# B-13: YA Mystery: SCAVENGER HUNT Seventeen year old comic book geek Marcus Reed’s life depends of solving a decades old scavenger hunt with clues hidden in old comic books. I once tried to figure out how much I’ve spent on comic books since I started collecting years ago and came up with a figure that would make even Bill Gates freak. I made sure my parents never saw the sheet of calculations. It Read more…
# B-9: MG Contemporary: PELE AND YO-YO Yo-Yo is Ramon’s good-luck dog, until Ramon’s uncle gives him away, just days before Ramon’s cello audition. Then new-girl soccer star Anna Peterson adopts Yo-Yo and renames him Pele. The injustice stings Ramon into action. My best friend, Julio, always said if he had a dog he’d name him Pele because Pele is the king of soccer, and Julio loved soccer more than he loved his very own Read more…
# B-19: YA Fantasy: SWEET AMBROSIA Ambrosia Wyne: half-nymph, all-nerd…destroyer of Mount Olympus? It was a Really. Bad. Day. You know it’s going to be a bad day on Olympus when you wake up next to a naked butt you didn’t go to sleep with. This butt, I’m embarrassed to say, was a nice tight one. It was as tan as the rest of the body and firm as a statue, even at rest, so Read more…
# B-8: YA SF Thriller: NUMBERLESS Seventeen-year-old Eve is genetically enhanced and specially trained to kill alien-human hybrids on Earth as part of a covert invasion. She doesn’t expect to fall in love with one, and that changes everything. We took the interstate up the Massachusetts coast, on our way to hunt aliens in small town America. While Gabriel drove, I rode shotgun in the back, a modified Remington semi-automatic rifle on the seat beside Read more…
# B-14: YA Urban Fantasy: DUSTED When human-pixie hybrid Brina starts producing too many kinds of pixie dust, her status slips from strange to bizarre, a vital secret unravels, and some ruthless rebels launch a world-changing coup—with Brina’s unwilling assistance. Brina knew better than to go out in public looking less than her questionable best. But she was late, it was rush hour, and home was thirty minutes away by car . . . but Read more…
# B-7: YA Fantasy with Myth: VENOM’S CURSE Loka has died. Again. When her next reincarnation opens a third eye into the mythical Hindu realm, she discovers she’s a Goddess and someone wants to steal her power, killing her for good this time. “Damn it,” I said through clenched teeth. “Not again! My eyes cracked open to reveal a saffron infused, gothic room with high vaulted ceilings. Thick heavy banners of emerald, scarlet, and cobalt Read more…
# B-17: MG Contemporary: PROJECT: SINNERS CAN BE SAINTS Twelve-year-old Emily Pincus decides to scientifically prove she can be a loving person even though she’s not a conservative Mennonite like most of her family. The resulting novel is a copy of her science report. PROJECT: SINNERS CAN BE SAINTS A science experiment by Emily Pincus PURPOSE OF EXPERIMENT · To prove I can be a nicer person than my cousin Anna. · To prove my Read more…
# B-6: YA Urban Fantasy: DENIZENS It’s easy to build a reputation as an infamous thief when nobody knows your secret, but soon Fairley will have to use her talent for turning mirrors into doorways to flee a gargoyle hunting her. I never imagined something as simple as a wooden box would have me running for my life through an antique store. Then again, in my line of work some encounters went down smooth as Read more…
# B-4: YA Paranormal: SOUL-CALLED LIFE Maggie, a Soul Collector, is due for promotion, but when her soul gets stuck inside a mean girl’s body, she becomes vulnerable to her forgotten dark past, making her question what side she’s really on. Our target, Joseph Landry, exited the deli—or waddled from—with his brown paper bag filled to the brim with greasy food. The smell washed over me and I practically gagged. Humans tended to put the Read more…
# B-15: YA Fantasy: BODYGUARDING EVIL She is pure evil and has a plan to take over and control the world. Thousands will do anything and everything to kill her. There is only one problem. I am her bodyguard. A thin line of drool drips from a foot long tusk and almost falls on my head. I hate drool. I guess no one really likes it, but this slobber is even worse than what people Read more…