family problems

High school senior Rooney Harris's life gets complicated when her mother loses her job and spends all her time with a cultish group who claim aliens will be arriving on November 17th to take believers to a new world paradise on an alien planet. Rooney does her best to keep herself, her younger brother--also a believer--and her mother intact, but as the deadline approaches, and their financial situation becomes more desperate, Rooney is faced with abandoning her own dreams to support her family, and keep her mother's mental illness from ruining all their futures.

"Seventeen-year-old Chamomile struggles to bring together her two universes of school, filled with the hype of senior year and future plans, and home, where her father is living with a terminal illness, until she meets a fellow student and hospital volunteer who helps her understand both worlds as one"--.

In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.

"Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined"--Provided by publisher.

When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.

"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--Provided by publisher.

"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--Provided by publisher.

Ten-year-old Libby Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.

Ben McKee desperately tries to find a way to get himself and his mother out of an abusive situation after his mom marries Larry Taylor.

"From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more"--Provided by publisher.