The Island of Dr. Libris is a book about a twelve-year-old boy named Billy. He is going up to Lake Katrine to spend the summer with his mom. His mom is renting a cabin at a cheap price from a professor at her college. Billy wishes he could stay with his fun dad. Instead, he has to stay with his mom in a place where fun is hard to come by, and when he breaks his iPhone it makes it even worse. Finally, his mom suggests he read some of the books from Dr. Libris' bookcase. He takes her up on her offer, but first he has to find the key.
The Beast of Cretacea is a book about a seventeen year old boy named Ishmael. All his life he has lived in Black Range on Earth. But now, he has signed up for a job somewhere else in the galaxy. He doesn't even know exactly where he is going; all he knows is that whatever job he gets will pay better than a job there on earth. When he arrives, he finds himself with four other kids about the same age as himself. They are greeted by a lady named Charity, who explains to them that they are on the planet Cretacea and they will be working on a ship called the Peq
Sephora Golding has always thought she would be a minor character in her mother’s fairy tale life. As a child, Sephora preferred staying away from the spotlight unlike her mother. But at sixteen, Sephora’s fairytale is more Grimm than Disney, and she begins to want more. Then Sephora meets Felix, who turns her life upside down.
Orphaned Bud Caldwell finds himself in one unpleasant situation after the next. Convinced that his father is the famed Herbert E. Calloway, a grumpy and reserved jazz musician, he sets out to find his father based off of hints he believes his dead mother left him.
We All Looked Up is a pre-apocalyptic novel told in the perspectives of four different teens. In the face of Ardor, the asteroid that has a 66.6% chance of hitting earth, these four unlikely friends come together and bond over their impending doom. Eliza, Peter, Andy and Anita, otherwise known as the slut, the jock, the slacker and the over-achiever, overcome social constructs in a way they didn't think possible in this stunning first novel by Tommy Wallach.
A fifteen-year-old freshman, Shelly leads a unique life. Her brother Ian goes to an all Deaf school called Hawthorne that's two hours away. He only comes home on the weekends, and those weekends are filled with pointless arguments and agitations.
In Book Three of My Wizard Buddy by Scott Spotson, Tyler is now 13 and when these creatures called Genzi (aliens that travel around and destroy other planets) come to Earth, there is trouble. 16 humans are taken, one of them is Tyler. They do test on those 16 people to study them before they take over the planet.
Devin Rhodes—beautiful, sassy, and precocious. At least, that is what her best friend Cass thinks. Devin and Cass have been through everything, through thick and thin, they were there for each other. They were best friends forever. But when Devin is found dead, Cass feels guilty.
Decked in tacky pink paint and white trim, the Cake House sticks out in its quiet Los Angeles neighborhood. It’s a house that demands attention, but what happens inside goes far beyond an ugly color scheme. The unusual home hides a mess of antiques and family dysfunction, and at the heart of it is thirteen-year-old Rosaura Douglas. She’s a plain girl; the only unique things about her are her circumstances.
Few events ignite more horror and shock than a school shooting. News sources cover the story constantly, and everyone’s heart goes out to the families of the victims. But what about the family of the shooter? Junior Alys Aronson’s perfectly structured life shatters as soon as her older brother begins firing shots in their quiet Wisconsin high school, killing many, including himself.
