Jump into surfing’s most famous and dangerous contest, the Pipe Masters event. In this ‘choose your own adventure’ style book you’re the surf star, and you’re competing against two other pros for the world title. The action is gripping and the waves are huge! With 300 possible storylines and 89 different endings, this book promises a new adventure on each short read.
More than a century after the tragedy of Hélène’s death and before Ella found Kale bruised and broken on her doorstep, Kale moved through the world in a haze of personal punishment allowing it to consume him. Until his friend, Detective Deacon a newly infected Chorý calls on him for a favor.
In this prequel, Kale is thrown into a world of human blood trafficking and is introduced to a Chorý that offers him a chance at happiness— in blood.
Bloodline is a fast-paced, science fiction novel, with an intriguing plot and believable characters.
Follow sixteen-year-old Alex, as she races to solve ancient mysteries, in an attempt to save the human race. Learn more.
Joseph Colafranceschi is a fifteen-year-old, self-described geek, living in the Bronx. The second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy, Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given to him by his father, endows him with power to control his dreams.
After his brothers throw him down a manhole, Joey is drawn into a hidden society of warriors who have been battling a reincarnated Egyptian Pharaoh for over 3,000 years. In the dream world, everyone is not what they appear to be, and it’s impossible to tell who to trust. As Joey slips deeper into a world of gladiator battles and clandestine missions within other people’s dreams, he catches the eye of a beautiful Egyptian princess.
The only thing that keeps him grounded in reality is his best friend Alex, but even she may not be who he thought she was.
Five fun fictions from the author of Tiffany and Tiger’s Eye & Truth and Other Lies! In Rainbow Crush, revisit five favourite short stories featuring gay and lesbian characters:
In “I Hate Love,” Mila melts Laura-the-Ice-Queen’s heart as Jaden learns that dating an older man could have repercussions he hadn’t anticipated. Mila and Laura are back with impossibly high expectations in the side-splittingly funny housesitting comedy “Happy Birthday, Klutzface.” In “I Know What Gay Is,” Jay the teenaged manny and his young charge Sarah, who insists on being called Frank, find an unexpected ally on the soccer field.
School is back in session and tempers flare when Mila, Laura and Jaden stumble into a protest where classmates insist a gender-nonconforming new student “Dress Like A Dude.” In our final story, aspiring teen chef Noah comes out of the closet in a most surprising way during his first television appearance in “The Secret to a Perfect Latke.”
Foxglove’s first short story anthology is full of humor and heart–perfect for a little light afternoon reading!
When her mother’s creepy new garden gnome turns out to be a thousand year old fae, fifteen year old Lizbet has her summer vacation plans interrupted in a way she would never have expected. After the gnome slams an old medallion around her neck, the voices of her past lives, including when she was Morgan Le Fae, come back to haunt her.
Soon, she’s on the run , racing against the clock, to save the entire race of the fae from destruction. Not only does she have to worry about greedy land developers, but she’s being chased by a bunch of murderous monks who will do anything to stop her.
“There are certain events in your life that are markers, and when they arrive, there are no longer days, weeks, or even years: only the before, and the after.”
Cain Foley committed his first murder before he could even drive a car. Not that he would’ve had anywhere to drive to. When he was fifteen, America was one of the poorest countries in the world, and its’ citizens took their hatred of that fact out on each other through gangs and violence. Children that were barely tall enough for carnival rides peppered the streets selling drugs (or themselves) so they could buy their next meal.
Every night on the news, Cain watched as an angelic blonde woman who lost her own child swore she’d end it. She assaulted America’s televisions with praise for the Parental Morality Law: a set of rules that spells out exactly what it takes to be a parent in the eyes of the government, and the consequences of breaking those rules. He prayed every night that she would come and rescue him before his father took his belt off again.
Before she could save him, Cain faced a fatal choice: fight back or die on the basement floor.
He chose life.
Now on the run, he finds himself being hunted by a police officer with his own special brand of torture. Before he can save even a handful of children who have been swept up in the gang life, he must first cover up not one, but two murders: his father’s, and one committed by a teenage madam who is either the love of his life, or his final undoing. As he feels himself being pushed further and further to the edge, he realizes that surviving his father was just the beginning.
Sixteen-year-old Wells Worthy, the only son of U.S. Diplomats assigned to Cairo, Egypt, loves prowling through dusty antique shops on the back streets of the city with his best friends. When he buys an antique brass tube, his life is turned upside down as he and those close to him find themselves running for their lives.
All he ever wanted was to be understood. But after burning away his life as his parents’ forgotten son, as his alcoholic uncle’s punching bag, and as the victimized pariah of his peers, he was reduced to nothing more than an antisocial, misanthropic teenage runaway.
Fast forward two years and he is suddenly murdered and reborn as a ghost; in the afterlife, he is hunted by the Hyndlers, a group dedicated to eradicating ghosts and undeniably connected to his murder. To survive, he begrudgingly partners with Diana, a happy-go-lucky girl with a checkered past; little does he know that, to return to the living world, he must ask himself: place his soul in the hands of others, or the solo of self-destruction?
When seventeen-year-old Constance hits her head one afternoon in Canada, she wakes up in a country far, far away … on another planet. Worried that her family back on Earth will be frantic with worry, Constance just wants to go home.
In this magical other world, a handsome, aggravating, sword-wielding young prince and his trusted advisor agree to help her get back to Earth, but the journey becomes perilous. To reach the magic rock that can send her homeward, the three travelers must battle life-threatening human and natural enemies.
Part 1 of the Urban Fantasy/YA series ‘Darkshines Seven’
‘Beyond Bleeker Hill’ follows a young female drifter and her dog as they travel the desolate roads of a dystopian Great Britain.
Hunted by a secretive new government she finds herself drawn to the dangerous City 17. A place where her past and present will collide and the mystery of a place called Darkshines will slowly be revealed.
Great Britain has broken. The government has imploded and rioting and anarchy have been commonplace for a long time. In the fallen cities and the desolate countryside, people cling to new lives found and forged amidst the chaos. Stepping into the void of power a mysterious group known only as The Party, are attempting to restore order however they can.
Eighteen year old Mia Hennessey, along with her faithful dog Blarney, walks the empty roads and lives her life in the broken cities. Hunted by The Party and haunted by the horrors she encountered at a place called Bleeker Hill, Mia finds herself strangely drawn to the outskirts of City 17, a dangerous place where her past and present will collide and a dark and deadly mystery will slowly unravel.
Twelve year old Sarah is happy living in rural Scotland with her grandparents until her father, Edward Parnell, comes to call. Now Sarah is running for her life.
She sets off on a journey full of danger, finding along the way that there are strangers who will risk everything for you.
Seeking refuge with Marty, an old friend of her mother’s, together they begin to unravel the web of deceit and duplicity that surrounds the Parnell empire. She runs, but she knows that running cannot work forever and she along with her new found allies must go to the very heart of danger to face up to the power of Edward Parnell.
There are friendships, betrayals and lies as Sarah finds herself caught up in a plan for her future that was devised before her birth.
Book One:
Fourteen-year-old Emily Adams has special powers she doesn’t want, a spiteful aunt she can’t escape, and a primeval legacy she knows nothing about. But when an otherworldly being materializes, Emily discovers the true purpose of her magical blood and of the danger that threatens to annihilate her world.
Dormant for over a thousand years, an ancient evil has arisen. This time, it will destroy anyone – or anything – that stands in its way.
With her two best friends by her side, Emily risks everything and embarks on a dangerous journey to Ireland and beyond. As the hour of world annihilation draws near, the fate of her friends, her family and her world lies in her hands.
Can a teenage girl without hero credentials save the world? And will Emily find the courage to face her true self in Emily’s House?
Follow her in her journey…
From birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence.
Winter doesn’t agree. She’s stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began and now she longs to be as free as her ancestors.
With help from her best friend Cedar and the boy she is forbidden to love, Tallow. She believes she can do it. Winter can see a life beyond the Pickets, beyond the constant hunger and the threat of death, beyond the war machine.
Can one teenage girl and her dream of a better life really change the whole world?
Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together.
“But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course not…”
The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again. She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago.
Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships. But neither of the handsome pair is quite what he seems. In fact, one of them is Satan, with his sights set on a new bride. Megan has precious little time to figure out how to stop him. If she doesn’t, either Megan or Suze are quite literally going to HELL.
“Boyfriend From Hell” is the first book in the Falling Angels Saga from the author of the gruesomely hilarious, “Never Slow Dance With A Zombie.”
A Girl Between, the first book in the War of the Witches series, intertwines the struggles of today’s teenagers with past historical times of witch persecutions. The life of Tess, the protagonist, changes drastically when her abusive step-uncle dies and she is forced to move to her grandmother’s house in Woodley, Connecticut. Upon arriving, she experiences a strange feeling of deja vu, as if she’s lived there before.
As Tess settles into her new life, she manages to make friends, while also discovering that she has a number of enemies. She becomes involved in a series of frightening events that leads her to seek the truth about herself and the town of Woodley. Tess decides to undergo regression hypnosis which gives her a glimpse into her past lives. She is shocked when she discovers her true identity and how her past impacts her life today.
A high school senior leads her radio control air combat team to victory and reunites her family in story one. Two pilots in a New Mexico high school accidentally crash their experimental RC plane in a remote Mexican canyon and go retrieve it in story two. Close friends build and fly scale-model Cold War fighter jets against Russian planes in story three. It’s a Jacksonville, FL remote control aircraft carrier versus its Pensacola twin in an all our free-for-all in Miami harbor with Orlando battle ornithopters and giant Wing In Ground Effect aircraft in story four. Three Charleston, SC teens pilot micro-helicopters and a plane through an unexplored cave under Mount Roraima in Venezuela to sample bat blood for an urgently needed medical cure in story five.
Paige knows evil exists in this world, but she never imagined it would want something from her.
In the small town of Astoria, Oregon, surrounded by deep forest and endless mountains, another world thrives . . . a menacing one where dark spirits dwell in soulless humans. Seventeen-year-old Paige Reed lives in this lush, picturesque setting. She’s not your average teen, though she appears to be. Not only is she heartsick, but she’s been receiving cryptic premonitions from a ghostly voice since the age of four. After she hears a haunting message about herself, supernatural occurrences begin to confuse her.
Nathan Caswell seems to peer into Paige’s soul, evoking a magnetic energy between them they cannot deny. They’re connected. But he’s no ordinary guy. He tracks dark spirits and becomes alarmed when they set their sights on Paige.
When two power-hungry malevolent beings make demands on her, she realizes then the fate of mankind rest in her hands. Her world quickly turns inside out where the impossible becomes possible, and in the end she’s faced with a life changing decision that will not only alter her existence but the world as she knows it.
Can a deeply troubled teen overcome her own demons in order to fight those lurking about? With the past and present colliding, Paige must make the ultimate mortal choice. Will it be the right one?
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Johnson is Gifted.
Blessed—or cursed—with Sight and Healing, Abby lives an unsettled life, moving from place to place and staying one step ahead of the darkness that hunts her. When she arrives in Jackson, Wyoming, she is desperate to maintain the illusion of normalcy, but she is plagued with visions of past lives mixed with frightening glimpses of her future. Then she meets Kye, a mysterious boy who seems so achingly familiar that Abby is drawn to him like he’s a missing piece of her own soul.
Before Abby can discover the reason for her feelings toward Kye, the darkness catches up to her and she is forced to flee again. But this time she’s not just running. She is fighting back with Kye at her side, and it’s not just Abby’s life at stake.
Testing the Waters just got a little more crazy.
The first time I saw them smoking crystal meth, I had no idea what it was. They sat in a circle, and passed around a glass pipe filled with boiling liquid. The smoke was extremely thick and white. It had a slightly sweet smell to it. I knew that it couldn’t have been anything good, but other than that, I was lost.
The night I chose to leave Josh to be with Derrick, was the night I chose my fate for the next four years.
That night chose not only my fate, but the fate of Zoe and Chloe, and the fate of their relationship with myself and my family. My spiritual and moral struggle was just beginning.
American teenagers Hana and Alex are on a quest for an alchemist’s flask takes them on a dangerous adventure through the castles and dungeons of Prague.
“[A]n exciting…thriller with supernatural elements and a brave, enterprising heroine.” — Kirkus Reviews.
“[A] fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat mystery-adventure.”– Clarion Reviews
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