The Illuminated Forest is a book about a twelve year old boy named Mateo. The story begins not long after his Aunt Minerva dies. The toll of losing her is very hard on Mateo, for she was like a second mother to him. The funeral will be in the town of Palo Verde, so his mom takes him there to attend. His grandparents also appreciate their coming during this time of loss. After the funeral, for reasons even Mateo doesn’t understand, he decides to ask his mom if he can stay with his grandparents in Palo Verde. After she leaves, he is not sure it was a
An action-filled adventure awaits you in The Tale of the Wulks. It is an electrifying book about a fourteen year old named Rilk and his companions. Rilk is autistic and a wulk. A wulk is a creature that is almost exactly like a human; the only differences are that wulks have thick hair on their faces and they grow tails at the age of eighteen. Rilk and his friends are having a party at his house. After the party, Prince Englar, and Rilk's grandfather, Manfield, have a conversation with each other. Prince Englar is a dragon from the dragon planet.
Intelligent sixteen-year-old Vivica Wilkins leads a privileged life in the United Regions of North America. Vivica is a blonde-haired blue-eyed model of political correctness. Her mother is running a successful campaign for presidency and she has a house full of servants. She's even making money on the side by hacking into the school database and changing ailing grades. Her last relationship was with a sweet boy named Ben.
It’s April, 1861 and the civil war is right around the corner.
Joe Wood is a young newspaper man. At the age of 14, he runs the Wiscasset Gazette with the help of his young assistant, Owen, and his older best friend Charlie. Joe has three weeks to repay his debt of $23 or he loses the Gazette. But Joe isn’t the only one with problems, not counting the debt he has to repay. Joe is trying to keep Charlie from enlisting.
The Secret Ingredient by Stewart Lewis is the story of a 16-year-old girl, Olivia, who lives in Los Angeles with her two fathers, Bell and Enrique. Olivia has a passion for cooking and is an expert at it; she even cooks the Saturday special at her father's restaurant, "FOOD." The restaurant is her father's love, but is lately going down the drain, and the family can't gather enough money to keep it going. Olivia and her brother Jeremy know how much the restaurant means to their father, so try to help any way they can.
The main character in the book is a girl named Hildy D’Angelo. Hildy is about 17 years old and she has had only two and a half dates. They weren’t even that great and she would like to forget them. During the summer Hildy wants to find true love.
One day when she and her friends are at a coffee shop, they see this really cute guy working there named Connor. He ends up asking her out. Hildy is very excited and overcome with joy.
This book begins right when the previous book, Feral Curse, ended, with Kayla spread across the media and what seems to be an impending war between werepeople and humans. The team (Clyde, Yoshi, Aimee, Kayla, and new ally Jess) flee from Kayla's hometown to be helped by old allies in their quest to do all they can to stop the impending war. Their situation is not helped when they discover that the governor of Texas was captured and taken away by a supernatural creature claiming to be representing all werepeople in his actions. This story includes a conclusion to the
Truth, a Geneva Project novel, is about an orphaned girl who lives on an island that was once devastated by the Flood. Due to the Flood, many children have lost their families, so they are put in a place called the Troian Center that is run by a greedy, selfish headmistress. All the orphaned children in this center are given simple names: girls are named Jane #__ while boys are named John #__. The heroine of the novel is named Jane #65, the youngest member of the Troian Center.
When Jamie, Becky, and Luke move into a new neighborhood they are nervous about meeting new people. Will the people be mean or not? But, on their first day they realize that there was nothing to worry about. After a while they meet a bunch of new friends. They are Tommy, Stephanie, Heather, Michelle, Kayla, Robby, Adrien, and Ashley.
In this second book to The Copernicus Legacy series, four friends, Wade, Darrel, Becca, and Lily, continue to travel across the globe in search of Serpens, the second of twelve priceless relics. There's a lot at stake when Wade and Darrel's mother is kidnapped by the Order, and the fate of humanity hinges on whether or not the relics fall into the wrong hands before it's too late. Danger follows the Kaplans wherever they can be found in their search for the Copernicus Legacy.
