Republic Under Siege: Threat from Within (#2 Wars of New Humanity series) is written by Michael J. Brooks and is a science fiction/futuristic novel. This is the story of Akane and her journey into a new way of life. She meets people, some she likes and some she hates. Akane, an immigrant, hails from a satellite planet in an area known as NeoJapan, and through a lottery of sorts, she is allowed to go to Eden and is offered a new way of living. Eden is the motherland and is the Utopia of the future.
When people think of twins, they often think of people who look and act alike. Some see twins as exactly the same person, but everyone is unique, no matter if they’re a twin or not.
In this meaningful picture book, The Only Me, by Marissa Bader, we are introduced to Stella, the narrator of the story, and her twin sister, Paige. They are twins, but they don’t look alike, and even though they have some similar interests, they are two very different people.
Kat is finally living her best life with her husband Carl and their two girls when all of a sudden Dave, her ex-boyfriend, shows up in her doorway as a ghost. Dave wants to know what had happened to him, and Kat can’t help but be curious too. In order for them to find out what had happened to Dave, Kat has to revisit the past, which is hard for her to do as Kat had a rough past. Kat and Dave also had so many ups and downs. There had been so much hurt between them but also so much love. After revisiting their past, can they figure out what happened to Dave?
What Do You Do with Friends Who Don't Return Your Messages? A Million Views is a story about a twelve-year-old boy named Brewster Gaines. He is very introverted, and therefore, he doesn’t have any friends. Brewster focuses on his life and ignores problems in his family. Brewster only loves to make videos and post them on YouTube. He always dreams of getting a million views. One day he needs one more person to be in his ten-second video so he approaches one of his classmates Carly, to cast with him in it.
Odin (or Odie as his friends call him) is a very curious eight-year-old dog. Not only is he curious, but he is very intelligent too! He knows many tricks such as looking out the window on command or giving high fives! Odie lives in a blue and white house, and he loves to explore the world around him. In this book, Odie introduces himself to you and takes you along on his day so you can see all the things he enjoys in life. Odie also knows a lot about various animals and things around his house, and he teaches you all about them in this book.
A Feast for Pleasant Beasts is a compilation of interwoven short chapters that completes the story as a whole. The setting of the different parts of the story takes place in places that we are familiar with- Edinburgh, Scotland, and Oxford Street- to name a few. The story begins with a boy named Cuthbert Wormhill preparing for a yearly, fabulous picnic. As the story progresses, it explores the different beasts who are invited to the celebration. From an Angler with a Bulbous Nose to Jolly Swans, the uniqueness of the characters makes the story come alive!
Music-loving Azar's vocal cords are broken. So broken, in fact, that talking is excruciating, so she just doesn't. She doesn't answer questions in class, and she avoids every one of her peers besides her middle schooler cousin, Roya. One day, after a particularly stressful altercation in the halls, Azar scampers off to the janitor's closet to relieve stress in the way she always does: by playing music. Things go sideways, however, when her drumming destroys a thousand dollar's worth of cleaning supplies.
Marvin, Tori, and Noah don't want to be on their 7th-grade class trip to Raven Island Prison. Tori would rather be on the field with her teammates playing soccer, Marvin wants to be at a film festival, and Noah would rather just be at home than in that creepy prison. The three are paired to be buddies for the field trip and slowly start to build a friendship. However, when they sneak away from the rest of the group into the woods, they notice something very strange: ghosts. They know something very creepy is going on and rush back to find their school group.
This book is one in the series of The Making of America Series. This volume is about Andrew Jackson and his life and times. Andrew Jackson written by Teri Kanefield gives Andrew Jackson's life right from cradle to grave. Ms. Kanefield marks all Andrew Jackson's milestones from his education, marriage, career, military, and political aspirations. Andrew Jackson also had his own way of writing his views of living in his time; at the end of the book, there were selected writings from Andrew Jackson that expressed his views.
