Thirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA Icons Created by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection. A trove of unforgettable fiction makes up the beating heart of this book, and the accompanying essays offer an ode to young adult literature, as well as practical advice to writers. Featured in print for the first time, the thirteen stories anthologized here were originally released via the buzzed-about online platform Foreshadow. Ranging from contemporary romance to mind-bending fantasy, the Foreshadow stories showcase underrepresented voices and highlight the beauty and power of YA fiction. Each piece is selected and introduced by a YA luminary, among them Gayle Forman, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds, and Sabaa Tahir. What makes these memorable stories tick? What sparked them? How do authors build a... Views: 62
Sometimes love...can drive you
crazy.Adelaide Carmichael and Damien Allen couldn't be more
opposite.Adelaide's mother abandoned her when she was ten years old,
leaving her to be raised by her abusive and alcoholic father.Damien on
the other hand came from a wealthy family, was a local celebrity, and seemed to
have a bright future ahead of him.Despite their differences, Adelaide
and Damien were young, wild, and fiercely in love.And they had a
plan.They were going to run away.Be together forever.And
their plan was set in motion, until tragedy struck and for some reason, Adelaide
wound up in The Oakhill Institution for the insane.Adelaide has no idea
what she did to wind up at Oakhill, but she knows one thing for
sure...She wants out.And after Damien follows her there to aid
her in escaping, Adelaide slowly begins putting together the pieces of her
memory that are missing.And it doesn't take Adelaide long to figure out
that sometimes...That one true love never
dies.Excerpt~Shoving my feet off the side of the bed, new
surroundings burn my eyes. Tan plaster walls instead of thick white padded ones.
One oblong barred window. Two dressers. Two closets. Two beds.They've
moved me to a different room.A gentle squeaking noise bounces off the
walls and my eyes avert to my right. Oh crap. They put me in a room with a nut
job. They say I'm a nut job. But not like this. Not even
close.She rocks back and forth on her cot, knees to her chest, twisting
a piece of her wiry, red hair between her fingertips. Her freckled arms are
trembling. She sings with vibrato.I am slowly going crazy. One. Two.
Three. Four. Five. Six.Switch.Crazy going slowly am I. One. Two.
Three. Four. Five. Six.Switch.I think about screaming again. I
think about plugging my ears. Somebody turn her off. She lifts her head
slowly, a maddening look in her big, brown eyes, an eerie smile crawling across
her pale, freckled lips. “Shh,” she whispers. “They're coming for
us.”“Who's they?”She shakes her head and lets out a cackle laced
with the deepest kind of crazy. I think they put her in here with me purposely.
They're trying to break me. They think if they put me around truly insane people
that I'll accept my place here. Well...They are wrong ... Views: 62
Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson’s best book ever. Total For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write. World All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it’s too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson’s ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from “One of the best of the best.” ( TIME ) Views: 62
Sophie Jordan’s breathtaking digital original novella set in the world of Firelight.For Az, it’s supposed to be a fun summer vacation with her family. Nothing complicated. Just a quick trip to test the waters as she prepares for a year on her own. That all changes when she rescues a drowning girl and meets Tate—the most gorgeous human boy she’s ever seen. Tate throws her heart, her plans, and her life into upheaval, but the closer she gets to him, the harder it is to hide the secret of what she is.With no hope for a future together, the last thing that can ever happen … is love.This stand-alone digital original is perfect for those new to the Firelight series as well as veteran fans. Views: 62
The prehistoric saga continues as Zan-Gah and his disturbed twin brother, Dael, come into conflict. When their clan migrates to a new Beautiful Country, Dael's furious violence, joined with the magnetic power of his personality, precipitates division and an unwanted, preventable war. Zan's task is to restrain his brother's destructive and self-destructive tendencies, leading him to peace and recovery in the bountiful new land. But it is not to be, despite Zan's efforts and those of two strong female characters. This book features themes of war and peace, tribal conflict, traumatic stress, gender roles, and sibling rivalry, bereavement, redemption. Views: 62
Zan-Gah, seeking his lost twin brother in a savage prehistoric world, encounters adventure, suffering, conflict, captivity, and final victory. In three years hero passes from an uncertain boyhood to a tried and proven manhood and a position of leadership among his people. Themes include survival, brotherhood, cultures, gender roles, psychological trauma, and nature's wonders and terrors. This is the electronic version of Zan-Gah: A Prehistoric Adventure, which has been awarded Mom's Choice Gold Medal for Series, the Eric Hoffer Notable Book Award, and was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year. Views: 62
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s second book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can’t fail to make you laugh out loud. What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? • It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex God…• I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering up…• I tried snogging the back of my hand, but it's no good…• It's been over a week. I wonder if it's my nose…• I have a HUGE nose that means I have to live for ever in the Ugly Home. Views: 62
Elizabeth and her brother live on a farm for a summer—and learn a whole new way of living and dreaming Elizabeth likes to invent stories. When she travels to her uncle's farm for a summer, she starts by making up new names for herself and her younger brother: "Geeder" and "Toeboy." As "Geeder" explores the farm on her own and with her brother, she encounters mysteries that capture her imagination, among them a tall, proud woman who looks just like an African queen that Elizabeth has read about in a magazine. Elizabeth spins tales about the people and places around her, but she comes to realize that sometimes the truth is more interesting than make-believe. Views: 62
Ever since V's mom dumped her with her grandparents, she's bounced from guy to guy. That is, until a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond, who is different from the start. But V makes an irreversible mistake at her graduation party and risks losing Sam forever, spurring her on a cross-country road trip to visit her mom in hopes of putting two thousand miles between herself, Sam, and the wreckage of that night. With humor and compassion, Carolyn Mackler takes readers on an unforgettable ride of missed exits, misadventures, and the kind of epiphanies that come only when you're on a route you've never taken before. Views: 62
SUMMARY: Longing to experience the life of a "normal" teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school. Views: 62
