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2009
Living in a small beach community with her mother, fifteen-year-old Claire, an accomplished swimmer, discovers that, like her long-dead but, still very much present, grandmother, she has the ability to inhabit other people's bodies while asleep.

A monster calls

2015
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Saving Zasha

2013
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.

Breaking her fall

2003
A single father, enraged after hearing his fourteen-year-old daughter may have been taken advantage of at a party, attacks an innocent high school boy, costing the boy an eye, and finds himself facing charges that could cost him his children.

Hellhole

When Max Kilgore accidentally opens up a pit to hell while digging for fossils, he unleashes a loutish devil that begins living in Max's basement and makes endless demands for junk food and violent video games.

The dying breath

a forensic mystery
2013
Cameryn Mahoney is the assistant to the county coroner, so she's no stranger to death. But when it's possible that the next death under investigation might be your own, things take on a whole new meaning. Cameryn thought she was done with Kyle O'Neil after his first attempt to kill her in Angel of Death. But now he's back, and he's after her again.

The circle of blood

a forensic mystery
2013
As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

Survival strategies of the almost brave

Soon after their mother's sudden death in San Diego, Liberty, twelve, and Billie, eight, are abandoned at an Arizona gas station by the father they barely know and Liberty must find a way to keep them together and safe until either Dad returns or they can contact Julie, their mother's best friend.

Screaming at the ump

Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.

The last leaves falling

2016
In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease, finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.

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