After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay-but her hospitality isn't free. With her father's words, 'You must survive', echoing...

When magic, romance and family secrets collide, the result is spellbinding! Miranda Kane has always felt like a screw up--at least when it comes to her ability to wield magic. Her only sanctuary is Shadow Falls camp, where she's learning to harness her powers as a witch. But thanks to her shapeshifter boyfriend who called it quits and ran off to Paris, both her heart and powers feel broken. When she unexpectedly lands a top spot in a spell casting...

Julian Moreland, aged 12 3/4, lives in Darwin with his widowed father, Craig, a colonel and helicopter flying instructor in the army. They have a close relationship, sharing a love of fishing and flying in helicopters. But Craig, who is in his late forties, has been in the military for thirty years. At Christmas, he retires from the army, and moves to Melbourne for civilian work in mid-January. On the afternoon of their arrival in Melbourne, Craig...

Diana Alderoot isn't sure about summer school, but she's hopeful to learn at least something new and maybe even some magic from their teacher — the first mage to ever visit The Magic Vale. But, school isn't business as usual and the things Diana discovers are about to unravel the very fabric of her realm. Determined to uncover the source of evil rising in the world around her, Diana embarks on an adventure that is quite unlike anything she ever...

Nolan Erling has no recollection of the dream world or the organization that governs it. Following the events at the Spring of Souls, the DREAM Institute has carried out Nolan's punishment, wiping his mind and exiling him to a mundane life in the Midwest. But the world of slumber isn't done with him yet, and Nolan is thrust back into the Dreamstream when a strange girl invades his dreams-and his life-insistent his head has been tampered with. With...

Xavier Hunter's dreams of graduation and college are even more crazy-impossible this sophomore year. Flipping on his former BFF has put more than one target on his back. And thanks to vicious baby-daddy lies, his dream girl Samantha Fox has quit him for good. The only person who seems to understand what he's going through is Nancy Simpson. She's a gorgeous chance to make things right--but she's more dangerous drama than Xavier has ever seen. Samantha...

"Miriha turned from her pool with a sigh. She knew she had watched the breaking of a heart and it grieved her that Jenny should feel such pain. The Dimensional Alliance had been thrust into another violent conflict, as she had suspected it would be. And this one would not be resolved by the force of arms alone.Jenny was still the key to victory. Miriha was sure of this. But choices still had to be made and trials overcome. In all things, choice was...

Driving with her Dad to visit Aunt May is his idea of how to help Tina out of a depression that's lasted months. But the highway is boring, the weather is hot, and she's seen enough rocks and sticks for a lifetime. Tina is so preoccupied with her thoughts and memories that she hardly sees the world changing around her. When Tina and her Dad stop in a small town that hasn't changed much since 1918, it's a chance for her thoughts and memories to shuffle...

When a tornado takes her home, she's forced to live with the boy who broke her heart.From the best selling author of the Summer Unplugged series, Ella's Twisted Senior Year is a sweet, angsty teen romance that's perfect for fans of Kasie West, Ali Novak, and Jessica Sorensen.Having spent most of her senior year flying under the radar, the last thing Ella Lockhart expected was to have a tornado rip straight through her house, leaving her homeless....

In the podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen-year-old geeks Lula and Rory share everything-sci-fi and fantasy fandom, Friday night binge-watching of old X-Files episodes, and that feeling that they don't quite fit in. Lula knows she and Rory have no secrets from each other; after all, he came out to her years ago, and she's shared with him her "sacred texts"-the acting books her mother left behind after she walked out of Lula's life....