Tag: action/adventure

The Last Messenger of Zitol by Chelsea Dyreng

The Last Messenger of Zitol by Chelsea Dyreng

“Messenger of Zitól,” he said in a booming voice, even though the girl was standing right in front of him. “Ask the gods to grant us another year of rain and sun for our crops. Beg them to protect our great city. Thank the gods for their preservation of our traditions and culture!” The Messenger’s face was composed, but Rishi could see the violent trembling […]

September 13, 2016 / 1 Comment
The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

Hank, Hector, and Henry Hooligan are fun-loving, go-cart racing, up-for-anything boys. When the school bully, Rock, challenges the Hooligans to a go-cart race down Deadman’s Hill, the last thing anyone expects to see is a huge, blobby, purple alien in the middle of the road. Luckily Hoolie isn’t a dangerous alien. He’s friendly (if a bit smelly), and he eats clothes (particularly socks). He even […]

September 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Alcatraz: The Dark Talent

Alcatraz: The Dark Talent

Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Mokia. Too bad he managed to break the Smedry Talents in the process. Even worse, his father is trying to enact a scheme that could ruin the world, and his friend, Bastille, is in a coma. To revive her, Alcatraz must infiltrate the Highbrary—known as The Library of Congress to […]

September 7, 2016 / 0 Comments
Evertaster: The Delicious City by Adam Glendon Sidwell

Evertaster: The Delicious City by Adam Glendon Sidwell

Ever since he took a bite of a legendary dessert last summer, twelve-year-old Guster Johnsonville has never been the same. In fact, when a strange little man dressed as a conquistador comes clattering into the barn at the back of the Johnsonville farmhouse one afternoon, he forces Guster to face the truth: Guster is now the most delicious thing in the whole world, and a […]

September 5, 2016 / 0 Comments
Blood at Haught Springs by Marsha Ward

Blood at Haught Springs by Marsha Ward

Wes Haught wants his brother to grow up and tend to his share of the chores at the family’s general store. Lonnie Haught dreams of the day he can leave home and use his gun. Both brothers resent the added work their father’s recent accident has laid on them. When a new family arrives in Haught Springs, Wes falls for the fair-haired daughter, while Lonnie […]

May 30, 2016 / 0 Comments
A Fire That Heals by D Vansen

A Fire That Heals by D Vansen

Serena is devastated when her lifelong friend, Aminadab, is banned from Zarahemla for abandoning his faith and persecuting the saints. To add to her despair, she loses the rare ruby her father entrusted to her. Unbeknownst to her, Aminadab finds the ruby and takes it as his only reminder of Serena. Now an outcast, he joins the company of dissenters seeking refuge among the bloodthristy […]

May 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman

Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman

When Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds his life in shambles. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. There’s just one problem: he must convince his father to let […]

February 9, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Envisage by MM Warren

The Envisage by MM Warren

All her life, Andelyn has carried an unusual rock. It never leaves her for long. She doesn’t know where it came from—just that it is the one thing that truly belongs to her. She has no memory of her family or her childhood, which is almost as unsettling as a lifetime of hiding from a shadow that is dangerous and impossible to identify. When strangers […]

November 24, 2015 / 1 Comment
Ascendance: The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Ascendance: The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen

One war. Too many deadly battles. Can a king save his kingdom, when his own survival seems unlikely? War has come to Carthya. It knocks at every door and window in the land. And when Jaron learns that King Vargan of Avenia has kidnapped Imogen in a plot to bring Carthya to its knees, Jaron knows it is up to him to embark on a […]

February 25, 2014 / 2 Comments
Evertaster: The Buttersmith’s Gold by Adam Glendon Sidwell

Evertaster: The Buttersmith’s Gold by Adam Glendon Sidwell

An Evertaster Spin-off. Battles, Blueberries, Bovines. Everyone knows the most coveted treasure of the Viking Age was blueberry muffins. Blueberry muffins so succulent that if you sniffed just a whiff, you’d want a whole bite. If you bit a bite, you’d want a batch; if you snatched a batch, you’d stop at nothing short of going to war just to claim them all. Young Torbjorn […]

May 7, 2013 / 0 Comments