This is the story of Alcatraz Smedry, a thirteen year old foster child with a talent for breaking things. On his thirteenth birthday he receives a bag of sand in the mail, but the sand is soon stolen by evil librarians bent on world domination. Alcatraz must team up with his long lost grandfather to recover the sand and uncover his destiny, before evil librarians take over the world. (WARNING: This book claims to be a true story, but it is not! It is a work of fiction. Librarians are NOT trying to conquer the world!) John S.
Kendra signs up to participate in a reality TV show after getting tired of her banker parents, who want to turn her into a younger version of themselves. She ends up swapping lives with a hippie family from California who are all about saving the otters. Fortunately for her, her host family has a handsome son she immediately falls for head over heels. Drama abounds in this story as the pushy producer Judy tries to get Kendra to divorce her parents, among other cooked up schemes, to raise ratings for the TV show. Sky K.
Matt comes home for the holidays to discover that his dad has been kidnapped because of a secret project he has been working on. After discovering a letter in secret code that his dad left him before he was kidnapped, Matt gets caught up in an exciting adventure to rescue his dad and to uncover the archaeological find of the century. Whoever unlocks the secrets behind this old disc will have the power to rule the world. Will Matt find his dad and will he keep the secret of the disc before it falls into the wrong hands? Find out by reading the amazing story of The Chaos Code. Sky K.
In this dark and gripping tale about two brothers trying to lay their sister to rest, Brooks is at his morose best. Set against a bleak, gray backdrop of the English moors and peopled with characters that are both strange and depressingly hopeless, the writing is so vivid that it's easy to imagine this being made into a film along the lines of "No Country for Old Men." Claudia O.
South Africa's answer to The Catcher in the Rye, Spud is the journal of John "Spud" Milton, a 13-year-old who won a scholarship to an elite all-boys boarding school. In his first year, he charts his most embarrassing moments, the most outrageous stories and pranks in the school, as well as the antics of sometimes quirky, sometimes flat-out crazy classmates, teachers and parents. Claudia O.
