Children/Young Adult

The youngest of three teenage sisters, Nora Charles is used to being the brunt of their teasing, but that doesn’t stop her from making tenacious plans to travel the world, write books and ride elephants. After the death of their father, the Charles women seek to make a new start in a new town. Cold Springs is a historic village, its rainbow-hued gingerbread houses clinging to the side of the mountain. Nora and her sisters soon discover that this quaint town has a dark and disturbing history. It's up to the Charles sisters to save a new friend and discover the dangerous secret behind a mysterious group of women.

A sketch of Jesus Christ! Is it possible? The Kent Family travels to England to find out.

A young boy's first day of high school is just another step on the winding stairway into depression and insanity. A darkly humorous social satire of unbelievable proportions takes you on a journey into the darkest depths of the American teenager's mind... Forget the sex, forget the drugs, forget the good times. This is where the coming-of-age feel good stories end and the maniacal truth begins. These are the suicide years.

The Kent Family visits Syria to excavate at Tadmor, only to find out there are some people who are determined that they won't stay.

A free-spirited teen and her more conventional twin sister battle industrial spies while trying to decide who to take to prom in this sci-fi young adult romance.

In the year 1849, after both of Will Barlow's parents die, the 14-year old farm boy departs his family farm in Michigan and travels with a neighboring family to California, where he hopes to make his fortune in the gold fields. During his travels, he must endure the rigors of overland travel and the forces of nature. Moreover, he is exposed to the tension and unexpected dangers of sharing a wagon and the road with a dysfunctional family whose patriarch rules with an iron fist and accepts Will as a traveling companion only because of the boy's strong back and full wallet. To read, start at the bottom of the web page.

Jessica Sheldon is floored on her first day of high school when her chemistry teacher predicts these years will be the best days of her life. She takes one look at the kid sitting next to her making spitballs out of his syllabus and she begs to differ. Throughout the next four years, Jessica struggles to find her niche as she wipes out on the bunny hill during the school ski trip, crashes her car, and tears her hair out over the ACT exam. It isn't until her senior year that things start to fall into place. With the help of an eccentric teacher, Jessica learns having self-esteem is far more important than getting nominated for homecoming queen.