" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...

"Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The moonshiner's daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family's past"--Provided by publisher.

A historical novel about the author's great-aunt Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher, who, after being raped and apparently killed at the age of sixteen, rises from the dead with the power to heal others, causing uproar among the church's and the government's most powerful as the country inches toward revolution.

Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...

When her investigation into missing people and pets puts those she loves in danger, high school senior Faith Herbert is forced to confront her hidden past and use her newfound abilities, risking everything to save her friends and town.

No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is spontaneous,...

Emily Shepard is a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers...

High school English teacher Sandy Crosbie regrets moving to the small town of Torrance, Florida, from Rochester, New York, when her husband promptly leaves her for the local woman with whom he has been having an online affair--but things get worse when the town's secret scandals and brutality start to surface, two teenage girls turn up dead, and the killer targets Sandy's beautiful daughter.

When contestants in an escape room challenge start getting killed, seventeen-year-old Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive.