Fifteen-year-old Winston Fletcher and her grandma Nanny have a really good story to tell the police if they get thrown in jail. Winston’s fame-chasing mother, Skye Harper, has sent a letter begging for help. Her life has not been as glamorous as she thought it would be when she left eleven years ago, and Las Vegas is not a good city for the poor. While Winston is perfectly content spending the summer of 1972 swimming, watching the Olympics, and crying over General Hospital, Nanny feels the maternal need to help her daughter.
Penny Hike is a book about teenager Fin O’Connell and his unfortunate life. Fin is verbally abused multiple times by his mother’s brother, Uncle Steve.
Flory, a young night fairy, enjoys her unusually pretty wings for only three months. One evening a bat catches her beautiful wings and ruins them, making flying a thing of the past. The young fairy lands in a human’s garden, finds an abandoned bird house, and makes her home there. Flory discovers that the world is a very dangerous place for fairies who cannot fly. Will she survive?
Rachel had her life all planned out then her world came tumbling down with four words, “we need to talk”. Her aunt who was addicted to drugs and had only seen Rachel a couple times had died. leaving her teenage daughter, Misty, needing a home, something Rachel’s parents were happy to give her. But Misty is a rowdy teen who gets in trouble daily. Believing that Rachel can tame Misty, they force the girls to hang out. Rachel, who has never broken a rule, starts becoming more like Misty each day. Who will really change: Rachel or Misty?
Paul Carpetti seems to have his life already figured out. He is going to work at the local mill for the rest of his life and marry his girlfriend Kathy. The only problem?
In Quantum Spirit follows a thirteen-year-old girl, who, with no warning whatsoever, suddenly has "psychic powers." Salena turns to her parents, most trusted friends, and spirit guide to try to find out what is happening to her. With everyone's help she learns to transition to the spirit world and back. But what she finds is not what she expects.
In a world where Norse Gods and the United States of Asgard are bound side by side in the Covenant, Signy Valborn was destined to become The Ninth Valkyrie since she was just seven, and her parents had died. She had climbed up on the New World Tree and found the Alfather, Odin the Mad, god of the hanged, and he made her the destined Valkyrie of The Tree. And then years later, burned into that very same tree-
The Valkyrie of the Tree will prove herself with a Stone Heart.
The book revolves around the camp Shadow Falls. It's a camp for people with paranormal powers like vampires, shape shifters, and others. The main character is a girl named Della, and she has family issues not even due to the fact that she is vampire. Her family doesn't even know she's a vampire, and I'm sure Della doesn't want to tell them either. One day Della goes home to visit her family, and finds a picture and letter from a possibly dead relative, and she wants to find that lost family member.
This book was about a teen that has personal and family troubles. He is very behind in school. He wants to finish High School, but the odds seem against him. He is the only person in his family who speaks English. He usually has to talk to people like the doctors, the laundry man, the electrical company and so on. He works many jobs. His dad is paralyzed and can’t walk, much less help his family. He knows why. And he knows it is his fault. Can he earn his high school degree? Or will he go on as another person who can’t
