Steven Boyer
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
2) Deadline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
414 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Rick Yancey has captivated young adult readers with his popular Alfred Kropp novels, the first of which was named a Best Book for Children by Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. Now Yancey begins a gripping new series with The Monstrumologist. Dr. Warthrop is a scientist who tracks and studies real-life monsters. Assisted by his 12-year-old apprentice Will Henry, Dr. Warthrop discovers a pod of Anthropophagi...
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Rick Yancey's first gothic suspense tale, The Monstrumologist, earned him a prestigious Michael L. Printz Award. The second installment of this acclaimed series, Curse of the Wendigo finds young Will Henry on the hunt for a supernatural beast plaguing New England in the late 1800s. Will and his mentor, the domineering Dr. Warthrop, are enlisted to help the doctor's former fiancEe. It seems her husband has been lost in the Canadian wilderness. And...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
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