This fantasy/mystery/time-bending novel has some bad language, violence, and sex talk but not a lot of any of it. A small group of friends who are students at an exclusive high school fall out after the inexplicable death of one… Read More ›
Violence
Life Like
In a post-techno-nuclear apocalyptic world, seventeen-year-old Eve Carpenter, along with Cricket (her android assistant), Kaiser (her cyborg blitzhund), and Lemon (her fully-human friend) spends her time reconstructing robot fighters to compete in the War Dome for prize money. Adept at… Read More ›
Aftermath
What becomes of the families of school shooters once judgments are passed and the perpetrators are either dead or convicted and imprisoned? What happens when innocent family members end up sharing blame for the event? Can families be faulted… Read More ›
Light Years
Teenage Luisa (aka Lu) is a talented, brilliant girl with a peculiar inherited faculty of experiencing smells and colors when she is feeling strong emotion. (She has other “gifts” which emerge in the course of the book.) She applies for… Read More ›
Into the Hurricane
Eli is a young man whose troubled older sister Celeste committed suicide by throwing herself off a lighthouse. Eli was unable to stop her, and when he got to her broken body and found her still alive, instead of staying… Read More ›
The Window
When the body of Jess’s twin sister, Anna, is found one morning on the lawn underneath her bedroom window, the family is shocked to realize she had been laying there unseen throughout the night. A member of her high school… Read More ›
The Fall of Grace
High school junior Grace Pierce loves photography. She likes the way you can “freeze the world just the way you want it,” and she aspires to win the National Foundation of the Arts Student Photography Contest in order to be… Read More ›
Water in May
The author is a former pediatric cardiologist in New York City whose personal background and medical practice have shaped this, her first book. Mari is a 15-year-old Dominican-American living in New York City who was abandoned by her mother, has… Read More ›
Rewind
Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Manning is a spinner, one of a small group of the population with a genetic anomaly that causes the body to produce an enzyme called chronotin, allowing her to freeze time and assist in criminal detective work with… Read More ›
Keeping the Beat
Five London teenage girls form a band, win the UK section of an international reality show competition, and fly off to California to prepare for the next round. While there, they fall prey to all the temptations you can expect… Read More ›