Nick Geddes's life is a mess. His sister's boyfriend was killed in a school stabbing. His grandmother is decending into a world of her own, his mother has a 'god-slot' on local radio, and his father is drinking way too much. But that is nothing, because he is also crazy in love with Orla, the sister of the boy who has been killed, and she blames Nick! How can Nick make sense of this chaos, and look after his sister, and hopefully get lucky with Orla?
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever is the story of bonds of brotherhood, family loyalty, the transformative connection between man and horse, and forging a better future that comes ...
From critically acclaimed author Paul Volponi comes this discussable and finely wrought story of bullies, victims, and the bystanders caught in between.
“[A] strong, warm, and important coming-of-age story, seen through the eyes of an innocent boy trying to make sense of a racially violent world around him.” —Randall Platt, author of The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die An award-winning middle ...
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third.
Sixteen-year-old Camille's life as a slave in India was simple: she shucked corn, worked the fields, and slept in her stall each night.
on the brief: 'No – under no circumstances should a covert formula even be contemplated.' In a discussion of 'next steps' Parsons set out what proved to be Fraser's strategy (despite Peacock's 'No' next to the paragraph on the brief).
Each book in the Crossing the Lines series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order.
Danica Patrick's life moves at 220 mph. She drives every race and lives every day like she has something to prove—and she does.
Rather it's about the process of creation, a gradual undermining of the authority of the author as the act of writing spirals away and merges with the story being told, a self-referring narrative crossing over boundaries leaving in question ...
Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped as a child and trained as a North Korean spy, but the tables turn when she becomes a double agent for the very American spy organization she's been sent to destroy.