May 3, 2024
What happens when a smart toy gets a little too smart? Victor is thrilled to get the toy he’s always wanted for Christmas. It’s a LenBot―a smart robot that can learn anything. For once, it’s a toy that lives up to the hype. The robot really does become Victor’s best friend. But before long the robot starts learning more than Victor has taught it and acting very strangely. Victor knows LenBot is smart, but a toy robot couldn’t be cruel. It can’t kill… can it? This delightful read is “thriller lite,” as in horror on training wheels. Told in first […]
May 3, 2024
In the real world, Leon isn’t built to be a hero, but he must become one when he gets trapped in a cutting-edge virtual-reality game. Twelve-year-old Leon loves video games. When he plays, he feels confident and amazing for just a little while. The rest of the time he feels like a loser. So Leon is shocked when Nico, the coolest kid ever and the son of a video-game developer, invites him over to test out the newest game at his dad’s high-tech lab. To play, they must submerge themselves in giant tanks filled with nanobots, which are programmed to […]
May 3, 2024
The near future is progressively free from discrimination based on race, class and sexual orientation. But in a world populated by the gifted, fifteen-year-old Alejandro Aragon (Alé) is part of the only remaining minority – he’s a Deficient. Powerless. The one that accelerated genetics left behind. Ale knows that he’ll need a miracle to graduate and pursue his dream of a legal career in the capital. His only ally is his best friend Yalamba, an outspoken and exceptionally gifted artist renowned for her unique ability to draw things into existence. But when she’s kidnapped in a hate crime against her […]
March 1, 2024
Matt has grown up skipping from town to town alongside his father, hunting anyone whose soul the devil has marked. They have one purpose: Find these people, and exterminate them. But when Matt starts to fall for Rae, to make friends for the first time in his life, he’s not sure who or what to believe anymore. How can someone like Rae, someone who is thoughtful and smart and kind, be an agent of the devil? With the lines of reality and fantasy, myth and paranoia blurred, Matt confronts an awful truth: What if the devil’s mark doesn’t exist? […]
March 1, 2024
After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love. Jude just wants to draw comics, work at his parents’ vinyl record store and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, his art is being published. He helps his friend’s song become a finalist in a songwriting competition. And he wins a pair of coveted concert tickets he can use to ask out the popular girl he’s been crushing on. […]