she doesn't realize is that Jack has introduced the fantastical into her and Aurora's world. Can she save Aurora and Jack from the mythical evil that threatens to overwhelm them?
May should be having the summer of her life. She's living in Florence, Italy with family friends Gwen and Liam, helping Gwen research her latest travel book. But she only agreed to the extended vacation to escape her parents' upcoming divorce - and the decision of who she is going to live with. So when May meets a girl who looks just like her, but says she is from the 14th century, May decides time travel is the perfect escape. Her twin, Cristofana, is brash, selfish, a little scary, and it's obvious she wants something from May.
Jarra is an 18 year old ape (meaning she can not live on other planets). On Earth are all the people who can not live elsewhere . When you turn 18 on Earth, you can go to college or live with a fixed income anyway. Jarra wants to go to an off world school. She does take history at Asgard university for her first year, but only because it is on Earth. Not reavealing her true identity is crucial. Will her friends ever learn the truth? Will her new boyfriend? Find out in this exciting novel by Janet Edwards.
