Mona Lisa LaPierre is a part-time moody teenager, blues musician, and Native American detective. Living in Hartford, Connecticut, she can only see herself as the girl who never smiles and wears band t-shirts. As she leaves her years of high school, she is forced to take reality checks on the sudden events fireworking into her life. She has boy on each hand, a murder victim over her shoulder, and her Native American roots staring her in the face. Through all of this, she has to figure out where she wants to go and what she wants to be.
Super Girl at Super Hero High is about a superhero girl whose planet was destroyed, so she is sent to a high school for super heroes on Earth. She doesn’t quite understand everything and feels clumsy at times. Her friend Barbra Gordon (Babs) helps her get her powers under control with a special program. Barbra is a tech whiz!
Shades of Blue by Joyce Scarbrough is a book about a girl named JoJo and a boy named Sam who have been best friends ever since Sam moved in next door as a little kid. As Sam’s personality changes the summer going into freshman year of high school in a way that JoJo doesn’t seem to like, she gets jealous and upset by his actions.
Ben and Tyler are two seniors in high school. The two best friends participate in soccer and are inseparable. Ben is considered as an over thinker and is always about his own thoughts, but Tyler is a people person and everyone loves him. Over time, Ben starts to notice changes in Tyler`s behavior. For instance, he is disrespecting the coach and then he starts seeing a counselor. Then one day, Tyler expresses his emotions of confusion and harassment to Ben and reveals what has been traumatizing him for years.
Brian is just a normal teenage boy who likes reading spy novels. When his class goes to Europe for a field trip, he gets a taste of real life spying. He watches a man die on the street, and his last few words take Brian on an adventure. First, he talks to the embassy. Then, a man from the embassy kidnaps him so he can save his reputation.
Lion Island is a book about Antonio Chuffat, a twelve-year-old of mixed ancestry, and his two Chinese-American friends, who are living in Cuba during a time of unrest. Antonio was brought to a big city in Cuba when his father wanted him to learn proper Spanish, instead of mixing it with his native language, Cantonese. His mornings are spent learning, while his afternoons are filled with his job as a messenger for Senor Lam.
Damien is the 16-year-old son of a super villain mom and wants to be just like her. One night he gets assigned a letter that he doesn't like on his thumb, which will put him in a category he doesn't want, half super hero and half super villain. In his world, as soon as kids turn 16 at midnight, a letter appears on their thumb dictating who they're supposed to be from there on, Damien did not like his.
Mateo loves his family and home in Mexico more than anything else in the world. But his peaceful life is interrupted when Julian, his older brother, illegally crosses the northern border to find work in the U.S, and soon after, Julian goes missing. Despite his fears of a new, unfamiliar land, Mateo feels he is the only one who can find his brother, so he sets off on an adventure of his own, not knowing the language or what challenges he will face but willing to risk anything to find Julian.
