Young Adult Authors

It all started at our small private school, Hidden Shores Academy, on the first day. The new kid was texting as he came down the stairs. His longboard slipped out of his fingers, smacking me right in the face. Of course, he ended up in almost all my classes. No matter what I do, he keeps finding ways to talk to me. But I’m not interested in him. I’m trying to stay focused on my position as head editor of my high school’s newspaper. I have dreams to chase. I’m applying for a journalism scholarship. I don’t have time for a know-it-all boy like Justin.

Lissa is obsessed with Ancestral, the latest and greatest battle arena co-op game out there—and she's really good at it. If she wants to get to the top, she will have to band together with her best friend Ji-Soo—and their friends Ray, Zio, Jae-Jin, and Lucas—to become Team Phoenix. With the support of former pro Esport-player, Devon, Team Phoenix trains day and night for the upcoming Regional Championships.

The primary goal of this course is to expand the students' vocabulary, improve their understanding of word usage, and develop their ability to decipher complex texts. By the end of the course, students should be able to confidently tackle the verbal sections of various standardized tests and enhance their overall language proficiency.

In Shadows Amongst Roots, the eighth book of the Orisha series, alliances forged in secrecy face their greatest test as former palace servants navigate love, deception, and power struggles. While Efuna wrestles with the hidden truth of a royal heir, High Priestess Tengdana reveals her far-reaching control and Palola’s true identity. Amidst political intrigue and personal desires, characters must confront their pasts while King Olufe’s insatiable thirst for dominance threatens to unravel the delicate balance of the kingdom. In the shadows of the palace, deep-rooted secrets surface, ...

Asher has a secret. A secret that, if the ever-watchful government or vigilantes find out, would kill him. Living in the secluded Willow Wood manor has kept him away from prying eyes for 16 years, but one night, everything changes. When his safe haven is compromised, Asher must seek out his father for the first time and find a way to hide in plain sight onboard a junior academy starship. Asher has to deal with his past while forming an unexpected future among the stars and ensuring that no one finds out who...or what...he is.

Everything about my new supernatural life is going up in flames. My best friends are acting super weird. I thought it was because my boyfriend moved to town, but now I'm not so sure. And worse yet, all around town, the dead are rising. Rumors are swirling at school that my boyfriend and I are the ones raising zombies - er, revenants. And, I'm beginning to worry that they might be right. I mean, I am pretty new at this whole "raise the dead" business.

In a universe governed by a continuous cycle of reincarnation, death and time are no match for sorcerers Eva and Tir or their committed, queer love. But while Eva takes a hard-earned rest between lives, a villainous Edward plots revenge and sets out to destroy the universe.

Skylar, Mason, and the other descendants embark a deadly quest to the underworld to confront the evil Hades, who has been plotting to kill off the descendants of all the gods. On this journey, they soon discover that the ancient gods are not dead as once believed but are held captive in a secret location. In order to save the world from destruction at the hands of Hephaestus, the descendants must set out on a crusade to rescue the gods.

Seventeen-year-old Liv Larson's world came crashing down around her six months before Solar Storm Icarus devastated the rest of the planet. Suddenly orphaned, and with all of her carefully constructed plans laid to ruin, Liv must now make a decision that could change everything. Will she give in to her grief, or will she fight for what is left of her family, her friendships, and a future that once existed... Before the Sky Fell?

Izzie loves nothing more than her three best friends - Viv, Graham, and Harry - and the bond the four of them share. And she's terrified of their friendship falling apart next year when they go off to college. To bind them together, she decides to create something that will belong only to them, a special thing that they'll always share between the four of them. And so they dream up the Order of IV, a secret society devoted to mischief that rights wrongs and pays back debts.

I would like to acknowledge your desire to blast acne. My goal is to provide you with the tools and understanding for you to be able to seek professional skin care treatments and manage your home care program. After completion of this audiobook you will have learned several options that will help to improve your skin condition.

Merlin the wizard is a good-looking, but very well-disguised woman. She's also ambitious and becomes Arthur's mentor, falling in love with him. It's reciprocated, and they elope, leaving the wizard's cave to Tertia, Unita, and Marlene (Merlin's apprentices and her sister). They start a detective agency, however bored with the lack of fifth century crime, they start up the Temporal Detective Agency and use Merlin's time portal to move from Camelot to the 21st century, where the cases are better.

When Brian Bradford's teenage daughter starts undergoing a strange transformation, it begins a journey for the both of them as Brian not only meets God and the devil, but also learns who he is and why his daughter is changing. What happens will change their lives forever. He also realizes that if you truly love someone, maybe the best thing that you can do is to let them go.

Twenty-two-year old Boone Daniels has problems, debilitating panic attack, gut-wrenching guilt, a wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost killed his best friend in a joust. But when he fills in for his injured friend at a New York gig, he goes to meet the gig’s contact at his NYC brownstone. A body falls from the brownstone balcony and the place explodes with gun fire. Boone barely escapes but uncovers a sinister plot to perform a rare Paganini piece that summons the Devil to trap Baba Yaga and destroy modern-day New York City.

From the bestselling author of The Mouse That Roared comes a witty tale of a leprechaun in New York. Timothy Patrick Fergus Kevin Sean Desmond McGillicuddy (for short) is a leprechaun diplomat on a mission to convince the President of the United States to halt the construction of a new U.S.-owned airport on a tract of Little People land in Ireland. With the belief “mischief is me nature” and the help of a 10-year-old American boy, he proves wee folk a big force to be reckoned with. This special 60th Anniversary edition features a new introduction by journalist and author Quentin ...

Learn how to create and tell spellbinding oral stories for the special children in your life with The Storyteller's Kit Box. Children’s author and story weaver Judy Hubbard shows how easy it is to build magical stories using a simple four-step approach - character, setting, action, and resolution - and an armada of great story themes. The Storyteller’s Kit Box provides helpful tips on story delivery, instructions for creating props bags and story boxes...and sample stories to get you started.

What if you and your spouse have been kidnapped? The kidnappers have committed a murder right in front of you, in your own home? What if a person died while trying to defend you? What would you do? These are the questions that community role model Charles Champion must resolve. Before the incident, Charles, the protagonist of the story, was able to live out his dreams at a young age, despite the many discouraging situations that surrounded his life. Growing up in the ghetto was a struggle, but having a mother in and out of jail was not easy for him to deal with.

When Talan enters the city of his dreams ... will the cost be too terrible to pay? Talan is a homeless boy who lives by his speed and wits, but what he wants more than anything is to get into the mythical City of Glass. Always aglow and tantalizing, yet shut off from the world, it is a city of secrets and diamond-dusted dreams in Talan’s unbridled imagination. But once inside, he discovers that beauty can be deceiving. He will learn lessons of pain, hatred, love, and leadership before he can harness the power to free himself and the other lost children from their glittering prison.

Their lives were forever changed when a widow with seven children, married a widower with seven children. Three step sibling marriages are arranged to benefit from a dowry that was doubled by their filial unions. The way in which their lives intertwine is the grist for Twisted Trees. It is a story of one man's ambition to rise above the oppressive class system, where men were judged by their heritage and not their ability; where women often endured loveless marriages rather than face the stigma of divorce.

The Forgotten Melody is a fictional short story of Liam, a gifted musician. His rise to fame led him down a path of pride and selfishness. This path caused him to abandon his loving wife and young daughter. Yet, fate intervenes when a song he had composed long ago but never published unexpectedly brings them back together. This forgotten melody is brimming with emotion. It carries the echoes of a love he had once cherished. It becomes the bridge that mends their fractured bond. Liam is overcome with remorse and a longing to make amends. With patience and effort, he and his daughter ...