Download or read book The Parallel Universe of Liars written by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin’s neighbor Frankie is like walking sex. He’s 23, hot, charming, and used to getting what he wants. When Janice, Robin’s stepmom, first meets Frankie, they lock eyes with an almost audible sizzle. Not long after, Robin discovers they’re having an affair. She is shocked, angry, curious, even jealous—but not really surprised. It’s just one more hurtful secret to be kept in this parallel universe of liars. Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, 15 and a self-described “chunk,” has a secret of her own—she can’t stay away from Frankie, either. But when a new guy ambles into her life, Robin must find a way to escape her own tangle of deception to capture something real.
Download or read book Parallel Universe of Liars written by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin's neighbor Frankie is like walking sex. He's 23, hot, charming, and used to getting what he wants. When Janice, Robin's stepmom, first meets Frankie, they lock eyes with an almost audible sizzle. Not long after, Robin discovers they're having an affair. She is shocked, angry, curious, even jealous--but not really surprised. It's just one more hurtful secret to be kept in this parallel universe of liars. Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, 15 and a self-described "chunk," has a secret of her own--she can't stay away from Frankie, either. But when a new guy ambles into her life, Robin must find a way to escape her own tangle of deception to capture something real.
Download or read book Gone written by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No more pity love for Connor, from aunts and neighbors, from missing mothers and fathers. From drunks. No, this time the real thing is his. He just has to take it. Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson, known for "riveting" fiction (Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Target), digs deep into the heart of a forbidden relationship in Gone. Sometimes, she tells us, loneliness can send a boy down a dangerous path. Sometimes, it can take a while to find the way back.
Download or read book All the Little Liars written by Victoria Selman and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told across two timelines and tapping into a horrific crime, All the Little Liars is a gripping novel about toxic friendship, the ripple effects of murder, and sisterly love that asks: how much would you sacrifice to belong? California 2003: Finn “Kat” Jackman is a 10-year-old girl living with her tween sister, father, and beloved housekeeper. When a 13-year-old girl disappears from a party at Turtle Lake, and the word LIAR written in blood is discovered on the trunk of a nearby tree, Kat’s life is turned upside down. What we know: Three teenagers went to the lake that night but only two came back. Later, they confess to murdering their friend. But why? And did they act alone? And what was the involvement of the mysterious and alluring Manson-like figure Ryder Grady? What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake?: You think you know. Think again.
Download or read book Parallel Lies written by Harry Dayle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreamshifter Jessica Kayne has come to terms with her incredible power — to cross between parallel worlds — by vowing never to interfere in other people's lives again. Yet when events at home take a strange turn, one that can only be explained by interference from another dimension, she is left with no choice but to use her gift to investigate other parallels, and the shady characters who inhabit them. In the gripping third instalment of the Dreamshifters series, Jessica's power is tested to the very limit, as she battles to save the people she loves the most from a hidden evil.
Download or read book Unraveling written by Michelle Baldini and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fifteen-year-old Amanda faces major life changes, her controlling mother is the last person she turns to, but she gains some sympathy as she begins to understand her mother's relationship with her best friend.
Download or read book The Noah Confessions written by Barbara Hall and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 16, it's standard procedure for every girl at Lynnie Russo's posh Los Angeles prep school to get a car. So on her 16th birthday, Lynnie is startled when she opens the small gift box from her father—it doesn't contain the shiny new set of keys she was expecting. Instead she finds a worn-out bird charm bracelet. What can he be thinking? When she cuts school to go try surfing so as to have a special day, instead of grounding her, her father hands her a manuscript box and says, "Your mother wanted you to have this when it seemed you were losing perspective. I think now's the time." Through "The Noah Confessions," Lynnie uncovers her family's secrets, loves, and tragedies, and comes to recognize that their past may not necessarily determine her future.
Download or read book Colibri written by Ann Cameron and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tzunún was little, her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish for “hummingbird.” At age four, Colibrí is kidnapped from her parents in Guatemala City and ever since she’s traveled with Uncle, the ex-soldier and wandering beggar, who renamed her Rosa. Uncle told Rosa that he looked for her parents, but never found them.
Download or read book A Fast and Brutal Wing written by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal justice: ruthless and swift. And totally satisfying.
Download or read book Eyes of the Emperor written by Graham Salisbury and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers. Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American soldiers on a secret mission to a small island off the coast of Mississippi. Here they are given a special job, one that only they can do. Eddy’s going to help train attack dogs. He’s going to be the bait.
Download or read book The Lightkeeper s Daughter written by Iain Lawrence and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Island–paradise to some, a stifling prison to others–brings an onslaught of memories. It is the place of Squid’s idyllic childhood, where she and her brother, Alastair, blossomed into precocious adolescents. But Lizzie Island is also the place where Alastair died. Now the past collides with the present as Squid’s homecoming unleashes bittersweet recollections, revelations, and accusations. But nothing is what it appears to be. No one possesses the complete truth, and no one is without blame. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book I Know it is Over written by C. K. Kelly Martin and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant.
Download or read book Zipped written by Laura McNeal and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering the truth. But before he can get to the bottom of it, Mick is confronted by a series of strange robberies and a close friend with a dark secret of her own. As he seeks out answers, Mick realizes that all of his problems are zipped up together—and he may have to go to drastic lengths to untangle them. “The McNeals spin a wonderfully rich story.”—Kirkus Reviews “A well-honed novel. . . . Readers will be sucked in.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life written by Dana Reinhardt and published by Ember. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can tell what really makes Simone different just by looking at her: she doesn't resemble anyone in her family. She's adopted. She's always known it, but she's never wanted to know anything about where she came from. She's happy with her family just as it is, thank you. Then one day, Rivka calls, and Simone learns who her mother was—a 16-year-old, just like Simone. Who is Rivka? What does she want? Why is she calling now, after all these years? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known and prompt her to question everything she has taken for granted about faith, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter.
Download or read book Girl Nearly 16 Absolute Torture written by Sue Limb and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when things were going so well. Jess had the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into one another’s eyes and engaging in witty repartee. It was going to be so romantic. And then her maddening mum stepped in: She suddenly announced a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess’s dad, something Jess might have enjoyed, actually, were it not for the monstrously bad timing. Not only will this force Jess and Fred apart for two whole weeks, it will also leave the darling and handsome Fred in the clutches of Jess’s blindingly beautiful best friend, Flora—who, you might recall, expressed an interest in Fred not too long ago. As if all this weren’t enough, Jess’s mum seems to expect her to weep at the grave of every departed literary hero in Britain’s long history. It’s absolute torture. And little does Jess know, a huge surprise awaits her when she visits her dad at his home for the first time in years.
Download or read book The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier and published by Ember. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974, and quickly became a bestselling—and provocative—classic for young adults. This chilling portrait of an all-boys prep school casts an unflinching eye on the pitfalls of conformity and corruption in our most elite cultural institutions. “Masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful.”—The New York Times Book Review “The characterizations of all the boys are superb.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Compellingly immediate. . . . Readers will respect the uncompromising ending.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
Download or read book The Hidden Reality written by Brian Greene and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows, ours may be just one universe among many, like endless reflections in a mirror. He takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds - from a multiverse where an infinite number of your doppelg ngers are reading this sentence, to vast oceans of bubble universes and even multiverses made of mathematics - showing just how much of reality's true nature may be hidden within them.
