Roy Eberhardt has recently moved to Coconut Grove, Florida, from Montana with his parents, and is putting up with the usual nonsense that adolescent kids inflict on newcomers. He eats lunch alone in the cafeteria, except for the occasional presence of Garrett, a skateboarding air head, and is trying to navigate his way past [...]
Keladry of Mindelan has her heart set on becoming a knight. Though her parents worry that it might prove too difficult a challenge even for a girl with Kel’s courage, she is determined to join the pages being trained at the court of King Jonathan. Since a new proclamation has decreed that girls be permitted, [...]
Raised by a god-fearing, and embittered father, and a mother who has quietly stopped practising her women’s magic because of her husband’s disapproval, Jack has been accustomed to sorrow and disappointment, and to working hard from dawn to dusk tending the sheep and the crops, gathering firewood, hauling water, and carrying food to the village [...]
Benny ought to be having the time of his life; he has led his team to victory in the Primary Schools County Hurling Final, and Wexford has finally made it to the All-Ireland Hurling Final, but his father has been transferred to Tunisia with his company, EuroGas. So, instead of playing pickup games with his [...]
Grade 10 student Meghan Ball is perfecting the art of invisibility. Her extreme obesity makes her both the target of vicious verbal attacks by J-Bar, Valley Regional High’s star athlete, and renders her a non-person in the eyes of staff and fellow students. Abandoned in Grade 7 by her only friend, Meghan strives to pass [...]
Bradley, who has survived on his own almost longer he can remember, has collected his pack, Florist, a small girl with a hacking cough, Victor, more wild animal than child, and three semi-feral dogs, Hunger, Fearless and Shelter, from the doorways and back alleys of the Zone. Bradley, Floris and Victor are three among the [...]
