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When high school freshman Lindy O'Brian sees a go-kart in action she dreams of building her own machine. Only a few minor details stand in her way -- she's broke, most of her friends think she's nuts, and enemies she didn't even know existed are out to get her. The technical hurdles are nothing compared to the crime she and her friend Burt must solve on their way to building… "A Kart for Lindy"
Four rotations passed since the battle exposing the village of Strom. The Alliance had been up rooted and forced to move by the heavy hand of the Parliamentary Council. Their very existence depended on their ability to escape find a destination known as Pangea Pon. Jonas Troupe, the new lorde of the Alliance needs to lead the people of Strom while saving Liotta and her father from dying at the hands of the Parliamentary Council’s Supreme Lorde.
The Sapiens needed to flee Venus’ dwindling atmosphere. Their form of government was known as the Parliamentary Council. The Council created the Enforcement with one goal in mind. Take over, control the Earth, and colonize it for the Sapien population. With the Sapien’s continued expansion, we open our story. Captain Troupe was always a mystery to his son, Jonas. The young man was lucky if he spent more than a year with his father in total. The night of his father’s return would be the last time Jonas ever saw his father again. Jonas set off on an adventure, which unraveled his father’s hidden past.
Pep squad drop-out. Barbara’s giving the high school speech team a try this year—but she’s burned out on practices before the school year even starts! Maybe pom-poms aren’t so bad after all….
Beck and her sister are left alone when their mom is called away--just for a few hours, until their landlady gets home--but a storm hits, flooding the streets of Houston. As the rain continues to fall, disaster follows disaster. And someone knows they’re alone.
While visiting her aunt in Virginia City, Nevada, Lynne Garrett tries to adjust to life altering effects of a deadly car accident and finds herself embroiled in a mystery that threatens her life.
Seventeen Year Old Craig Hancock can’t wait to Fly with NOAA into the eye of a Hurricane. Excited, he boards the plane and heads to Miami and Halsey Navel Air Station. He has no idea he is stepping into a mystery that threatens not only his life, but the nation’s security
Sixteen-year-old Dannie hates his new stepfather, Sheriff Mike, and the secluded island where none of the old rules apply. Even the girls are different—especially the tempting Emily Rogers. And when Dannie thinks things couldn’t be worse, he and Mike face the danger at Paradise Point. Will Dannie put aside his anger and help Mike solve the mystery before anyone else has to die?
14-year-old Jacob Harding is traveling the Oregon Trail in 1850. Read his letters as he tells about why they're going, what they hope to find, and what he wants. Follow along as the Harding family faces disease, treacherous river crossings, and Indians. Share Jacob's secrets about his girl friend, a runaway slave, and his sister's birthday surprise. These fictional letters are historically accurate and reflect the living conditions, slang, and attitudes of the 1850s.
10-year-old Lura Harding is traveling the Oregon Trail in 1850. Read her letters as she tells her family, her life and her love for reading. Follow along as the Harding family faces disease, treacherous river crossings, and Indians. Can Lura survive the trail? Will her six year old sister get caught sneaking candy? And what will they do when her uncle decides to leave the train? These fictional letters are historically accurate and reflect the living conditions, slang, and attitudes of the 1850s
Ben Mitchell has found something shocking in his school locker, something more
deadly than last year's gym socks. But who put it there, and why would they
try to set him up? His discovery may cost more than just a night's sleep. It
may cost an innocent boy's freedom.
Young Adult Fantasy Mashu and the Mystery of The Missing Image excerpt by Michael J. Davies author's page 124 pages cover
art by: mpMann
"Mashu, Cassi and the fantastic world of the tulies fight weird and extraordinary foes to protect the imagination of children everywhere. Battling forces who want to destroy "wonder" in the world, they struggle to understand the clues and race against time and the dimensions of dreams. It's a bewitching tale with thought provoking ideas and characters the reader will never forget " Paranormal
Ghost
My
Sister, The Ghost #1: Twin Again excerpt by
Linda Joy Singleton
author's page
cover art
by: Richard Stroud Meet
Melody, Miranda’s ghost twin! Melody
has been living it up in “Ghostland” ever since she was two.
But now she's back on earth and turning Miranda’s life upside-down.
Not only does Miranda get blamed for all of Melody’s pranks, but this
“ghost sister” has a plan to get their mother remarried to the father of
Miranda’s worst nightmare, bully Heather Drew. Miranda
has to stop Melody’s “helpful” matchmaking, but does she stand a chance
against a sister who can fly, freeze time and zap objects? Paranormal Ghost My Sister,
The Ghost #2; Escape From Ghostland excerpt by Linda Joy Singleton author's page
cover
art by: Richard Stroud
MIRANDA’S GHOST SISTER IS BACK--AND THE FUN
BEGINS AGAIN. A
visit from ghost twin Melody is just what Miranda has been hoping for.
Especially now that she’s stuck with that bully Heather for a stepsister.
Fun-loving Melody is on the run from all the silly rules in Ghostland and
needs Miranda’s help to keep their Grammy from catching her and bringing her
back to the other world. But when Miranda tries to keep her wacky twin’s
whereabouts secret without lying to Grammy, the mischief and mix-ups begin.
The trouble is, while Miranda is working things out with her ghost family,
that sneak Heather is busy trying to make herself Mom’s favorite
daughter. Middle Reader Mystery Mystery At Eagle Harbor Lighthouse excerpt by Carol Parsons author's page 136 pages cover
art by: mpMann
In upper Michigan, a haunted lighthouse looms over Lake Superior watching everything and everyone that comes by. In its day, it saved many ships from storms, but it also didn’t save others. These ghosts have found their way to the lighthouse where they haunt three children that have come to stay in it. Stuart, Dawn, and Ron find that there is another mystery to the lighthouse. When their father disappears one night, the three children learn that they can go back in time through the lighthouse. They decide they have to go back to find their father because an evil man is after him. Will they find the father before Bruce does and learn to live with the ghosts in the house? Fantasy by
Cathy Miller author's page
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art by: Pat Casey
During a spring rainstorm, sixteen-year-old twins, Kara and Carl, hear pounding on the side of the house, and are surprised to see bright sunlight beyond the study window. A shaggy-haired barbarian is striding toward them, a dead deer draped over his pack pony. Carl unintentionally falls into the other world and pulls Kara with him. The window to their world closes and they are trapped in the wilds of King Arthur's Britain. Where's a knight in shining armor when you need one?
Seventeen-year-old twins, Kara and Carl Freeland finally manage to reopen the window to Bedwyr’s world but Kara’s reunion with Bedwyr doesn't go quite as planned. Betrayal, murder, and life threatening battles stand in the way of Kara accepting the love of the man destined for her if she can learn to accept others as they are and not as she'd have them be.
Emma is skating. She does her homework, puts in hours at her uncle’s roller rink, and still hangs out with the same kids she’s known since middle school. She’s living in the present and ignoring the future—until, one stormy night, the past comes back to haunt her.
The orphaned heiress, Alecyn de Beauclaire, alone and desolate, finds a friend in the young Saxon squire, Ranulf Mort à Mer. But as their friendship grows, so does their understanding of reality. Ranulf is so poor it is unlikely he will ever be able to afford a horse and armor so he can become a knight. And if he cannot become a great knight, he will never be granted the hand of an heiress in marriage. Even when Alecyn and Ranulf draw the attention of England’s king and queen, their growing love for each other seems hopeless. And then they are kidnapped by French rebels and discover that sometimes disasters have a silver lining . . .
Thirteen-year-old Ben Costas finds himself alone when his mother goes on holiday with the ‘axe-murderer’ and his uncle, an eccentric eco-protester, disappears. Add to the mix a bossy runaway called Ange, two tenacious thugs, and a geriatric ‘greenie’. Ben’s struggles to reunite with Uncle Rick at an anti-logging protest culminate in a scary race to expose political corruption and save the native forest from exploitation.
In the small garden tucked in a secluded spot between the hospital and street, Casey found his leather jacket, lying on the ground under the redwood bench. When he stooped to pick it up, he saw the wilted bluebonnet. “She was here, and I don’t think she left willingly.”
Raine prayed for the capture of her enemy. Jezera dreamed of peace and happiness. Airic wished for love and a reason to rule his kingdom. Storm was determined to regain his home. Two kingdoms, four young hearts, one destiny…
Crystal’s little sister Lissie is weird. The whole school knows it. But when Lissie suddenly starts acting normal, Crystal knows there’s something terrible wrong. With help from a skateboarder, an elf, and a wombat, Crystal faces a fantasy world of goblins and elves to save Lissie from herself.
When Paige Vaughn and her friends are made caretakers of several ancient Celtic talismans they are unaware that the mythical monster, Balor, is seeking their power to destroy the Earth. Paige and her companions must race against time to learn how to use the talismans to attempt to defeat Balor and his minions.
Forced to leave her sister in a dungeon, Michela goes with her guardian’s to take part in the ‘King’s Test.’ Does the king really believe she can spin straw into gold? Michela denounces the ‘King’s Test’ as a charade. Will she find death, or will she find love?
In the "hep" rhythm of her own Swingster voice18-year-old Margo depicts the restless lives of young people living on the verge between the Great Depression and WWII. As Margo attempts to escape from the limitations of small town life and the desperate struggle of her eccentric family to survive she becomes the recorder of universal struggles of young people in a world which, as she puts it, "No one is quite sure what will happen next." Artie Shaw once said, Swing is … a frantic and somewhat crazy mood." SWING captures the personal way in which young people lived and experienced that mood.
TATO captures children’s imaginations by recognizing their desire to exercise power and earn the admiration of the adults closest to them. Young readers will stay glued to this enchanting tale of a young boy with magical powers struggling to rescue his family from one of his own botched experiments.
Exile... so proclaimed the Elders of Tesrant at Kassia ya Sia’s Judgment hour. Little do they realize they have given Kassia her longed for freedom. Rewe de Arquette is on Queen’s Quest to find her missing heir. The babe had been sent into hiding to protect her from the Dark One. Only the Barrier Stone and the aging Queen stands against the Dark One’s evil.
The entire nation suffered when the Great Depression befell America in the 1930s. The Dandelion Patch is the story of the endless hardships faced by one eleven year old girl. Despite the many struggles, Gloria grows up in an atmosphere of love. She and her family help one another to endure, strengthening each other despite the cloud of the Depression that covers their neighborhood, and the country. The dandelion is a lowly weed, considered by many to be ugly. But it survives--and even glows with unusual beauty when its cluster of yellow flowers amasses in the shining sun.
Rosemary wakes up every single day in the same little room in the same simple cottage, where her twin always manages to be a little too perfect, and her mother always manages to make messes of magic. Nothing exciting ever happens in Wister Woods. But that's about to change... Because now there's a bear in the flower bed claiming he's an enchanted prince, and demanding that somebody change him back!
It’s hard being the imperfect daughter of the perfect couple. Tally’s mother is the beautiful Snow White, her father, the former Prince Charming. When they decide it’s time for Tally to choose a consort, she does what any self-respecting princess would do under the same circumstances—she runs! With a few hints from her six vertically-challenged honorary uncles, Tally sets off on a quest to find the missing seventh dwarf—and some answers to questions about herself and her future as the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Placidity.
It’s tough working the knight shift! Sir Calabash is torn, Sir Marmaduke is tempest-tossed, and Sir Gabriel is too smart for his own good. Frivolous, beauteous, graceful--Princess Honoria is none of these. But she knows a good knight’s work when she sees it…
Have you ever been blamed for something you didn’t do? A Wisky Wasky did it! With a dragon as his sidekick, Jay decides to be NOTICED, once and for all! Unfortunately, there’s a problem with being a Wisky Wasky or a dragon. There’s No Such Thing!
If I told you the patriots of the American Revolution had the secret help of a bunch of warlocks and wizards, would you believe me? It’s true. I should know because I was there. I had the misfortune of being chosen by the Liberty Chronicles. That stupid book brought me all the way back to the year 1773. The next thing I knew, I was recruited by a group of warlocks to save the history of the United States. This became the adventure of a lifetime. Many lifetimes.
There was a ruckus in the marsh ahead. It sounded to him like a big black bear crashing through the woods. Charging straight at him. Josh quickly hunkered down in a mass of scrub oak. The beast charged right at his hiding place, crashing out of the woods storming at him like his tail was a fire. Snorting and puffing, the biggest buck he ever saw, leaped over a fallen tree spattering mud and snow straight over Josh’s head. An arrow bounced from his left shoulder. It caught on some brush and dropped to the ground. Josh heard footsteps, someone was tracking the deer, and panic held his stomach in its icy grip. He scurried deeper into the brush as he saw the tall Ute Indian. “They’d as soon scalp a white man as look at him,” his friend’s words echoed in his head. Don't have a credit card... see customer care section. If you have any problems with any of the pages on this website, please let me know. Thank you, Webadmin. |