Erica’s parents have just decided to split up. Her mother has decided to move to St. Louis to start a new life with just Erica. Once Erica gets settled in her school, she meets a friend named Destiny. Destiny then invites Erica to a club called TKO: a group of middle school aged kids playing the Knockout Game. The Knockout Game is what it sounds like. A member of the club is appointed to knockout a stranger on the streets in one hit.. Erica is given the job to record all of the Knockout Games, and she soon sees some things that will change her forever.
Calder and Lily, Mermaid and man extraordinaire, won’t ever live a quiet life. It seems that they keep jumping from frying pan to oven and back. They only want to future their relationship, and look toward their future—not Lily’s feuding family history.
In a world of portals, aliens, and humanity on other planets, Jarra finds herself in a situation. As a Military Honor Child and archeologist, she and her boyfriend, Fian, find themselves in a situation. Jarra and Fian are called in to the military because of intelligent aliens, not the harmless ones but the ones that might destroy Earth! No one knows if the aliens are hostile, friendly or just exploring. Jarra is also an "ape"- someone who can only live on Earth because of a faulty immune system.
April's main goal for the year was to get back her man Billy. Along the way, she hits a few bumps in the road. Relationships with her friends and family struggle, but in the end, advice from her cousin and sassy little girl, Des, come in handy.
In communist Czechoslovakia, lives a teenage boy named Patrik, who does not agree with the ways of the party. He tries to speak out against them with his best friend Danika, but the members of the party are always spying. Things really start to change for Patrik when Danika begins to agree with the communists and become very close with members of the party, while at the same time, he realizes he might just be in love with her. Will Patrik be able to escape the horror of the communist world he is living in? Or will he be caught by the party and suffer the consequences?
Billy Dean has had quite an unorthodox upbringing. His world consists of four walls, some furniture, and other necessities. He spends his days in this room, often with his mother, and in the darkness of the night his father returns to cast a shadow over Billy Dean’s quite simple life. It was the chaos of the outside world, unbeknownst to Billy, which drove him to his confinement and forced him to be a “secret” child. He witnesses this destruction when he finally emerges from his miniscule world at the same time as those around him witness his powerf
Adi Alsaid's Let's Get Lost follows the road trip of a mysterious yet memorable girl named Leila and the four disparate individuals that she encounters along the way. Leila is utterly alive and unique in a mesmerizing sense.
After a tragic, rather mysterious accident occurs, Robin copes with amnesia and dealing with school without her best friend, Emily, who is in a coma. She rekindles a friendship with her old friend, Reno, and together they try to solve the mystery of the accident. Through the memories she can recall and a series of notes she writes to herself, Robin fights to remember what caused the accident, which she feels is the crucial missing piece to the puzzle.
