Hannah Moskowitz

Neal Shusterman

Beth Revis

Shaun David Hutchinson

Kendare Blake

Courtney Summers

Tom Leveen

Steve Brezenoff

Delilah S. Dawson

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Mindi Scott

Blythe Woolston

Christine Johnson

E. M. Kokie

Elisa Nader

Margie Gelbwasser

Brendan Shusterman

Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.

Violent Ends

When a bizarre virus begins transforming his classmates and teachers into bloodthirsty attackers, Brian and his group of misfit friends use the skills they have routinely used to skip school to find a safe hiding place in the school theater, where everything they thought they believed is put to the test.

Sick

The night before going on trial in a sensational felony case that has ruined her life, sixteen-year-old Tori Hershberger receives a random phone call from a stranger contemplating suicide and she begins a race against time to save him.

Random

Hoping to get her life back on track, seventeen-year-old Abby plans to find out what happened when her mother, a co-host of a ghost hunting reality show, who disappeared five years ago in a "haunted" cave in Arizona.

Hellworld

"When Pelly sees her best friend, who disappeared six years ago, in a coffee shop with a strange man, she's determined to discover the truth of her friend's disappearance and rescue her from her current captor"--

Shackled

As eleven different high school students recount, in their own voices, events before, during, and after the same end-of-year party, the stories intersect and combine in unexpected ways.

Party

After graduating from high school in Phoenix, Arizona, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, the falling out she had with her best friend and her parents' personal problems.

Zero

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Darcy looks back on his first three years of high school and considers the significant events involving Becky, his elusive "dream girl" who may be more troubled than he is willing to acknolwedge.

Manicpixiedreamgirl

Danny’s parents yanked him from the art school that let him wear a kilt and listen to bands that no one’s heard of. Now he’s starting sophomore year at the public high school—the one with the gymnasium at the heart of the building and the glorified athletes who rule it all. The smart thing would be to blend in, but Danny has always been about making statements. Brady just wants to get out. Go to college, play football, maybe reach the NFL. He definitely wants to stop waiting for his deadbeat mother to come home, sleeping on park benches, and going to bed hungry. But first he has to lead the team to the championships. It all adds up to a lot of stress. So who can really blame him when he and the football team turn their aggressions on the new freak? Even the quarterback needs to blow off steam sometimes. Coach turns a blind eye to his players’ crimes—because this year, they’re going to State. But maybe if Coach had paid more attention they could’ve caught it before it all happened. Maybe it could’ve been avoided. Maybe. With quick cuts between a large cast of unforgettable characters, and razor-sharp plotting, Tom Leveen takes readers on a countdown to an inevitable, horrifying act. This gripping novel offers an intense, smart perspective on the tragic, toxic mindsets behind the celebrated American sport and the monsters it creates.

Mercy Rule

"[T]he scariest book about hope and love that I've ever read." Amazon reviewer Braden's parents should have been imprisoned for the abuses they perpetrated on him as a child. But that's the past, and Braden's moved on. Wife, kid, nominal success as a novelist-and no contact with his parents for years. The two of them have moved out of state, and Braden is secure with his own family in a new home. Several years of therapy have helped, too. Pushing forty, life is at last treating Braden well. Then a box of his books is accidentally-and mysteriously-delivered to his childhood home. Ignoring his own best judgment, Braden swings by the old place with his three-year-old, Josiah, to pick up the box. In and out, super fast, no big deal. The house has other ideas. Apparently infected somehow by the traumas his parents put him through, the house traps Braden and Josiah with its lone occupant. It begins turning Braden's long buried memories into corporeal horrors that threaten not only his fragile, still-recovering psyche, but the childhood of his only son. As Josiah begins to age before his father's eyes and inanimate objects take on lives of their own, Braden struggles to uncover what exactly the house wants from him. Or if it is, in fact, the house that's haunted.

Those We Bury Back

Monsters

Now you see him... Jim never thought of himself as the hero type. When his girlfriend and her daughter are targeted by a disfigured assailant who's been popping the eyes out of his victims, Jim becomes the only person with a chance to save them. The first victim is Jim's best friend Travis, who is attacked and blinded in his home and overpowered by the grisly intruder. Travis's elderly father is assaulted next, then his mother. That leaves Travis's only living relatives: his daughter Darla, and his ex-wife, who police assume are targeted as the next victims. Jim quickly agrees to protect them as best he can, neglecting to tell his buddy that he and Travis's ex- already have a relationship on the side, and that Jim is beginning to love Darla like his own kid. As police race to find and stop the assailant, Jim discovers it's far too late: someone's lying in wait, and what he -- or they -- want is the last thing Jim could ever have expected . . . ...now you don't.

Now You Don't

Sent to a private religious school? Oh, hell . . . When hopelessly ADHD smart-ass Jon Matthew -- who wants nothing more than a good laugh and to needle anyone older than 16 -- is sent to a private religious high school after getting in a little trouble, he must toe the line for the first time in his life, or else end up "in one of those bad-kid camps in the desert where they make you dig for treasure.” To make it to graduation, he enlists the help of Bill, a big dork who is loyal to a fault; Molly, the dark-souled skater who carries a heartbreaking secret; and Lauren, a dangerously asthmatic girl who Jon’s crushing on but who tries way too hard to be one of the cool kids. Against overwhelming odds (a.k.a. "teachers"), Jon powers through his education while his mouth puts him on a daily razor's edge of getting booted out. Just when it looks like he's pulled off a miracle and won't be sent away, a tragedy knocks Jon’s world on its axis. Suddenly all his jokes and sarcasm aren’t as helpful as he used to think. He'll have only those new friends to keep from losing his mind, his school, or his heart.

A Little Insurrection Now + Then

Todd Mcfarlane

Even though the doors to Heaven and Hell are locked, there's enough evil on Earth to keep Spawn busy. But without his full powers, Spawn will have to find a way to fight his enemies without getting himself killed again. With art by fellow Image founder, ERIK LARSEN (issues #263-266) and veteran SPAWN artist, SZYMON KUDRANSKI (issues #267-275), this 12-issue trade paperback ushers SPAWN into a bold new era.

Spawn: Hell On Earth

"I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her." Tonight's the night. Everyone will be there. Will you? Graduation in Santa Barbara, a house near the beach, and no parents! That can mean only one thing: PARTY! But not everyone's in a partying mood. Beckett is only going to confirm she is invisible after having spent two years caring for her mother; Morrigan seeks revenge on her ex- for having the gall to NOT sleep with her; Azize is trying to make a friend -- any friend; and Anthony's ready to pop off on anyone who mentions his maimed, combat-veteran brother. As the night quickly spirals out of control, eleven unique characters -- all of whom are familiar to anyone who's been a high school student -- crash, collide, and recombine in ways none of them saw coming when a brutal act of xenophobic violence brings the party to a halt. Graduation is a time of change. But after tonight, no one will ever be the same.

Earth is in a horrific drought. To provide enough food for the nation, scientists engineer arachnids-spiders-to enormous sizes as a source of protein. Soon it's discovered giant rachs can be trained by humans as beasts of burden; and eventually, with the advent of giant scorpions, as terrifying beasts built for combat in distant, arid lands long at war with the nation . . .Calliope Turner is a colonel's kid living on a military base where rockets are launched to the moon. Her brother Theo is a special ops soldier about to go on a deployment there, and Callie can't wait to grow up just like him.On the day of the launch, though, every rach on base goes haywire, capturing soldiers and civilians alike. The only rach not participating in the uprising is Callie's pet rach, Goliath. Callie and a new kid at school, Jacob, find themselves the only humans left to save the base and rescue Theo. As Callie and Jacob race to defeat the mega-scorp behind the rebellion, Callie discovers that she has a unique ability: She can communicate with the giant bugs in a way no human being should be able to do. This shocking gift could be the key to saving Theo's life . . . or it might be the one thing that dooms them all.

The Scorpion War

Rebellion

After graduating from high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh begins a relationship with a drummer, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents' personal problems.

Friends. Family. Monsters. Urban legends of a murderous figure called Springheel Jack date back to the 19th century. What 16-year-old Baylee is about to learn is that “he” is most certainly for real…and not alone. Baylee and her older brother Elijah are orphans, their parents brutally murdered in what appears to be a random act of violence along an empty Nevada highway. Living now in another state with friends of the family they hardly know, the two teens do their best to build new friendships: shy Elijah with a small and loyal group of gamers, and quiet Baylee with exactly one tomboy skater friend, Krista...plus a strikingly beautiful and kind boyfriend Baylee won't tell anyone about. When Elijah suddenly gets his first girlfriend and Krista is picked up by a new boyfriend, both of them cease talking to Baylee. Determined to prove the two new kids are bad somehow, maybe even criminal, Baylee follows them out to the desert one night, and finds her worst fears are nothing compared to the bloody, gruesome truth. And her secret beau is right at the center of it... As Elijah slowly turns into something dangerous and otherworldly and Baylee's adoptive family moves to put her into a psychiatric health facility after she tells the truth about what she knows, Baylee turns to the only people who might be able to Elijah human again: her brother’s nerdy RPG gamer friends.

Heartless

For family. For vengeance. Tanin, a desert elf whose grown up in a peaceful desert enclave, is the only member of his clan not killed when White Riders ravage his town. They take few prisoners, but one of them is his betrothed, Memine. Orrock of Guar has become a monk, taken in by a race of creatures not his own for the past ten years. With his training complete, he is sent back into the world to discover his creator's will for his life . . . never anticipating that he would be challenged to revert to his former barbaric nature to serve his god. Despite crippling panic attacks after seeing the carnage back home, Tanin swears to track down the White Riders and rescue Memine. With Orrock's help and the aid of two other odd companions, he may stand a chance of finding the Riders somewhere in the wilds of Kassia . . . if his guide is truly leading the way . . .

Tom Leveen

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