When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich, friendless nerd Ambrose, forced to be home-schooled by his overprotective mother, coerces his neighbor Cosmo into taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where people accept him for who he is.
Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of humanity.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
Fifteen-year-old RD thinks that sliding through eighth grade will be even easier the second time around; girls, skipping class, and just waiting for the principal to accuse him of something. But what RD wasn’t counting on was his grandmother skipping town and being left completely and utterly - alone.
He awakes, blindfolded. He doesn’t know his name, where he is, or even who he is. But Happenstance, called Hap by his rescuer, Lord Umber, soon finds out that he has extraordinary powers, deadly enemies, and the fate of the world on his shoulders.
In one night, Jack’s life is changed forever. He’s only a toddler, but he escapes the grisly murderer who slays his entire family, wanders through the fog, and is rescued by the supernatural folks who live at a nearby graveyard. But this is just the beginning of the story, because Jack will not be safe until he grows up and faces those that still hunt him.
Petra awakes one morning to find her father returned to her . . . without his eyes. The Prince of Bohemia has taken them for reasons both sinister and selfish. As Petra bravely sets off for Prague, along with her magical tin spider, to get them back, she finds an ally in a gypsy boy with ghost fingers and discovers that she may also have hidden talents of her own.
Jason is in middle school. He posts the stories he writes online, gets nervous around girls, and loves computers; the typical middle schooler upon first glance. But Jason’s mind and his view of the world is anything but typical.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
