Review: Sam Hopkins is a preacher's kid and hates how everyone thinks that they have to be perfect around him. So he joins a gang, and begins to see that he made the wrong decision. When his new "friends" start harassing his slightly eccentric classmate, Jennifer, Sam manages to stand up to them and save her. Jennifer now considers Sam her "magic friend" and confides in him, sharing visions of demons and death. While everyone thinks she's crazy, Sam begins to suspect that her visions may actually be prophesies that could cause catastrophe if they're not stopped. And he's the only one who believes her...so can he stop these disasters before it's too late. You see that dead guy by the side of the road? Yeah, the one lying in a pool of his own blood with his face all messed up and his clothes all torn and dirty. That's me. Sam Hopkins. And okay, I'm not really dead, or at least not completely. I've just been beaten up. A lot. Badly. Which I guess is a little bit better than dead...although when I think about how I'm going to have to explain this to my parents—frankly dead doesn't seem like such a bad alternative. Warning! There may be spoilers below this line.
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Review: Charlie West wakes up in a room, strapped to a chair, without a memory of where he is or how he got there. Outside the door, he can hear a man giving orders to kill him. He later figures out that he's lost a whole year of his life. He can't remember any of it. Now, terrorists are trying to kill him and the police are after him, charging him with the murder of his best friend, Alex and Charlie doesn't know where to turn. Without his memory, he's unable to prove his innocence, and even begins to doubt himself. Is he one of the good guys or one of the bad guys?
Warning! May be spoilers beyond this point! Forced to choose between military school and a Christian spy organization, Spencer Garmond chooses the spy organization, thinking it's some sort of Bible club. Before he even boards the plane to go on a mission's trip to Moscow, he can tell that it's not a normal Bible study. As time goes on he begins to have strange prophetic visions and gets mixed up with a gang of homeless boys, a mysterious tattoo and a suspicious woman and finds himself in the middle of a mess that he's not sure he can solve. Warning! May be spoilers beyond this point. Review:Miranda is in sixth grade when she begins to receive mysterious letters from an anonymous person. It says, "I am coming to safe your friend's life, and my own. I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter." Then the key for their apartment is stolen as well as a pair of shoes and Miranda keeps getting the notes. The person seems to be able to tell the future, listing clues in his note and then having them happen days later. She's beginning to believe that someone's life is in danger. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this point! Review: Rapunzel has SCIDs (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) and so, unable to go out into the world, for fear of germs that would make her sick and possibly kill her, she stays in a tower with only her mother to visit her. Her mother has forbade Rapunzel to use her computer for anything other than schoolwork, but one day, while searching for 'face' for a biology project, she comes across Facebook and makes an account. She "meets" a boy named Fane on her account and becomes friends with him by chatting with him online. When her mother goes out of town for a few days, she invites him over and they begin to find out that everything isn't as it seems in Rapunzel's home. Warning! There might be spoilers beyond this point. This is a retelling of Arabian Nights. Review: Shahrayar has been betrayed by his wife, who he loved. Hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. As his wife dies, she tells him that he will not find peace until he has found a woman who could read his heart and one whose he could read. His way of avoiding betrayal endangers every one of the maidens in his kingdom. One night of every month, by the light of the full moon, he will marry a maiden and the next morning she will die. But if a woman should step forward and volunteer to be his bride, he will kill her only and spare the lives of the rest of women. Shahrazad, the daughter of a great storyteller, steps forward to be his bride. She believes that it is her destiny to accept the risk and sacrifice herself, but she has a plan, in which she hopes to be able to see the king's heart. So, to buy time, on her wedding night, Shahrazad begins a story. The king, finding a need to know the end of it, lets her live, night after night. Just when Shahrazad dares to believe that she's found a way to keep her life, and an unexpected love, a treacherous plot disrupts her plan. Now she can only hope that love is enough to save her. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
Review: This is a fun mix of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood. Gen is a sensible, logical girl, while her brother Jack is the impulsive dreamer. Gen and Jack have grown up to their mother's stories about the World Above, a world in the clouds where she used to live. While Gen took them to just be bedtime stories, Jack took the literally and believed with his whole heart in the World Above. When the crops are failing, they are forced to sell Agapanthus, their cow. Jack goes to sell her and doesn't even get into town. Along the way he meets an old lady who sells him magic beans in trade for the cow. When he gets home, his mother rejoices, because she recognizes the beans and can finally go to her old home in the World Above where she used to be a duchess, before an evil man usurped the throne. Jack goes first to explore the world above, and he doesn't come back, so Gen goes after him and figures out that he's been captured. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this line.
Reapers: Review: Phoenix is a reaper, which means that, when a person dies, he takes their soul and transports them to their final resting place at the Gateway. He meets two other Reapers named Singapore and Shanghai and they start to suspect that the Gateway isn't all it's supposed to be. They're not sure if they are actually bringing the souls to a safe resting place, like they always tell the grieving family members. When a friend of Phoenix is accused of medicine smuggling and is taken to a labor camp, he decides to try and save them and find out what is really beyond the Gateway with his two friends. But can he trust them? Sing seems to be keeping secrets. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point. Review: Kelsey Hayes gets a two week summer job at the circus. While he was preforming, the white tiger seems to look straight at her. She can't shake the feeling that the tiger had some sort of intelligence. When she visits it after-hours, she begins to form a bond with the tiger, Ren. Something about him intrigues her. When she talks to her he seems to understand. When the tiger is bought from the circus, Kelsey is asked to escort the tiger and take care of it on it's way to India. When she finally gets to India, she figures out that this was more then she'd ever bargained for.
There may be spoilers beyond this point!!! Review: The Name of this Book is Secret is meant for younger readers, but that doesn't mean it's not a fun read for teens. The author says it better in the inner flap of the book, so I'll just quote him: You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story is, too. For it contains a secret--a big secret-- that has been tormenting people like you for over...oh no! Did I just mention the secret? Then it's too late.. ------------------------------------------------Cassandra and Max-Ernest are average eleven-year-old kids who go to the same school, but never really cared to talk to each other. That is until Cass finds a box called the Symphony of Smells that was supposedly found in a magician's house who died in a fire in the kitchen of that very house. Cass doesn't believe that the magician's really dead though, and goes with Max-Ernest to investigate his house. When she finds a secret room with the magician's diary, it launches her and Max-Ernest on an adventure, neither of them would have never dreamed of. Read the first part here: Warnings: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
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