Your climate control is broken, the engine is overheating again, and the traffic has come to a dead stop amidst a swarm of horns. To top it off you're late for work. In a heartbeat, you find yourself in another place, another time. Just for a moment, your mind takes a break. Your subconscious decides to get out of the traffic and set sail along a coast of white sandy beaches and palm trees. Later that night, you wake with a jolt but don’t remember what startled you. Your thoughts are racin...

Avi charts the turning points in seven young lives in this extraordinary collection of short stories.In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. Now award-winning author Avi creates seven astonishing portraits of life in the middle-school years. In these stories you will meet, among others, William, of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?" who wonders why he shouldn't...

The acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—a cautionary tale as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs…It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the ...

"I dropped to the ground right there, sitting at the foot of his grave. There was nothing to be said. He was buried six feet beneath me. And I felt like my thoughts were buried there with him."A dark cloud has settled over March Howe's world. Avery's death was horrific on its own but it's also drudged up memories of her adoptive parents' deaths, none of which she seems to have dealt with. And the emotional pain is as bad, if not worse, than the physical kind she suffered in that si...

It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalizing Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'.As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love wit...

Offer your children the pleasure to discover wonderful bedtime stories!Thanks to this richly illustrated collection, share a nice moment with your family and discover a new bedtime story every night.EXCERPTFor her nephew Phil’s party, Poc the witch gave him a magic book. When Phil started to read it, the book began to shake in his hands. Then Phil saw the pages of the magic book flutter in the breeze. With a flash, Phil was sucked into the pages and...

6 Scary Halloween Stories for Teens!We challenge all teens to read these bone-chilling Halloween stories from the authors of The Gobbler! These tales of terror are aimed towards teen readers of any gender, and are quick and easy to read and enjoy. But beware! You might lose sleep if you read them alone just before you turn out the lights!Stories:Something under the bedJack the ManiacLarry's GhostMr. Mason's DogThe...

Once upon a time a grandfather loved his granddaughters, Elle and Erica, with all his heart. Every time he saw them he would grow soft and mushy inside, a secret feeling he valued greatly and kept close.One day he heard the older granddaughter, Elle, state that she was a fairy princess. For all the grandfather knew, she might well have been. Whenever she laughed or smiled, her blue eyes would twinkle and she would lift the grandfather's spirits as though by magic. He thought of her...

It’s a dream job — a chance to model the fabulous outfits designed by Jones & Hewens for their new Corduroy Rose label.For Sally, Tasha and Fay, it’s a way to end the summer on a high note before school begins. And it doesn’t hurt a bit that head designer Peter Hewens is stunningly handsome in a dark and brooding style.But a shadow has marred the glamour. A guest was killed during one of the showings at wealthy homes, and a series of thefts may be linked to the murder....

Sunny knew this was coming, but she never prepared herself to say good-bye foreverSunny's mom has stopped her cancer treatments, leaving the hospital to spend her final days at home. Sunny has been sleep deprived and kind of all over the place. She goes to school, but not to her classes. She talks to Dawn a little, but otherwise, her mind has been hijacked by thoughts of losing her mom. When a string of visitors comes through the door to say their good-byes, she fin...

New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."*When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family.Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.As August turn...