James Patterson's bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone--or something--is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells...and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more...
It never opened its doors, and for all that time, the towns people have wondered why the ship landed there, and what - or who could be inside. Then one day, a government operative - posing as a journalist - arrives in town, asking questions. He discovers sixteen year old Annie Collins, one of the ship's closest neighbours, and a local fixture, known throughout the town, has some of the answers. As a matter of fact, Annie Collins might be the most important person on the planet. She just doesn'...
My mother once said that only the Beautiful Ones survive. This is because, in the war-torn Great South, beauty is a currency, and to have it means you will never have to worry about a thing.The only problem is: beauty is judged by our capital’s Gentlewomen, and there is no guarantee that we will pass their test.Every year, the Gentlewomen of the capital leave the Glittering City to oversee the annual Procession. They travel settlement to settlement selecting girls, aged sixteen and older, to bec...
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead, #3) (Junior Classics)
by E. Nesbit
At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic amulet - half of it actually - which they use it to try and find the other half. It takes them back to ancient Egypt and Babylon. The Queen of Babylon visits them in London, bringing all her ancient...
The Roswell High: the Salvation (Roswell High, #10)
by Melinda Metz
When Max begins acting strange and unlike himself, Liz begins to wonder if something sinister is controlling him and if there is anything she can do to help Max break free.
In this follow-up to TIN STAR, the desolate planet below the Yertina Feray space station is discovered to have overwhelming amounts of an invaluable resource, which suddenly makes the station a major player in intergalactic politics.
When Trent McCauley's obsession for making movies by reassembling footage from popular films causes his home's internet to be cut off, it nearly destroys his family. Shamed, Trent runs away to London. A new bill threatens to criminalize even harmless internet creativity. Things look bad, but the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds...
What if you knew there was life after death? Eli is back from the dead… and determined to stop the powerful ascenders who blasted him out to the void. But in the three days he was gone, the world moved on. The girl he loves is determined to build an army of augmented humans to fight the ascenders—with herself as the next Offering. The ascenders are lining up in a death cult based on the charismatic ascender Eli accidentally released from storage—and all the restraints that have kept the ascende...
Excelsior (The Excelsior Journey 1) (Excelsior Journey, #1)
by George Sirois