violence

When a bomb is found in her school, AP student and perfect daughter Gabi is invited to work on the crisis hotline, a position that draws her into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the bomber.

No one understands why Tori has become so moody and violent, so when she punches a stranger at the mall she is ordered into community service, where she meets a little girl who changes her perspective on speaking up instead of lashing out.

In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys--Mr. Furrington, Jesus Christ, and Scowler--to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.

Explores the decline of religious self-identification in America and the perception of faith as a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness.

When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

Explores the issues surrounding methamphetamine by placing opinions from a wide range of sources.

April 21, 2008, is when everything changes for Steven "Crash" Crashinsky. This is the date he stops his friend David "Burn" Burnett from detonating bombs in their school. Crash becomes a hero; Burn goes to prison. The one thing no one knows--until now, with Crash writing his own story--is what Burn whispered to him moments before Crash tackled Burn to stop him from getting his guns or pressing the detonation button. The answer to what was whispered requires a story of Crash and Burn from the school year before.

Sam Wentworth is surprised to be welcomed by the football players at his new school just because they play the same online video game, but then his new friends are drawn in, and can't stop playing, even when the results are not good.

Cuzzy Gage has spent all of his eighteen years in the remote mountain town where he was born and raised, content to hang out with his friends and just get by, until he develops a friendship with an English teacher who has moved to the area to escape the death of his best friend.