"So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang for Santa Claus about halfway through the War of 1812." Sixteen year old Briar Gamble is having a bad day. It started with the cell phones singing for Santa Claus. Then came the tanks and the storm troopers. The Black Masks, in their black fish bowl sunglasses. And then along came Captain Albino. The shooting started shortly after that. Like...

Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness. She has to run, to disappear, if she is to survive and tell the world what happened. Her flight takes her through a harsh landscape to places she never...

Suicide Tango is a novel about love and suicide. Tripsy South is a super-smart and thinking seventeen-year-old girl with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. She "suffers" from a laundry list of maladies, including unio mystica, a special knowledge that also comes with a caustic and devastating wit that often draws blood from anyone nearby. Tripsy's pissed off at everyone well beyond her kill radius because America's teen-suicide...

Are you ready to take part in an adventure? To face danger at every turn? To venture into unknown lands? If you are, then Journey to the Last River may be the perfect adventure book for you. 'I would mention the area's name, but I can't. All I can say is that this map would lead the two of us on an expedition into the heart of the unknown, hoping to find the last river for ourselves. What we discovered deep within the rainforest was enough to make...

A hilarious-and slimy-alien adventure (set on Earth) that the bestselling author of Zombie Chasers, John Kloepfer, calls "fast paced, out-of-this-world fun!" Selected by the Wisconsin Library Association for Outstanding Achievement in children's literature. When Margot Blumenthal removes a bright blue slug alien attached to Mateo Flores's back, the school play co-stars know it's definitely not going to be a regular day at West Cove Middle School. They...

Peter and Megan are exploring their curiosity in finding ladybugs. Their adventure will be about where can they find ladybugs.

What if your next meal, drink of water, or lumber for your house was dependent on the success of someone else's gaming skills? For Bastian, Callum, and Odette and everyone else in the concrete city of 55178, it is. The more skilled the gamer is, the more commodities your town receives. Unfortunately, in twenty-four hours, tools will rust, water becomes tainted, and food turns rancid. Every day is a fight for resources, becoming captive to the...

A small girl sets out to do something big, something no one else has accomplished: slay the fearsome dragon! To succeed, she will need to work through challenges, find her own solutions, and be brave! Early Reader for ages 5 to 8 years.

When life makes you into the hero you never wanted to be. . . Now that the cure has been found and distributed, Ruby's ready to move ahead with the life she always wanted: small town, cute house, quiet job, with her boyfriend Sam by her side, of course. All she needs to do is foist the responsibility of ruling World Peace Now off onto her half-brother, Adam. Surely he'll rise to the task of caring for the people with whom he grew up. Sometimes that...

Jaci Rivera queda con sus mejores amigas Callie, Sara y Amanda para una noche de pizza y compras. Sin embargo, una tarde en el centro comercial se convierte en una pesadilla que lleva a Jaci y sus amigas a 3000 kilómetros más allá de la frontera con Canadá. Las chicas están solas y no dejan de huir de enemigos que siempre les pisan los talones, ni siquiera pueden confiar en la policía... El detective Carl Hamilton tiene que investigar un caso...