novels

As Marcus prepares to try out for his middle school baseball team, he starts to doubt himself. He eventually learns to believe in himself, and that perfect games only come with lots of practice--and some strikeouts.

When Tom's family moves into a new home, he finds evidence of locks on the outside of his bedroom door and a message hidden under the wallpaper. The previous owners move in across the street and Tom strikes up a friendship with their daughter, Amy, to find out what happened in the house. He slowly begins to piece together the dark secret that Amy and her family are hiding, a secret they will do anything to keep hidden.

When Paloma and her family travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her father Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma decides to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. But everything changes when she meets Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S., a group whose members are the children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina's "Dirty War." Franco agrees to help Paloma, but as she digs into her father's past, she begins to wonder if the truth will come at much too high a cost.

When Tom's family moves into a new home, he finds evidence of locks on the outside of his bedroom door and a message hidden under the wallpaper. The previous owners move in across the street and Tom strikes up a friendship with their daughter, Amy, to find out what happened in the house. He slowly begins to piece together the dark secret that Amy and her family are hiding, a secret they will do anything to keep hidden.

Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.

In 1962 Chip Carter, son of a guard at Alcatraz, stumbles on to an escape plan and finds himself forced to aid the prisoners, because he is afraid that his father is somehow involved in the plot--and he needs to find out the truth.

When Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System, become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.

Burgeoning filmmaker Lamar spends his time honing his craft and learning about his grandfather's activism during the Civil Rights era. Shortly after deciding to do a video project on his grandfather's life, Lamar learns his grandfather was killed in an altercation with a White man, who is claiming self-defense. For the first time, Lamar experiences the racial injustice his grandfather talked about and uses his camera to keep his grandfather's legacy alive and continue his fight for justice.

Tatum Masterson did not go through the memory-erasing Program, but her longtime boyfriend Wes did, and like all Returners he came back to school a blank canvas. Tatum still loves him, and slowly the two start building a new love together--then Tatum learns of the Adjustment, a therapy that implants memories from a donor. Tatum can implant her memories of their time together before Wes lost his--but it isn't the same. Tatum will have decide if she can keep living a lie, or love Wes enough to let him go.

Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way.