The document summarizes several young adult novels. It provides brief descriptions of the plots and characters for the novels White Fang, Football Champ, Sent, Karma Bites, One Crazy Summer, Prime Evil, Troublemaker, Airman, Go Ask Alice, Coffin Club, Internal Devices, Life as we knew it, Torn, The Bridge to Never Land, The Last Shot, Uncommon Criminals, Flirt Club, The Roar, and How To Survive Middle School.
2. The story centers around White
Fang, the gray wolf cub born of
White Fang Kiche and One Eye. He is shown
to be different from the other
pups in his litter and grows to be
highly aggressive and morose.
Some of his masters, like Gray
Beaver and Beauty Smith, do not
show him any kindness
whatsoever. He learns to obey
the stick that is freely applied by
his masters and becomes violent
in the process, snapping and
growling at both animals and
humans. White Fang wants to be
left alone all the time, but he is
made to fight dogs, wolves, and
even a lynx. This combat only
reinforces his hatred towards
every living creature.
3. Football Champ
When Troy White proved his remarkable
"football genius" to the Atlanta
Falcons, they brought him on board as a
team consultant. Now, thanks to Troy's
ability to predict winning plays, the
Falcons are pulling in victories. Troy
loves his starring role behind the scenes
and the thrill of having NFL star
linebacker Seth Halloway (who's dating
Troy's mom) to coach his own Duluth
Tigers team on their way to a state
championship. Then Troy's perfect world
comes crashing down. Reporter Brent
Peele is out to smear as much mud on
the Falcons as he can, and that means
going after Troy. The vicious media
storm that descends on the football
genius threatens not only his job with
the Falcons and the Tigers' run at a
championship but his mother's career--
and Seth's--as well.
4. Sent
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and another
boy, Alex, have no preparation
before they are sent back to 1483 at
the Tower of London, with the
promise that they can return to the
present if they can repair history.
They quickly discover that Chip and
Alex's true identities are the 13-year-
old King Edward V and his 10-year-
old brother, Richard, Duke of York.
But before Chip can enjoy being the
king of England, they discover that
they are virtually prisoners—and
that their uncle wants them dead.
How can the kids repair time and
return home when according to
history, Chip and Alex were
murdered?
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5. Karma Bites
Life seems to have it in for Franny
Flanders.
Her best friends aren’t speaking, her
parents just divorced, and her hippie
grandmother has moved in.
The only karma Franny’s got is bad
karma.
Then Franny gets her hands on a box
of magic recipes that could fix all of
her problems. It could even change
the world! Finally, life is looking up.
But Franny is about to learn that
magic and karma aren’t to be played
with. When you mess with the
universe, it can bite back in
unexpected ways.
Ouch!
6. One Crazy Summer
Mothers. Can’t live with them.
Can’t live without them. Yet 11-
year-old Delphine and her
younger sisters Vonetta and Fern
have done just fine without
theirs. Cecile, a poet, walked out
on them just after Fern was
born. Now, in the summer of
1968, their father, with the
reluctant agreement of their
grandmother, has decided that
the three girls need to leave their
Brooklyn home to spend a few
weeks with their mother in
Oakland, Calif., to get to know
her.
7. Prime Evil Crystal Gregory is a beautiful new
teacher at Sunnydale High, who also
happens to give Buffy panic fits
whenever she's in the same room as her.
Buffy can't sense anything unusual about
the teacher and begins to wonder if she's
losing her mind. But lately, Anya and
Michael seem to be getting awfully close
to Crystal and would appear to do
anything for her. While out for her usual
patrol at night, Buffy has two strange
encounters; one, a man is completely
incinerated by red and lighting and the
other being a girl from school who has a
burn mark on her neck in the shape of
the symbol for infinity. As soon as Giles
gets cracking on his books, he finds out
that Crystal is in fact Shugra, a powerful
primal witch which is trying to activate
the source. She needs a coven of 13
willing people to participate in order to
draw the proper energy, unfortunately, it
seems that Willow is one of those
people.
8. Troublemaker
Sam Hooker and Alex
Barnaby, from Metro Girl and
Motor Mouth are back in this
graphic novel from Janet and
Alex Evanovich. Sam is a race
car driver, and Alex is an auto
mechanic who can’t seem to
stay away from Sam. When
their friend Felicia goes
missing, Sam and Alex must
discover the truth behind her
disappearance and help her
in any way they can.
9. Airman
Airman is set in the 1890's on
the sovereign Saltee
Islands, off the Irish coast. It
is the story of Conor
Broekhart, a young Saltee
Islander whose
father, Declan, is the King's
bodyguard. When Conor
discovers that the power
hungry Marshall Hugo
Bonvilain is organizing a
military coup, the king is
murdered and Conor is
blamed for the crime and
thrown into prison.
10. Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice is written as the
diary of a fifteen-year-old girl's
day-to-day struggle with drug
addiction. Created during the
height of the drug era, the girl
could be anyone from this time
who found him or herself
seduced by the mind-altering
affects of
marijuana, LSD, bennies, dexies,
and heroin. When the book
begins, the author of the diary is
an ordinary teenager with
ordinary teenage concerns. She
is an innocent, yearning to see
what life has to offer her, and she
falls in with a group of kids
headed on a destructive path.
11. Coffin Club
When Raven returns to
Hipsterville's cryptic goth
haunt, the Coffin Club, she
discovers a secret door to
another disco-"The Dungeon"-
that is inhabited by vampires
only. Raven learns that the
nefarious Jagger Maxwell has
welcomed the vampire clan into
the club and has gained the
popularity he missed in
Romania. He is poised to take
over Hipsterville, until a new
vampire named Phoenix
challenges him for control of the
Coffin Club.
12. Internal Devices
Wren is desperate to
escape. She'll do anything
to get out of Anchorage -
and her new friends are
only too willing to help.
But before long, she'll find
herself a captive, then a
slave, and finally the bait
that leads Tom and Hester
back into perilous waters
...
13. Life as we knew it
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear
in a split second when a meteor
knocks the moon closer to the
earth. How should her family
prepare for the future when
worldwide tsunamis wipe out
the coasts, earthquakes rock the
continents, and volcanic ash
blocks out the sun? As summer
turns to Arctic
winter, Miranda, her two
brothers, and
their mother retreat to the
unexpected safe haven. To
prepare for the unthinkable.
Death…
14. Torn
Everyone has secrets.
Even best friends.
Swirling black descends like
ravens, large enough to block
the glow of the streetlights. A
dull roar starts like a train on the
'L', a far-away rumbling that
grows louder as it pulls
closer, until it's directly
overhead and you feel it in your
chest, except this doesn't pass
you by. Verity, white-faced and
eyes blazing, shouts through the
din, "Run, Mo!"
15. The Bridge to Never Land
The story is set in 1901, 23 years after
the events of Peter and the Secret of
Rundoon. Molly Aster, now Molly
Darling, is married to George and a
mother of three: Wendy, John, and
Michael. Her mother Louise has
been deceased for a while and her
father Leonard is ill. One
evening, she is visited by one of the
original Lost Boys: James, who now
works for Scotland Yard. He informs
Molly about his suspicions with
Baron von Schatten, an advisor to
Prince Albert Edward. James thinks
von Schatten is being controlled by
Lord Ombra, but Molly brushes it
off as foolishness, saying that
Ombra was destroyed at Rundoon.
Along with this, the Starcatchers
have been few since the incident.
16. The Last Shot
When eighth graders Stevie Thomas and
Susan Carol Anderson win a youth
writing contest sponsored by the U.S.
Basketball Writers
Association, they're both flying higher
than Vince Carter on an alley-oop. As
grand prize winners, the pair have won a
trip to the Final Four college basketball
tournament in New Orleans and a
chance to cover the event as working
journalists. They're both given press
credentials and a chance to write about
the exciting events of March Madness.
The Final Four becomes truly mad when
Stevie and Susan Carol overhear the star
player of Minnesota State being
blackmailed to throw the
Championship Game. The two writers
put their investigative skills together and
try to to save college basketball's most
important game, but not before running
into high-stakes danger and mystery.
17. Uncommon Criminals
Katarina Bishop has worn a
lot of labels in her short life:
Friend. Niece. Daughter.
Thief. But for the last two
months she’s simply been
known as the girl who ran the
crew that robbed the greatest
museum in the world. That’s
why Kat isn’t surprised when
she’s asked to steal the
infamous Cleopatra Emerald
so it can be returned to its
rightful owners.
18. Flirt Club
When two self-professed
middle school drama
geeks––Isabelle and Annie
(a.k.a. Cisco and The
Bean)––fail at their
attemps in romance, they
start Flirt Club, an after
school support group for
similarly afflicted friends
who decide to take decisive
and strategic action with
hilarious and touching
results.
19. The Roar
Mika and Ellie live in a
future behind a wall: Solid
concrete topped with high-
voltage razor wire and
guarded by a battalion of
Ghengis Borgs, it was built
to keep out the
animals, because animals
carry the plague. At least
that's what Ellie, who was
kidnapped as a child, has
always been taught.
20. How To Survive Middle School
David Greenburg is 11 years old and
about to start middle school. He’s
not too worried until his older
cousin Jack tells him about the
horrors he may face, including a
toilet-bowl swirlie on his birthday.
David has other worries on his mind
too: his mom left the family to live
on a farm in Maine that has no
electricity or phone service, his best
friend Elliott no longer speaks to
him, and his older sister Lindsay is
hostile a lot of the time. The only
good thing he has going is his
grandmother, Bubbe, the TalkTime
videos he records and posts on
YouTube, and his pet hamster.