The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there's Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Suma, Nova Ren.Summary:
- Author:Sorensen, JessicaSummary:
Gemma thought that she was trapped, that Stephan had finally won-but then time resets, and she's given another chance.The clock is ticking as Gemma tries to figure out how to change the vision that ends the world in ice. If she can...
- Author:Williams, MargerySummary:
By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher with a worse attitude than theirs. Then they met Mr. Kermit.
- Author:Armstrong, KelleySummary:
Tess has always been tormented by waking visions that make her question her sanity. When the orphanage she lives in burns down, she decides to face her fears and find out once and for all what is wrong with her. She believes the truth...
- Author:AviSummary:
High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy's attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves. In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell...
- Author:Sorensen, JessicaSummary:
Gemma thought that her mind was gone, but she was wrong. And now she is left trying to figure out the truth of what Stephan is planning to do with her and the star, before it's too late. But finding out the truth is hard,...
- Author:Bertman, Jennifer ChamblissSummary:
Emily and James's teacher Mr. Quisling is up to something mysterious. First, there's the news clipping with an unusual note that he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James discover their teacher has been receiving...
- Author:Reid, M. E.Summary:
Hoping to keep his parents together by fulfilling an old dream of his father's, seventeen-year-old Del starts a band in which all the members have Asperger's syndrome.
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
For the last few years, 13-year-old Tag Jones has been running the family bait shop on the sandy Bermuda beach. He has been helping earn money ever since his father died in a scuba diving accident while searching for a legendary Spanish...
- Author:Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, DavidSummary:
Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia -- an incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and...
- Author:Frank, JohnSummary:
Grizz Brickbottom is one tough cowboy. But even the toughest cowboys, those who floss their teeth with barbed wire as Grizz does, can use some companionship. So Grizz adopts a dog that will help out with the cattle rustling and the...
- Author:Narsimhan, MahtabSummary:
When a note placed in a delivered lunch tin (a tiffin) is lost Kunal is seperated from his mother and ends up living as a slave. While learning to deliver tiffins with the help of an old friend Kunal hatches a plant that could reunite...
- Author:Elliott, Matthew J.Summary:
The participants in an epic battle fought thousands of years ago have risen again, and the world as we know it is almost at an end. When 17-year old Alex Stone leaves Northwood Boarding school to accompany her father on a controversial...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
After she inadvertently gains a powerful enemy by claiming the "cool" seat in her homeroom, tenth grader Meredith struggles to find the strength to stand up for herself and survive high school with her dignity intact.
- Author:FUNKE, Cornelia CarolineSummary:
Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
- Author:John, Jory, Barnett, MacSummary:
It's Miles' and Niles' final year, and the Terrible Two have one goal: an epic prank, something that will leave a lasting legacy at their school; but will the new superintendent ruin their plans?
- Author:Martin, C. K. KellySummary:
Losing weight over the summer gains Serena some popularity, but it also means discovering first-hand the pains of being a 15-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women. After narrowly avoiding exploitation in a...
- Author:Reiss, KathrynSummary:
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
- Author:Nesbit, E.Summary:
When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortune. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are often more fun than profitable--until one...