Brett Gerson, raised in a world of privilege, learns some valuable life lessons when he is forced by his father's arrest for insider trading to take a job as an assistant to a seventy-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood.
Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists and murdering anyone who gets in his way, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister once again travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for the mysterious Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a elderly pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons. Includes a sixteen-page reader's guide.
Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.
The love-hate relationship between high school musician Will and his older brother Jason is fueled by the abuse Will suffers at Jason's hands, but a devastating accident changes everything for the boys and their family.
The love-hate relationship between high school musician Will and his older brother Jason is fueled by the abuse Will suffers at Jason's hands, but a devastating accident changes everything for the boys and their family.
Evan's father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, so high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
In 2017, human-eating aliens have kidnapped two scientists who might cure the disease that is destroying them, and twelve-year-old William Aitkin, his elderly, ailing Uncle Maynard, and the scientists' daughter, Sophie, set out to rescue them.