“Firefly Hollow will set your heart aglow” (ALA Booklist, starred review).
Firefly doesn’t merely want to fly, she wants to touch the moon. Cricket doesn’t merely want to sing about baseball, he wants to catch. When these two little creatures with big dreams wander out of Firefly Hollow, refusing to listen to their elders, they find themselves face-to-face with the one creature they were always told to stay away from…a giant.
But Peter is a Miniature Giant. They’ve always been told that a Miniature Giant is nothing but a Future Giant, but this one just isn’t quite as big or as scary as the other Giants. Peter has a dream of his own, as well as memories to escape. He is overwhelmed with sadness, and a summer with his new unlikely friends Firefly and Cricket might be just what he needs. Can these friends’ dreams help them overcome the past?
Firefly Hollow is nothing short of enchanting, reminding us all that the very best friend is the one who encourages you to achieve your dreams. Full-color tip-in illustrations and dozens of black-and-white drawings provide added glow.
What if superheroes were real—and you had to become one? A boy is suddenly thrust into the role of a real-life superhero and tasked with saving Earth from an alien invasion in this action-packed novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Venditti and award-winning illustrator Dusty Higgins.
When twelve-year-old Miles Taylor unexpectedly inherits a golden cape that gives him amazing superpowers, his life instantly changes: he becomes a superhero. For real. With some help from a new friend named Henry, Miles does his best to protect his city. But his skills and courage are about to be put to the ultimate test—an alien horde is working its way toward Earth, with their sights set on the golden cape…and total domination. Ready or not, Miles is about to discover whether he has what it takes to save all humankind.
But what Rose wants is drastically different from what she gets.
Soon Star Girl finds herself in the crosshairs of an upstart super villain wannabe who’s on a devastating rampage through Century City.
Before Star Girl even has a chance to fight back, she finds herself swept up in a mystery involving one of her teammates that could have disastrous implications for her secret identity.
Once again, Rose finds herself torn between two men: her boyfriend, the man she loves, and her teammate, the man who’s secret could sweep her off her feet or destroy her life completely.
Other books in the Star Girl series
DATING THE VILLAIN (Book 1)
DATING THE HERO (Book 2)
DATING DISASTER (Book 3)
Unfortunately, True Love may have other plans.
Becky Sayers is feeling desperately alone. Almost despondent over the fact she hasn’t found her True Love. Can Emma help her before it’s too late?
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Emma Valentine is just your average ordinary twenty-four year old Manhattanite, living in an apartment that makes a shoebox look spacious, barely making a living working as the cutest barista at the Grind House and, oh yeah, she’s also Cupid’s Daughter.
That’s right. Cupid. As in the guy responsible for helping everyone find their True Love.
Cupid’s Daughter is a short story style series. Each issue is approximately 10,000 words or 30 pages and designed to be read in under an hour, so they're perfect for when you're waiting at appointments or have a few extra minutes to spare.
Somewhere in Manhattan, right now, there’s a woman and her True Love is ready to find her.
Normally this would be right up Emma’s alley. Except she doesn’t know the woman’s name and she doesn’t know her True Love’s name.
New York City is filled with millions of people. How in the world is Emma supposed to find the two that are perfect for each other?
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Emma Valentine is just your average ordinary twenty-four year old Manhattanite, living in an apartment that makes a shoebox look spacious, barely making a living working as the cutest barista at the Grind House and, oh yeah, she’s also Cupid’s Daughter.
That’s right. Cupid. As in the guy responsible for helping everyone find their True Love.
Cupid’s Daughter is a short story style series. Each issue is approximately 10,000 words or 30 pages and designed to be read in under an hour, so they're perfect for when you're waiting at appointments or have a few extra minutes to spare.
In this adventurous retelling of The Prince and the Pauper, the lives of a runaway royal and a carnival worker become intertwined as each is compelled to fight for his life and family. Fans of The Sixty-Eight Rooms and Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy won’t want to miss this.
Lute is a prince, next in line to the throne. Griff is a poor carnival worker who does the heavy lifting while the malevolent ringmaster orders him about. But there’s something special about Griff: he can hear the thoughts of everyone around him. And one day, he begins to connect with Lute’s mind, even though they’ve never met and are miles apart.
When Lute must run for his very life, Griff may be the only one who can help him. In a journey over land and sea, these heroes battle deadly foes and make unlikely allies, including a host of magical creatures and their caretaker, a bitter old dwarf, and a mysterious lady pirate. When the boys finally come together, they will learn they are connected in ways they could never have imagined, ways that may save them—or cost them both their lives.
From the Hardcover edition.
She's determined to put a million years between grade school and junior high—even in the face of a father who drives an éclair, a would-be-movie-star mother who suddenly moves back home, and a past that comes back to haunt her with the dreaded nickname.
Although Laura's embarrassed about how she looks in a swimsuit, she tries to stay true to her vow to take risks. She even lets Maria talk her into going to the school dance, where she braves negotiating a truce for a quarreling couple. New friendships form, Laura's mother starts getting too domesticated for Laura's comfort, and hints of romance start to develop—or do they?
Review:
This book should be read by ALL girls no matter what age they are, even if it means reading the book to each other so girls can understand each other's feelings…
This book is so inspiring because as a girl, it is hard not to worry about my size and weight. This book really changed my perception of my body! …
~~Angel, 5 Girls Book Reviews
2015 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Scifi Space Opera Romance
WHAT YOU CHOOSE, BECOMES YOU…
Against everything he had known as truth, William called off his assassination and made the choice to protect the teenage girl Sydney from the forces seeking to destroy her and these two starcrossed lovers. But just as these two starcrossed lovers are beginning to explore their relationship and search for answers to the mysteries of Sydney’s existence, she advances to the next stage of her Star-child evolution—Supernova—and struggles not only to control her new powers, but also the emotions for her new love. William seeks to find the truth behind Sydney's erratic behavior, while overcoming the new threat headed to Earth to destroy them. With a new villains and old allies on the horizon, and a civil war brewing on William’s home world, will self-sacrifice prove to be the only way for him to achieve victory and defend his love, or is there another way?
The follow-up to the space opera romance debut Award-winning novel PROTOSTAR!
Book 2 of the award-winning StarCrossed Saga series, where teen romance blends with science fiction to open a whole new world of action, adventure and discovery! Rated one of the best space opera book series and sci fi alien romance.
The sudden death of 12-year-old Kieran’s cousin Michael is the first in a string of perplexing events that forces Kieran to remap his inner and outer worlds. Soon after Michael’s funeral, Kieran befriends the residents of a pair of extraordinary houses who begin to weave an unbelievable story about the true nature of the universe. Spurred on by his desire to find answers about Michael’s death, Kieran ranges over the humid suburban landscape, all the while evading an unfriendly FBI agent whose work may involve a lot more than he lets on. As the line between what is real and what is not becomes a blur, Kieran is propelled ever closer to the scene of Michael’s death. Too close, in fact.
Bring your laughter and your smile.
"Molly McDougal Montgomery McGrath"
Is guaranteed to make you laugh.
As will Aunt Bertha and bald Uncle Fred,
Or would you prefer an odd hat on your head?
In that case, the place is "Fedora Flats."
Where else may you wear a porcupine hat?
I hope that I don’t hear you complain
If zombies await you at Fourth and Main.
You will feel sad when you say goodbye
To "The Beast, The Frog, My Friend and I."
But take heart, dear reader: you’ll split your sides
Reading the stories you find inside.
You will chuckle, chortle, roll on the floor,
Fall down laughing and beg for more.
Hold on to your hat. Admire your pants.
Be grateful for visits from uncles and aunts.
Don’t turn up your nose at the presents they bring.
"Bermuda Shorts" may be just the right thing.
When you’ve read the stories, be happy, my friend.
You will soon take them out and read them again.
I’m a freak, but I've got the God-given sense to know to keep it a secret that I can use magic to lose some things and to find other things. As magic goes, it totally sucks, especially since I can’t control it. I couldn’t use it to find my brother and save him from a serial killer. So what good is it that I can lose a shoe and find a hubcap?
Some people do think I'm extra special, though. I don’t know how they found out about me, but the Stone Men and their Black Dogs are after me every chance they get. It's their job to keep magic a secret and make you think the world is normal. The Glass Man’s out to get me, too. He's just out to make everybody his psycho slave. There's a war coming between Stone and Glass, and I'm right in the middle. But this war isn't just about hidden magic and humans.
When you’re a little kid, your parents tell you that there isn’t any such thing as monsters. Well, they’re lying. Some monsters want to offer you a deal, and some, well, some just might end up your best friend. Others, they just want to eat you.
Right now, I’m dodging homework and things trying to turn me into lunch. I’m gonna find a way out of this war and save my friends… or die trying--
Ronald Reagan is President and the city of Denver is reeling from the 1970s Oil Boom when sixteen-year-old- Jett finds employment making confections for Watson's Candies. But when tragedy strikes, the hard-as-nails orphan wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a strangely altered word where her very words could spell doom.
The Psychiatrist blinked at me, and just that fast, I knew I must have said something wrong. The clothes, the old cars, the peculiar cadence of their speech; my skin danced with goose pimples and I shivered. I tried to ignore the fear creeping up my back. "What is today's date?"
"October the twenty-ninth," the nurse said.
"And the year? What's the year?" My heart was pounding and I was starting to hyperventilate. Tears flooded my eyes, blurring the scene before me. I was being swept away by emotional forces so strong I couldn't stem the tide. I was so afraid of what they were going to say.
"Why, it's 1927, my dear."
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shopaholic series comes a terrific blend of comedy, romance, and psychological recovery in a contemporary YA novel sure to inspire and entertain.
An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just Audrey but also her entire family.
From the Hardcover edition.
Sent to live with a cousin she’s never met, in a city she doesn't remember, Maggie is sure that life as she knows it is over. It doesn't take her long to learn that Peterborough is not at all what it seems. Her first week in the city, Maggie meets a stray cat named Elowen, who seems to appear out of thin air, and a strange girl named Rhosyn, who introduces her to a coven of witches, and assures her that life will never be the same.
The newest member of an ancient coven, Maggie discovers new friends, new powers, and a new lease on life. As she works with her young sisters to hone their magical skills, they stumble across the coven’s darkest secret, one that their governing council has kept hidden for over a century. Caught up in a conspiracy that began with the very first generations of witches, Maggie and her friends tumble down the rabbit hole, reaching blindly for the truth.
It will take three young witches to uncover the secrets that their Matriarch left behind over a century before.
But when Pea tries a back flip, he unwittingly opens a portal to another dimension and hordes of flying mutant zombie rats are unleashed upon the city. With the help of an otherworldly talking cat sent to help prevent the demise of humankind, Pea and his friends must hunt down the hungry mutants and send them back before the portal closes.
But when the zombie rats attack a neighbor man, the boys have to enlist the help of a graveyard looney and the city's stray cats. With time running out, Pea and his gang track the monsters to the city's sewer system. But in the city sewer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it’s eat…or get eaten.
Amazon Review
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Leaving New York on a night flight to Germany, the quiet, thoughtful Tom, and feisty, emotional Melly, are apprehensive about life in a foreign land. While they will attend the American high school in Würzburg, brother and sister realize they are the only stability each has had in their young lives. They also leave behind the sole adult they came to trust, their Aunt Deeny, a librarian who introduced them long ago to a way to cope with life's ups and downs—reading and books.
Confronting the overwhelming challenges of making new friends, adjusting to a foreign environment, and enrolling in yet another school, they also must endure their abusive father and moody war bride mother. But they are not fully aware of how their father's wartime experiences and sacrifices have left him scarred. Relying on their inner strength and resilience, they navigate the boundaries of military dependents—American teenagers with the same needs, yearnings and heartbreak as any of their generation.