Evan might have the name for a royal (Evangeline), but she certainly has never felt like one! In fact, it wasn’t until she was eleven that she found out she was related to the King of England. And by related meaning, as in, his daughter! But she is not his legitimate daughter. Turns out her father had an affair with her mom and he already has a royal daughter. Evan has been in a series of boarding schools ever since her grandmother died when she was eleven. Her mom has mental health issues and can’t take care of her, so when her grandmother died, her father stepped in and began sending her to ..read more

Frank worries about everything, whereas Stanley seems to breeze through life. They both live on the island of Oahu, where their fathers are serving in the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor. Frank feels lucky that Stanley is on base with him too, since they are the same age and even better, enjoy the same things, like creating comic books. But when Frank reveals how anxious he is to get hurt during a fight, he worries that Stanley will stop being his friend. What neither boy knows is that the next day, during a visit to one of the large ships that is stationed at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese att ..read more

When Piper moved in with her father and stepmother, she didn’t know her new school would require her to do a senior project. Still when she finds out, she thinks that maybe she could do a podcast like the one she listens to, Dead, Deader, Deadest. And it turns out, she has just the topic for it. Seventeen years ago, a girl who went to her school disappeared after a party one night, and was found twelve days later, dead, with a bullet through the heart. Piper decides she is going to investigate what happened all those years ago, since no arrest was ever made, and no one has come forth with any ..read more

Poppy and her family are on the run, from something, or someone? Maybe the police? Poppy honestly doesn’t know. She’s never known. All she does know is she and her family have been running since, well, forever. Her whole life at least. So when they pack up and leave again, while it isn’t great, she isn’t surprised. Just surprised that she keeps making the mistake of thinking her life could be a bit normal, if just for long enough to graduate from high school. But this latest move, things are different. Her mom especially seems different. The house is different and Poppy realizes that if she is ..read more

For the longest time, Trev looked up to his stepdad. He seemed to have the answers and so, Trev respected that. Until the day that his stepdad hits Trev’s mom. At that point, Trev feels he can’t believe what his stepdad always told him. And he is scared, because his stepdad said he would get Trev’s mom for calling the police on him and getting him locked up. His stepdad always told him to use his hands to settle a problem. Problem is, Trev doesn’t think he can take on his stepdad when he gets out, and he is getting out soon. So, Trev begins to work out, and looks to find someone who can train ..read more

Her mom just doesn’t get it. Reha wants to fit in at school, but her mom wants her to hold fast to the Indian traditions from her mother’s home in India. But Reha feels more American, than Indian most days. Like how can she explain to her mom that she wants to wear jeans to a party, when her mom thinks she should wear a pretty, fancy dress? Plus, it sometimes makes things harder that Reha is an only child and has no one to share her issues with. Even though Reha wishes things could be easier, she is devastated when her mother gets sick. How can she be upset with her mom when the world seems to ..read more

After her brother died, it just seemed the right thing to do. For her to join the war effort and do all she could to defeat the Nazis. That is how Lucie finds herself in occupied France, in 1943, pretending to be a French citizen, even though she is an American, and pretending to be 18 years old, when she is only 16. Her parents don’t even know she has decided to join the war. She just left home one day. It isn’t like she left two happy people, because neither of her parents seems very happy, ever since they immigrated from France to the United States. Still, she is doing her best to be a help ..read more

Simon is thrilled to be moving to a place in the United States with no internet, or cell phones, or computers or even….microwaves! Yup, nothing like that. He and his parents have moved to the National Quiet Zone which is where there are a ton of radio telescopes. These telescopes listen in on outer space and can’t have anything interfere with that. Which makes it the perfect place for Simon and his family, because Simon doesn’t want anyone to know what happened to him, two years before. And he knows no one can find him if the internet isn’t there! What Simon isn’t expecting though, is on his f ..read more

Every Sunday, Marlene dreads going to the salon. Like, dreads it. Hates it. But, she knows it makes her mother happy. But what is really wrong with Marlene’s hair the way it is, naturally? Marlene decides that enough is enough and she wants to find out what her hair would look like if she just let it be! All of this happens after a party for her cousin (who has the PERFECT hair) brings home just how much everyone in Marlene’s family base things on looks. Especially about how the women’s hair looks. However, when Marlene tries to do things her way, she meets with some disastrous results and it ..read more

Not all true crime books have a solution. After all, that is what makes it real, and not packaged up nicely in an hour television show. There are plenty of mysteries left to be solved in the world and maybe you have what it takes to break a case wide open! For example, there is a major art heist that still has not been solved and it happened in 1990. Artwork was stolen from the Gardner Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts by two men who said they were police officers coming to check on a call about a disturbance. Turns out, the disturbance was the robbers dressed as police officers! To this day ..read more