July 5, 2024
A high-adrenaline story of what it really means to man up. Seventeen-year-old Ren Adams feels lucky to be living with his brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie ― a welcome escape from his mother and her fundamentalist husband. Ren finally feels able to breathe, even if Levi and Ellie insist on trying to make him push his limits, live up to his potential ― “man up” … whatever that means. Ren does his best to keep up ― until Levi is killed in an avalanche on one of their follow-the-leader dares. Overcome with grief, Ren feels unmoored, while Ellie embraces […]
July 5, 2024
Thirteen-year-old Vincent has a very special talent: He can jump into paintings and move around inside them. When the painting The Thunderstorm by an old Dutch painter is stolen from a London mansion, Vincent decides to track it down. During his search, to his great surprise, he meets Holly, who can dive into paintings just like him. The two make a bet: Whoever finds The Thunderstorm first, wins. Vincent is sure he will be faster, but the search turns out to be difficult, and then something is wrong with Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. Why is it that when Vincent […]
July 5, 2024
Regent Academy had a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious–and even more entangled with the forest–than anyone would suspect. Seventeen-year-old Douglas wants nothing to do with Regent’s king-making; he’s just trying to forget his previous life and survive his present. But then a student is killed, and no one except Douglas and the groundskeeper’s son, Everett, remembers him ever existing. As Douglas begins to research what he finds […]
July 5, 2024
The company “Locked In Escape Rooms” is offering prize money for whoever can successfully escape the room. Four very different teenagers answer the call. But as the game begins, the room turns out to be stranger than expected, and they suspect someone might have ulterior motives in coming here. Can the teens overcome their prejudices and differences and trust one another in order to escape in time? This easy-to-read novel has short chapters, simple sentences and an accessible format to appeal to reluctant readers. It’s written at a second- to third-grade reading level for an interest level of ages […]
May 3, 2024
Kate doesn’t want to spend one minute in the “Hicksville” her mother moved them to. Zach, the boy who lives next door, tries to befriend Kate even though she ignores him. Then they find the crevasse on her grandfather’s property and the skeletons hidden inside. Kate and Zach start working together to solve the cold case that has silenced her mother for thirty-five years. Kate doesn’t want to be here; she’s been forced to leave behind an extensive Youtube following of her urban exploration videos, to move with her mom to what might as well be the end of the […]