Josie, the daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.īlue’s gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the Aglionby Academy, she discovers that together their talents are a dangerous mix.īecause Taylor's father is terminally ill, her family decides to spend the summer at their lake house to be together.

Tom experiences a culture outside of his small Maine town where people can come and go out of nowhere. The star of the soccer team, Tom, finds out there is more to life than high school when he befriends Somali refugee Saeed. The unlikely friendship between basketball team captain Charlie and robotics club president Nateis challenged when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders over funding that will either pay for new uniforms or a robotics competition. Sam is perfectly happy as a game-playing, movie-obsessed geek until beautiful, friendly, andimpossible to ignore Camilla starts him wondering if he has been watching all the wrong movies. Tom, a genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.Ī troubled sixteen-year-old girl attending a wilderness school in the Idaho mountains must finally face the consequences of her complicated friendships with two of the other girls at the school.Įnduring a difficult existence in the woods with her younger sister and the mentally ill mother who abducted them, Cary is found by her father and thrust into a new world that is overshadowed by a secret about her sister's silence. When both of her adoptive parents die in a car accident, Willow is left to navigate middle school and the foster care system depending only on her exceptional IQ and a group of misfit friends. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice.ĭown on her luck, runaway Maude accepts a position which embarrasses her and causes problems, but eventually this new experience in bohemian Paris offers her a new understanding of life.īomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin