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Willow Tate is a graphic novelist who earns enough money at her craft to keep her rent- controlled Manhattan apartment and still put food in the fridge. But when she decides to write about a ten- foot-tall troll who's a superhero, one suddenly

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Willow Tate is a graphic novelist who earns enough money at her craft to keep her rent-controlled

Manhattan apartment and still put food in the fridge. But when she decides to write about a ten-foot-tall

troll who's a superhero, one

suddenly appears, causing mayhem in

Manhattan.

When Max and the Flock discover an

unscrupulous scientist who is

experimenting on humans in an effort

to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of

Angel's prediction about Fang dying.

Eighth-grade sportswriters Stevie and Susan Carol

team up to solve a mystery at the

famous Army-Navy football

game.

Seventeen-year-old

Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--

one of the Four Horsemen of

the Apocalypse--cannot keep

her from feeling fat and

worthless.

In the last months of high school,

charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present,

staying drunk or high most of the time, but

that could change when he starts

working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle between his long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret network of scientists who want to prevent him from trying to use it to change history for the better. Includes historical notes.

14 year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country’s dump.

Fascinating stories from the history of American espionage, from George Washington's network of spies to recent infiltrations of U.S. intelligence.

When new and unconventional high school student Amanda Valentino disappears, her three closest friends, who are all from vastly different circles, band together and, using enigmatic clues that seem to come from Amanda herself, try to find her.

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made—through a series of quests that might make her immortal.

Compulsive liar Micah

promises to tell the truth

after revealing that her boyfriend

has been murdered.

Sixteen-year-old Kelly, a beautiful but socially awkward orphan with an IQ of 190, is recruited by a secret government spy agency to go undercover as a model and rescue the kidnapped father of the boy she has a huge crush on.

In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.

Upon the death of her father, 17 year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an over-whelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is going to kill himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly,he seems to know her intimately.

17 year–old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of “Teen Robin Hood.”

As the Revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, now an extraordinary practitioner of magic, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France, but the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him.

Disparate teenagers sign up for a three-

week-long, city-wide assassination game

during a water shortage, with

pressurized water guns the weapons of

choice, under the watchful eye of a mysterious game

keeper.

Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, 15-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Still mourning the recent death of his mother,

seventeen-year-old Troy Stotts relates the events

of the previous year when he and his two closest friends try to retaliate against the

sheriff's son, who has been bullying them for

years.

Seventeen-year-old Theresa tries to get past the guilt she feels over the death of a neighbor who loved her, first through a journal

her therapist tells her to keep, then by transforming herself and startinga new life.

Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest, with help from her attractive and adventurous new friend, to find her.

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boy-friend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders.

While playing a dangerous subway prank, a fifteen-year-old slacker, who lives a comfortable life in Brooklyn, falls through a time-travel vortex and is transported to different time periods in twentieth-century New York City, where he learns first-hand about hardship.

When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor—reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother’s Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for a girl obsessed with the occult.

Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarter back Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water..