The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents one night and slammed into a secret prison for no reason they can comprehend. The New Order, [...]

Ethan Wate is struggling to hide his apathy for his high school “in” crowd in small town Gatlin, South Carolina, until he meets the determinedly “out” Lena Duchannes, the girl of his dreams (literally–she has been in his nightmares for months). What follows is a smart, modern fantasy–a tale of star-crossed lovers and a dark, [...]

Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who’s also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, “You are one of the missing.” The second one says, “Beware! They’re coming back to get you.” Jonah, Chip, [...]

In this companion to her acclaimed 2005 novel, A Dog’s Life, Ann M. Martin tells the parallel stories of a stray dog (the brother of the dog featured in A Dog’s Life), a boy dealing with unspeakable loss, and a boy whose most ardent wish is to own a dog—and everything for a dog. Bone [...]

“I think it’s probably safe to say, given when you should have landed, that you’re…um…” “Tell me!” “I think, right now, you’re the king of England.” Thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they’re both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period. Before they can fully absorb this revelation, [...]

Although I am long past the young adult age, I loved this book. Jane Smiley is one of my favorite authors and my favorite of her books is “Horse Heaven”. I think others who liked “Horse Heaven” will also like this, whatever their age. The main character (and narrator) is young and aside from the [...]

this book is the sequel to swindle, it is about the same group of kids, this time it involves a monkey, a trained attack owl and a plan, Savannah Drysdales monkey, Cleopatra is kidnapped from her back yard with a banana and then at schoool they go on a field trip at schoool and they [...]

It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork, it’s just that she doesn’t like doing it. And that means she’s pretty much failing sixth grade. When a warning letter is sent home, Abby realizes that all her slacking off could cause her to be held back — for real! Unless she wants to repeat [...]

“Pop” by Gordon Korman is a great, realistic, fiction book that will have you hooked in the first five pages. One of the main characters, Marcus Jordan, moves to a new town during the summer and spends his time alone in Three Alarm Park practicing his football passes to get ready for tryouts. His summer [...]

Twelve-year-old Lidie has spent the past several years imagining what life in America would be like. Her father and older brother, Rafael, have lived in America ever since her mother died when Lidie was seven. Although they left for New York after the incident, Lidie stayed behind in Brazil with her aunt and uncle, waiting [...]