Janelle Tenne, having been brought back to life by loner Ben Michaels after being hit by a pickup truck two days before the start junior year, finds a countdown clock while searching her dad's FBI files for clues about how Ben revived her and soon realizes she must figure out Ben's secret in order to save the world.

Welcome to the forest. This is where the stories live. They've been breathing in the dark for hundreds of years. Let me show them to you. Here is the man who likes to eat children. Here is the castle that screams in the night. Here are the souls trapped under the sea. This book contains fourteen gruesome tales from around the world.

Fourth-grade inventor Scab McNally is in deep water (which happens to be the one thing he's terribly afraid of)! After a fishing trip to the lake with best buddies Doyle, Will and his dog, Joe, Scab is certain that he's discovered a prehistoric swamp creature. Of course, no one will believe his crazy story unless he can prove it and his mother won't allow him to return to the lake until he completes a swimming class with his "smart times ten" twin...

Seventeen-year-old David missed his shot at fame after quitting his band, while his former best friends, Chance and Eli, became pop stars, but when Eli commits suicide, David and Chance reconnect and trade their frenemy status for a confusing, tentative romance. When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame. For the past two years he has been trapped in an ordinary Seattle high school life, working summers for his dad's construction business...

The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing over vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's already shaky confidence. And especially not when her best friend starts flirting with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's got something to prove. As she writes down all the ways...

"Advanced picture book told through first-person narrative and graphic novel style panels. What Happens Next is a raw, realistic story told by an unnamed protagonist who feels different from everybody else, like she doesn't quite fit in. Bullied by a girl at school, our narrator gives a terse script of the related facts and emotions. At school the next day, the narrator confronts the bully by spinning her "weirdo" obsession with science into an opportunity...

While her military parents are stationed in South Korea, high school junior Megan learns a great deal about boys and herself when she moves to Massachusetts to live with family friends who have seven sons.

Before the Black Pearl, there was a teenage stowaway named Jack Sparrow...Having recently been betrayed by his last remaining crewmate, Jack finds himself all alone on perhaps the most dangerous quest of his young life. Jack is on a mission to find something he's not even sure exists--a treasure of unimaginable proportions. But there's a band of pirates who are also searching for the treasure. Will they, or Jack, find it first?

"Matt Nolan is the high school drug dealer, deadbeat, and soon-to-be dropout according to everyone at his school. His vice principal is counting down the days until Mr. 60% (aka Matt) finally flunks out and is no longer his problem. What no one knows is the only reason Matt sells drugs is to take care of his uncle Jack, who is dying of cancer. Meet Amanda. The overly cheerful social outcast whose optimism makes Matt want to hurl. Stuck as partners...

Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints. After her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.