Diana Rodriguez Wallach displays a masterful grip on her third-person narrator, adeptly bouncing back and forth between the lives of her two main characters, Vera and Max, while slowly and deliciously revealing both their troubled pasts and their growing obsession with each other.
The closer they get to each other, the farther they find themselves thrust into a world from which they don’t belong, a world that is hopelessly marred by death, darkness, and the merciless clutches of evil.
This book is a headlong dive into the world of cults and the occult, armed with more terrifying twists and turns than a roller coaster ride through the actual Pet Cemetary.
The Conjuring meets The Vow! This is the terrifying story of a girl, a dark angel, and the cult hellbent on taking over her small, coastal town.
Vera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mention she's the family outcast, lacking her parents' innate abilities, and is terrified of the occult things lurking in their basement.
Maxwell Oliver is supposed to be enjoying the summer before his senior year, spending his days thinking about parties and friends. Instead he's taking care of his little sister while his mom slowly becomes…
Amber
Smith’s first-person narrator, fifth grader Sadie Mitchel-Rosen, will warm your
heart from the opening page of this book.
Struggling to grasp the
impact of a newly diagnosed learning difference and a grandfather with
dementia, Sadie befriends a stray pup named Dewey and quickly forms a
telepathic relationship with her furry friend that helps her save his life
while also strengthening her own familial bonds.
If you’ve ever formed an
everlasting attachment to one of your fur babies, you’ll most definitely love
this book.
Fans of Katherine Applegate, Holly Goldberg Sloan, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt will love New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith’s heartwarming middle grade debut about family, friendship, and the magic connection between a girl and her dog.
Eleven-year-old Sadie’s school year is off to an awful start. Her best (and only) friend has moved away, her older brother is a jerk (as always), and her beloved Gramps is having more and more trouble keeping his memories straight. But when she comes across a stray dog, she discovers something wonderful and magical—she and the dog, Dewey, are able to communicate telepathically.…
This book provides readers with an authentic window through which
they can peer into the life experienced during WWII-ravaged Korea, as seen
through Miyooki.
In Miyooki, Park creates a narrator who explodes off the page
as a rebellious thirteen-year-old witness and survivor of the traumas of war.
Miyooki's unique perspective highlights the full range of her experience in
three distinct stages, life before wartime; life under the Japanese occupation
of her homeland; and life as the war ends and the Russian military moves in to
collect the spoils.
The novel's concise length is another key feature that
makes it extremely digestible for classroom study. This is a thought-provoking and
culturally important work of literature for students in middle school and
above.
It’s 1944. The Pangs own The Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but only when she is sent to work in the dreaded dye factory – a place deemed Hell’s Chamber by her older brother, Hoon - does she experience spiritual death. It is here where she meets Song-ho, an orphaned boy, and unbeknownst to her, the brief encounter will prove fateful. When…
Things
don’t usually come to a screeching halt at the RAT, also known as Ridgewood
Arts & Technical School, Ridgewood City’s most prestigious institution. But
that’s what happens when Headmistress Hardaway interrupts class and announces,
“A scandal has rocked the fundraising committee!”
Everyone’s a suspect, and
Hunter Jackson, a student council special investigator, vows to root out the
student who’s heartless enough to steal donation money. He’s
not alone. Ridgewood Roar news
editor Anthony Ravello and indie-press pioneer Liberty Lennon plan to do
some digging to scoop the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to
their faithful readers.
With the story getting murkier by the day, Liberty and
Anthony race to unmask the classmate responsible for the missing funds.
