Decker Brown and The Monster Club by J. A. England tells the story of a young boy who ventures into a strange world to save his parents from a dangerous situation. Decker Brown is a young boy who loves playing a game called Monster and Mages with his friends Rita, Jude, and Robert. His family was not as perfect as it seems to be in the public eye; they often are involved in arguments or fights. Recently, Decker has been having strange dreams about The Goblin King, (that was what it was called since it was about a Goblin with a massive wooden club).
Girl At Sea is a coming-of-age novel with a twist. Beth is also on a path for revenge. A happy 14-year-old until tragedy strikes her life, Beth is forced to grow up fast. Thankfully her family friend Silas, a 45-year-old former Navy SEAL who lives on his boat, steps in and saves her from a life in foster care. But before they can sail away, Beth is forced to learn some harsh lessons about the darker side of human nature. As they sail around the world, death and danger seem to follow them, along with a black albatross that mostly flies above their boat unseen.
Forever Boy is a paranormal book by Micheal J. Bowler about a young boy named Isaac who met a boy and became friends with him only to discover something shocking and mysterious about him. Isaac, a ninth grader, is an outcast at school. One day, he came across a young boy named Drágan who told him that he was an orphan. Isaac decided to take him home and introduced him to his mother. After much thought on how he would survive as an orphan, Mrs. Penelope, Isaac's mother, who is used to taking in foster children, decided to let him stay at their house.
Lynda Monahan’s poems in The Door at the End of Everything whisper cool hope over the raw road-rash of the miseries of life. With vivid speech, she takes the reader through things unspeakable. This is lived experience: depression, anxiety, abuse, fear, loneliness, grief, and mental illness. These are hard things. But these are real things. Monahan gives expression to things that are difficult to express, both by those who suffer them and for those who are trying to help. There is so much hurt in these lyrics of life, but there is hope.
Talking About Adolescence: Supercharge Your Body and Brain Power by Ms. Eichin Chang-Lim is an educational book about transitioning from childhood to adulthood in the best body and mind. It reveals how we can maintain mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being during this change. Talking About Adolescence is a book that is focused basically on adolescents. It is divided into three parts, making it easier for readers to learn about what it means to move from childhood to adulthood.
Animal families come in all shapes and sizes like human families do, but what is so special about certain animal families is that some fathers are an instrumental part of helping hatch and/or raise the offspring. Some fathers are also an integral part of the process to help the female while they wait for their offspring to be born. Within this children’s book, there are thirteen animal fathers that take over important duties for their offspring.
All My Rage is told from a rotating point of view between Salahudin, his mother Misbah, and his (sometimes) best friend Noor. Pakistani immigrants, Sal and Noor are in high school and face some challenging adult issues. At first they have each other, but when The Fight occurs, they do not speak for months and they are some pretty troubled months. Sal is fighting to keep the family motel in business while dealing with a very sick mother and an alcoholic father who only makes the situation worse.
In the 1590’s, Molly Shipton lived happily with her family in a village called Bidford-upon-Avon. However, when the plague kills both of her parents and most of the village, Molly and her little sister Juliet are left on their own. Her brother, Ben Shipton, has disappeared and is assumed to be dead, but Molly hopes deep down that he is still alive. Molly and Juliet realize that because they are girls they won’t be able to survive on their own, so they dress up as boys and play the lute (a musical instrument) on the streets in order to make money to survive.
Do you think time travel is real? Have you ever been interested in stories about time travel? If yes, you could also be intrigued by the story of two young children struggling to find their way home after their ship sank in the sea. This is SOS by Sue C. Dugan. Brandon and his younger sister, Amy, were on a ship with their parents and grandparents when it began to sink. With Amy by his side, they headed out of their room to meet their parents.
How do you think it would feel to have a magic calendar that can take you through different dates and months of the year? Incredible, right? Well, this is Roger Tarkington and The Magic Calendar: Time's Up by I. M. Maynard, which is about a young boy named Roger who owned a magic calendar but had to accomplish a mission before the year runs out. Roger Tarkington is a young boy who was privileged to be gifted a calendar. Not any calendar, but a magical one. He has been using it to travel to the past and present, but this time, a different situation appears.
