Writing Young Adult

In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks - none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the 20th century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding.

After escaping the servitude he suffered while being imprisoned in heaven, Apius—an ancient evil entity—calls out to Peter Nichols from beyond the grave. It was this “child” who thwarted Apius’s plan for revenge as he sought out the destruction of humanity for the last several centuries. But Peter now owes Apius a blood-debt. Collecting on this debt, Apius captures the soul of Peter’s mother, hoping to draw him near. Once he rids himself of Peter, he can then move to release his brothers from their guarded sarcophaguses and wipe away the scourge of mankind. However, fifteen-year...

"The breathless, spellbinding saga of Cara Wynters continues to the delight of her growing fan base." –BestThrillers.com It's a strange thing to wake up dead, knowing you are standing in the center of unchangeable destiny-strange, yet acceptable. When the moment holds the death of someone you love-that's where the rules of destiny deserve to be broken. Cara Wynter read a book that told her stories of another place, a forgotten time. As she read, she remembered the man she loved-the dark stranger in her dreams, re-lived her own death in his arms. Now, he is in front of her, wanting her, ...

Like many of us, Maggie is navigating her path through a complex world—except, her world is the stream. Having lost her home to changes in the current, Maggie, a mayfly, is searching the stream for the richest of foods with which to nourish her brief flight in the world of air. But the stream, with its ever-changing currents, seems a confusing array of possibilities. Where are the richest of foods? How might she find them? And what are the qualities that makes one’s forage truly rich? As Maggie travels the stream, she meets other streamlings—some malevolent, some benign—who offer ...

If you aren’t suffering, you aren’t creating. Right? Wrong! Writing can and should be joyful, fulfilling… even fun! Applicable to writers in all genres and disciplines—from screenwriters to novelists, journalists to picture book authors, aspiring to many-times published—The Happy Writer is a heartfelt and optimistic guide that will show you the way to a happier writing journey.

Lord of the Rings meets Clueless for an adventure with attitude. Sometimes it’s your destiny to change your fate. A werewolf is wooing Imani. Jalen doesn’t know what a Jodian is, but he’s it. Annora and Honor are “joined” to beings from another realm. Maldonus has kidnapped Travon. And, the cell phones are doing wonky things. The Lossmans have a problem. Trill must protect his brother’s murderer. Loathel’s immortality is a curse. If Medrid does not stop Maldonus, it could be bad. If he does, it might be worse. And, abject evil is waiting to be unleashed. According to the ...

In this third and final book of the series, a terrible tragedy has befallen the witches of Tanglewood. They have lost one of their most beloved family members. Racked with grief, Nat jumps into The Goddess Stories book to find her in his own history and bring her back to the world. The problem is that Nat has not returned. With the absence of the goddess, a terrible storm has taken over. It is a force greater than anything Camille can manage, and it threatens to destroy their world. Natalie, his anchor child, has no choice but to go after Nat and bring him home. She travels through time, ...

Aurora, a recent arrival, quickly becomes entwined with three teenagers: Harriet, whose father owns a local bookstore rich with history of the town; Silas, whose grandmother operates a quirky kite shop known as Cloud Writers; and Ashby, a boy reeling from the recent death of his father.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is known for creating vivid characters and harrowing plots. After five award-winning works of historical fiction and countless hours of meticulous research, she can affirm that the secret to strong writing is embedded within your life experience. You: The Story is a powerful how-to book for aspiring writers that encourages you to look inward and excavate your own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page.

I’d kill to be the kind of dancer my mom wants me to be, but it’s just not in the cards. I’m sick of dieting. I'll never fit into the perfect ballerina mold, and I’m tired of wishing that I could. I’m over it. I’m done trying. I’m perfectly content to dance alone in the dark while the rest of the school is sleeping.

Apius is gone, but his legacy lives on with a brother's promise. Because of this promise, humanity is on the verge of extinction. Famine has swept across the globe as a mysterious pathogen is destroying the world's food supply. Even though agroterrorism is suspected, FBI Special Agent Peter Nichols knows there is much more to this. Haunted by his long-forgotten past, he hunts for answers — answers hidden deep below an ancient Ceiba tree in the heart of Mexico. Here, protected by a deadly maze of tunnels, is a mythical temple. According to legend, this temple serves as a gateway to the ...

It is my passion to share the art of storytelling with the next generation, teaching them important aspects through fun games—learning, while they didn’t realise they are learning. I launched an after school club teaching this craft. It has been an enormous success. This book is the product of one activity from the club. A Collection of Clever, Fun, Short Stories Inspired by Children Learning the Craft of Storytelling. T. P. Heath is a screenwriter and author of over twenty novels, mostly thrillers under the name Tim Heath, and the author of the Twiggy Rattlesnake series.

In the quiet halls of a small-town community college, five ordinary students find their lives forever altered. When a mysterious system event thrusts them into a galaxy-wide tournament, they must rise to the challenge.

Ever since their mother's disappearance, Aiden and Noah, 13-year-old twins, have been moving from place to place with their detective father, Roger Raven. While Aiden is not too happy about it, Noah sees it as an opportunity to meet new friends. That is, until they arrive in the town of Herisdell for their father's work, a seeming ghost town where its almost always raining. The boys soon find themselves wrapped up in the mysteries of the town including the disappearances of the residents, a boy at school who seems to have a connection to one of the missing people and the strange girl who ...

To some, Lily was just a beautiful little girl. To others, she was a freakish albino who ate live chickens in a freak show. Charles Darwin called her his impossible girl and tried in vain to classify her. P. T. Barnum called her his angel and tried to take advantage of her. But the creature Barnum thought to turn into a money-making feature attraction is neither girl nor angel. She is something other, a species of unimaginable abilities, with the power to destroy—or save —our world. The power is hers alone, but only the strange blood coursing through her veins will decide when and how ...

Recent college graduate Alice Burton typically has a Plan A, B, and C. But now that her decisions have real consequences, she’s feeling the delayed after-effects of the night her life was rocked by twin disasters—an injured father and a serious betrayal. Eager to start her “real life” somewhere other than her sleepy college town, she’s laser-focused on a prestigious fellowship in New York City, but her acceptance hasn’t arrived yet and she hasn’t bothered with a back-up plan. Meanwhile, her father assumes she’ll come home to Pittsburgh to work for him—something she’s ...

"Canyon Cathedral will pull you in quickly, tug at the heart and leave you excited with the ending. Well done on another winner!" –Janet Shawgo, award-winning author of Archidamus This sequel to the award-winning novel, Manufactured Witches, picks up the story of Nat after he's been gifted with the limitless power of the goddess. Magic this dangerous is difficult for Nat to control, and he finds himself alone, ostracized from the people he loves. When a witch goes missing from a magical cathedral, Nat decides to work with his mentor, Camille, to save the lost girl from an unknown evil. ...

The perfect book for all student journalists, this young learners adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's New York Times best-selling She Said will inspire a new generation of investigative journalists.

Lenard Childs is a young man who has slowly seen the world fall apart. The storms that used to be mild have intensified with each passing year. But it wasn't until the earthquakes and tsunamis hit that people started to panic. Clearly, the world was changing, and not for the better. As natural disasters increased in frequency, Lenard knew that the apocalypse was imminent. A quarter of the world's population was wiped out, and those who remained struggled to survive in a rapidly deteriorating world. Despite all this, Lenard refused to give up hope. During times of crisis, he had seen the ...

"A suspenseful and original take on the body-swapping premise that will appeal to young readers who like action-packed storylines." -IndieReader High school soccer star Lindsey Anderson was at the top of her game with graduation approaching and a full-ride soccer scholarship offer in her hand. Then she dropped dead on the soccer field, only to wake up in the body of a teenage sex-trafficking victim. No one believes who she really is. Not even her dad. Chased by her new body’s drug-dealing pimp and rabid parapsychologists out to dissect her, Lindsey searches to get her body and her life ...