Orca soundings

After the death of her sister, Tara struggles to deal with her guilt through slam poetry.

When Amy wakes up alone in an all-white windowless room after a party with her boyfriend, Eric, she must figure out a way to escape, to complicate things she has to follow the instructions in a bizarre letter from her kidnapper.

When Cameron arrives at an outdoor program for juvenile offenders, he regrets his choice, and he and Brianna, another resident, steal two kayaks to escape, just before a hurricane is due to hit.

When Mac begins saying goodbye to everyone she knows, Daniel becomes convinced he has to save her from hurting herself. Or worse.

Bex breaks into locked and abandoned buildings just because he can, but when a new friend's behavior becomes more and more risky, he has to do the right thing.

What starts out as a harmless road trip becomes a desperate search for the truth.

"The story focuses on Zack, a West Indian-Canadian teen living in Toronto who's a fan of true-crime shows and plans to become a detective. When his friend Ella Larson disappears, Zack can't let the police be the only ones investigating-especially because he knows something the police don't: Zack saw Ella with his guidance-counselor father at the mall and, later, getting into his car. Afraid to jeopardize his father's job, Zack withholds this information. Zack's dad refuses to talk to him about what he saw, his friend Ayo Mohammed thinks he needs to respect the confidentiality of his father's records, and they both think Zack should let the police handle everything. But his gut instinct says something terrible happened to Ella, and Zack's going to do everything he can to find out what it is even if he finds out something he didn't want to know"--Frompublisher.

"In the gay community, a young, husky man is known as a "cub" Seventeen-year-old Theo fits the definition perfectly, but he is very self-conscious about his body. So when his best friend signs him up for a cooking competition at Heat, the city's newest trendy restaurant, Theo is nervous. He's confident in his baking ability, and dreams of opening his own bakery one day, but he's not a chef, and he hates being in the spotlight. As Theo survives round after round, he gains the admiration of both the audience and the restaurant owner, a sexy celebrity chef known as KCC. When the owner makes it clear he is more interested in what Theo might do outside the kitchen, Theo has to decide how far he is willing to go to launch his career." --.

"A star football player who dreams of being a filmmaker agrees to be an exchange student's bodyguard"--Provided by publisher.

Tom struggles to give up street racing after killing his best friend in a race.