Young Adult Books

Screamcatcher: Web World by Christy J. Breedlove

About Screamcatcher: Web World by Christy J. Breedlove:

Christy J. Breedlove (Chris H. Stevenson), originally born in California, moved to Sylvania, Alabama in 2009. Her occupations have included newspaper editor/reporter, astronomer, federal police officer, housecleaner and part time surfer girl. She has been writing off and on for 36 years, having officially published books beginning in 1988. Today she writes in her favorite genre, Young Adult, but has published in multiple genres and categories. She was a finalist in the L. Ron. Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, and took the first place grand prize in a YA novel writing contest for The Girl They Sold to the Moon. Screamcatcher: Web World took first place in the N.N. Light YA book of the year contest in 2019. She writes the popular blog, Guerrilla Warfare for Writers (special weapons and tactics), hoping to inform and educate writers all over the world about the high points and pitfalls of publishing.

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Illusional Reality

About Illusional Reality:

Nobody expects to stare death in the face only to find out their entire life is a lie.
When marketing executive, Becky, is saved from near-death by Salco, she is taken to a magical world filled with peaceful people who are trying to forget their land is on the brink of destruction.

Becky discovers that her arrival is no accident and that she is Thya, heir to the enchanting land. As if that isn’t enough, she learns that an Oracle prophesied that she will save the gentle Tsinians from slavery and domination by Darthorn, the Warlord of Senx.
The Tsinian council and her kinsmen are certain that a union between Darthorn’s son, Kovon and Thya will create peace between the two lands. However, Darthorn has plans for Tsinia, as does Kovon for Thya, and neither are good.

Her future has been written and if she is to save Tsinia she must marry Kovon, but Thya gives her heart to another — a love that is both forbidden and dangerous.

Illusional Reality is a story about hope, courage, love, and sacrifice.

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NO TURNING BACK by HEMALATHA GNANASEKAR

About NO TURNING BACK by HEMALATHA GNANASEKAR:

Love never leaves.In India, Swaminathan is a gentle and loving husband to Shanthi. Determined to be a good man to her, Swaminathan is unfortunately subject to Shanthi’s domineering abuse. When their daughter is born, Swaminathan knows he must present a good example to her, despite his wife’s behavior.But Shanthi hurts their daughter whenever she’s mad at Swaminathan, and he can’t take it anymore. He decides to leave the house and his family. When he reaches Kanchipuram, a town famous for its temples, he meets a priest and asks him for a rented house. The priest also teaches him about the ways of the priesthood, and soon enough, Swaminathan himself becomes a priest. Six years later, a family friend named Ramanathan bumps into him and is determined to reunite Swaminathan with his family.No Turning Back is a thought-provoking look at marriage, love and the enduring power of family. In this compelling tale, pain and pleasure exist side by side. But no matter how far one man may stray, the love of his family will always be his guiding light.

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Chasing Forever Down

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When seventeen-year-old Haley Sullivan is dragged to a corporate party with her parents, she’s searching for one thing – the nearest exit. Instead, she finds a mysterious stranger who plays by his own rules and chases his own dreams, and he’s definitely cute enough to disappear with for the night. Convinced that he can help her escape the perfectly corporate future that’s been planned for her, Haley agrees to meet him the next day. However, Mr. Mysterious is a no show.

Determined to track him down, Haley enlists her best friend Linzi to help, but according to the local newspapers, the guy she met has been dead for years. Knowing he’s very much alive, Haley and Linzi follow clues on a scavenger-hunt-style road trip that ultimately lands them in the surf town of Crescent Cove, California, where her mystery guy is no mystery at all. He’s living as Colby Taylor, the west coast’s biggest professional surfer.

But talking to the surf star again is nearly impossible when he’s guarded by a hierarchy of beach bums who are determined to send Haley back to the east coast. Haley is up for the challenge of submerging herself in their world, from wild summer nights and beach parties to ocean air and secret kisses in the dark, but when the lines blur between the ocean and the shore, she isn’t so sure she’s here for Colby anymore. Sure, being thrown off a jet ski sucks, but falling in love with one of these California boys might just be worse.

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Paradise Rising By P.G. Shriver

About Paradise Rising By P.G. Shriver:

Teen Superhero, YA Fantasy

San Antonio, Texas. Thirteen-year-old Cheater isn’t sure how she ended up wanted for murder. Burdened with a power she doesn’t understand, that’s triggered by a creeping darkness she can’t remember, she’s both saved and taken lives. But when she makes a vigilante move to stop a mugging, she encounters a boy who might be the key to cracking the mystery of her strange gift.

Fifteen-year-old Jaz has survived too many tragedies to stay on the right side of the law. So when his small gang’s robbery gets interrupted by a teenaged fugitive, he’s perplexed by her act of heroism. And when he discovers they’re both connected to the same mysterious fairytale, he feels drawn to her quest for answers.

But with danger lurking around every corner and the police hot on their trail, they may not even make it past the city limits…

Can Cheater and Jaz discover why Fate linked them together before they land behind bars?

The Gifted Ones Quest for Paradise is the captivating first book in The Gifted Ones pre-superhero fantasy series. If you like smart heroines, gritty settings, and stories of hope, then you’ll love PG Shriver’s emotional tale.

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POTUS by Gretchen Elhassani

About POTUS by Gretchen Elhassani:

At the dinner table, Brittany’s little brother pulls out an old political campaign button he found on the playground. Considering a run for class president, Brittany buys it off him for five bucks. The pin is magic and when Brittany puts it on she wakes up to discover she has become President of the United States. As President, Brittany is forced to sit in on meetings with bankers, wear pantyhose and deal with the First Gentleman. But first there’s that tiny problem of being kidnapped and held for ransom

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Official Criminal Report Questions For Skull Creek Stakeout (Readers Are Leaders Book Reports 2) by Eddie Jones

About Official Criminal Report Questions For Skull Creek Stakeout (Readers Are Leaders Book Reports 2) by Eddie Jones:

Want to help teen sleuth Nick Caden solve a vampire murder in Transylvania, North Carolina? Complete this OFFICIAL CRIMINAL REPORT and see if you have the makings of a homicide detective.Writing a great book report can be a challenging assignment because it requires the reader to remember and analyze large amounts of information. Information like: the story’s main themes, its plot, character’s external problems and emotional issues. No worries! In this short ebook we provide all the prompts and questions necessary for you to complete your book report of Skull Creek Stakeout – amazon.com/dp/1946016969/.We have called this report: “Official Criminal Report Questions For Skull Creek Stakeout because Nick is a teen sleuth who solves murder cases by watching old TV cop and detective shows. With this easy-to-follow “homicide detective” worksheet, you can fill in the answers to the questions while you read. When finished, your book report should be thorough enough to convict a killer!Let’s get started.

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Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry by Jordan M Ehrlich

About Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry by Jordan M Ehrlich:

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A collection of mostly free verse poems written throughout the author’s adolescence and young adulthood. This is the familiar story of striving for progression, while continuously digressing. It is an attempt to show the struggle that we all face in growing: we move on, but not always forward, and not always in a straight line. In these pages are stories of unrequited love and sadness, as well as hopefulness, found truly only in One Source.
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“Wonderful, thought-provoking, soul-searching collection of poetry”
5 stars, Robin Leigh Morgan, Amazon Top Contributor

“Words to not only ‘read’ but also ‘feel’ as well.”
5 stars, Carrie Lowrance, Amazon

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Becoming

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It’s Thea Jameson’s seventeenth birthday. A day that should be the same as any other, that is until she finds out her whole life has been a lie. She wakes in the morning a normal girl, by evening she is thrust into a world full of magic, with people threatening everything she loves. Learning how to control all her new found power is one thing, but falling in love at the same time is something else altogether. Ryder, the tall gorgeous boy with amnesia, plants himself firmly in Thea’s way; making her new life so much more exciting. Even if it does put her in the path of more dangerous things! Can Thea master her new responsibilities and her love life without everything crashing down around her?

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Hermit Crab Cottage by Carrie Baker

About Hermit Crab Cottage by Carrie Baker:

The worst possible thing happened to Cara: her best friends dumped her! What’s she going to do when she starts high school in the fall?

When Cara gets publicly dumped by her four best friends, she decides not to tell her parents, even though they think her friends will be visiting them in Heron’s Point. Only her snotty little brother knows the truth and he’s threatening to tell. Cara must face tough decisions and realities as the party for her so-called “friends” nears. Join Cara in her emotional battle for friendship in Carrie Baker’s fourth return to Heron’s Point.

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When Darkness Begins by Tina O’Hailey

When Darkness Begins by Tina O'Hailey

If you could change time to save your first love—even if it meant turning your back on the universe—would you?

It is time for the Vechey youth to earn their place as time-guardians. The near-immortal Vechey protect the universe from the devastating Manipulators—devourers of souls, mindless seekers of chaos. First, the youth must survive a mysterious and deadly ritual created by the all-powerful clan leader Eterili. Having regenerated thousands of times with the birth of each universe, Eterili is taking this one as hers and bending all in it to her grand designs.

Catha’s time-slipping skills are underdeveloped. She is time-blind—unable to see through time, unable to protect herself from the ritual. The Vechey shun her for being different. Her parents ignore her as if she were already dead.

Aithagg loves Catha unconditionally and will do anything to save her. He tries desperately to unlock the ritual’s mysteries and find a way to help Catha survive with him. Or will saving Catha enable the Manipulators to destroy the universe?

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So What’s Next!: A School Corner To Save Wildlife. (So What! Series Book 2) by G J Griffiths

About So What’s Next!: A School Corner To Save Wildlife. (So What! Series Book 2) by G J Griffiths:

Molly Pearson is a young Biology teacher with two passions in her life: a strong commitment to protecting wildlife; and a desire to encourage the children in her classes to feel the same enthusiasm for Nature. In this book we find Molly Pearson, Robert Jeffrey’s student teacher, rewilding the school’s nature garden with the help of her Year 7 kids, against dramatic odds! Self-harming, arson, gang violence and teenage angst all seem to be teaming up as obstacles to block success from Molly and her class of 11 year-olds! When her class decide they would like to restore the school’s neglected and vandalised nature corner her hopes are raised and challenged at the same time. The hurdles that she meets along the way will include bullied and bullying pupils, as well as the expected ones of finance and willing manpower.But leaping those fences does not prepare the ambitious Molly for a dramatic fire and the confusion of a new passion in her life, in the form of Oliver Shrimpton. Will he become that significant someone, or is he just another obstacle for her to overcome?G J Griffiths’ latest novel, in the So What! series of stories, is still based firmly around the events that take place within the “walls” of Birch Green High School. It follows some of the trials and tribulations of Molly Pearson, a previous novice teacher who was mentored by Robert Jeffrey – the main character from the first book. Molly’s efforts to spread the important message, about protecting wildlife and the natural environment, reflect something that has always been important to the author. Although this book is an exciting novel telling the story of schoolchildren who want to protect garden wildlife, it also contains several chapters towards the end with plenty of helpful information for lovers of nature, and who want to take a fresh look at making their garden a wildlife garden.NOTE: All 3 books in the So What! series are now available in a single Trilogy collector’s edition – Paperback ISBN 978 1520380575 kindle ASIN B01579VDFO

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Blood Creek Witch (Blood Creek Series Book 1) by Jay Barnson

About Blood Creek Witch (Blood Creek Series Book 1) by Jay Barnson:

Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a monstrous evil rises, and the only one who can stand against it is a teen-aged witch who doesn’t believe in magic.Grieving and lost after the death of her parents, Jenny Morgan is sent to West Virginia to live with an aunt she’s never met. It’s there that Jenny is confronted with an unbelievable family heritage of witchcraft and magic – something she immediately dismisses as old-fashioned superstitions. However, once her new home is threatened by deadly horrors straight out of myth and folklore, her aunt’s stories become impossible to ignore.Now Jenny and her three new friends – friends with dark secrets all their own – are the only ones who stand a chance of stopping the growing evil, but only if Jenny can embrace her arcane heritage. But little does Jenny know, becoming a witch will attract the attention of an even greater evil – the same un-killable creature her parents died to protect her from.

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A Spirited Manor (O’Hare House Mysteries Book 1) by Kate Danley

About A Spirited Manor (O’Hare House Mysteries Book 1) by Kate Danley:

A grieving widow. A house with secrets. And an invitation to a seance…When Clara O’Hare’s husband passed away, she felt her life was over. But when she moves into a new home to escape the memories, she discovers that the veil between life and death is very thin indeed.Desperate to find answers, she attends a seance in a remote country home surrounded by a colorful cast of strangers. But something sinister has decided to make itself known. It will be up to her and the dashing young medium, Wesley Lowenherz, to find out what the spirits of the manor are dying to tell them.Laced with gothic romance and paranormal mystery, A Spirited Manor is book one in the YA O’Hare House Mystery penny dreadful series.

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War With Black Iris (Cyber Teen Project Book 2) by D. B. Goodin

About War With Black Iris (Cyber Teen Project Book 2) by D. B. Goodin:

Solving cryptographic puzzles is fun…unless the puzzle is designed to killyou.Nigel Watson is a clever teenage hacker who narrowly escaped with his life inWhite Hat Black Heart. Unable to speak, he must find a new way to thwart amysterious threat that is taking over the world’s computer infrastructure.Artificial intelligence has become self-aware…and determined people must die.A rogue billionaire attempts to save the life of his ailing grand-daughter bytransferring her consciousness into a healthy cyborg host. But, malfunctions within thecyborg’s system transform it into a sentient being capable of destroying humanity.Two hacking groups, the Collective and Black Iris, join forces with Nigel to fend offthe cyborg’s attacks. But, some of his friends are kidnapped and forced to workagainst him. When the authorities won’t heed his dire warnings, Nigel must make hisown plan for survival…or risk the collapse of society.In Book 2 of the Cyber Teen Project, Nigel faces the ultimate test: How do you beatan enemy that is infinitely smarter than you?If you’re a fan of Awaken Online, Ready Player One, or Warden you will loveWar with Black Iris. Get your copy today.

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The Temple Dancer’s Diary by Cristy L. Bowlin

About The Temple Dancer’s Diary by Cristy L. Bowlin:

Now that Katya Sparhardt has reached eighteen years of age, she is finally ready to be inducted into the dance ensemble at Trantonia’s Metapeet Temple. After years of training, she feels ready to devote her life to worshipping the Lord through her art even if it means making some personal sacrifices—no one at the temple may practice magic, get married, or have children. But she starts to question her choices when her best friend Amalia Tansy abruptly leaves the temple. Katya soon discovers secrets about herself and her own family history. As she starts to pay more attention to what’s happening outside temple walls, she also notices stirrings of unrest that threaten to restart a war between the neighboring nations of Trantonia and Scransee. Katya wants to follow her heart and do what’s right, but she feels herself pulled in different directions, especially when the handsome Matthias Cresswater wants to join the war effort.

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The Verindon Alliance by Lynne Stringer

About Featured Book: The Verindon Alliance by Lynne Stringer

As Princess Vashta of the Vendel finishes her combat training, she hopes she will lead their forces into battle against her race’s enemy, the Verindal. But when Brandonin, the heir to the Verindal throne, comes to see her father, it’s clear he desires peace, not war.
When the Vendel are attacked by a mysterious creature, Vashta’s people blame the Verindal. When Brandonin’s forces are attacked by the same creature, his people blame the Vendel. But could this danger come from somewhere new?
Vashta and Brandonin join forces, working together to try and stop this deadly enemy that threatens both their races, but can they defeat it on their own? Can they gather together a new force of both Vendel and Verindal to destroy this menace or will it mean the end of life on Verindon?

This YA book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

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Pressure & diabetes: Diseases of the Century by Dr.Rose White

About Pressure & diabetes: Diseases of the Century by Dr.Rose White:

This book reviews the diseases of the age, which are chronic diseases such as pressure and diabetes, in addition to mentioning the causes, symptoms and treatment methods.

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Lock Down

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My superpower? I can’t die. You can imagine how much it hurts when they test that out…

Phoebe Atkinson has always felt different, but in the typical angsty way most teenagers do. She had no idea just how different until that fateful day she died—and then came back to life.

It appears that sort of thing is frowned upon, because Phoebe awakens to find herself locked up in Leavenworth—a notorious prison that now holds teens with unusual supernatural abilities.

Behind bars, some are welcoming and others are… not. One group in particular seems determined to make the lives of Phoebe and her new friends as miserable as possible.

They call themselves the Wolf Pack. And they can just stay in jail and rot for all she cares.

Because even though Phoebe’s life before being imprisoned was far from perfect, she wants to get it back. And she will… if they don’t find a way to kill her first.

Regardless, she’s no longer going to stand by and be the rule follower she’s always been.

Look where that got her.

Lock Down is the first book in the Supernatural Prison trilogy, a near-apocalyptic Young Adult Urban Fantasy that is fantastically fresh and full of interesting characters,

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Elemental Dragons Book 1: Blood and Water by Jessica Turnbulld

About Elemental Dragons Book 1: Blood and Water by Jessica Turnbulld:

Not every dragon is born equal.

Being an elemental is hard.

Just ask Hazel Adams who at fifteen finds herself being sent off for the next step in her training where she will receive her dragon egg. But, the camp harbours many dangers in disguise, she will soon find out that not all dragons are born equal.

Soon Hazel, along with her new family and friends, will have to learn to navigate the shifting political alliances and social castes that come along with being an elemental. But, among the political turmoil an even greater danger lurks. One that hasn’t been seen in centuries.

Will Hazel be able to raise her dragon and prove that it’s more than meets the eye or will she be defeated by the dark forces working against her?

Find out in Blood and Water, the first book in a new YA fantasy series that is sure to keep you glued to every page.

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