After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is
a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be
in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost.
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until he is pressed into service aboard HMS Miranda. Beginning his naval career as a "powder monkey"—assisting the gun crews on the warship—Sam learns the ropes of sailing and how to cope with enemies both foreign and onboard the Miranda herself.
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is
done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big
non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him
crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads
off to the sometimes crazy and anything but boring world of Culver Creek
Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down
the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy,
self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is
an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into
the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. And nothing is ever the same.
A group of gay and lesbian
teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at
their high school.
It sounded like some sick kid's
idea of a joke. Under the windshield wiper of his car, Bill Wile had found
the typewritten message: "If you don't take this note to the police and
get them involved, I will kill a lovely blonde schoolteacher. If you do
take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active
in charity work. You have four hours to decide." And then the beautiful
blonde teacher is murdered…and a new ultimatum and a new deadline appear….
"In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States." So begins teenager Isabella Swan's encounter with her new hometown. Her spirits lift, however, when she meets mysterious, handsome Edward Cullen. Unfortunately, Edward hides a grave secret that most endangers those he loves: In the darkness of the night, he yearns for human blood.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the
youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of
genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves
struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
After a bad day at school, eighth
grader Brent Runyon comes home, plays a little basketball with his
brother, then goes inside, soaks his bathrobe in gasoline, and set himself
on fire. Thus begins the real-life odyssey of a 14-year-old boy struggling
first to survive and then to retrieve a place in the universe. Runyon's
first-person account of his close brush with death and his painful
rehabilitation is reminiscent of Girl, Interrupted and Running
with Scissors.
Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur—the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of a man with enormously evil intentions, he sets off on an unlikely quest to try to right his wrong and save the world from imminent destruction. This gripping, fast-paced, hilarious novel is both a thrilling adventure story and an engaging account of one boy's coming of age.
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.