"If you're too weak to live, then you deserve to die."For twenty years Felix Black has lived under the thumb of the man who killed his parents. Impressed into the brutally austere lifestyle of the murderous criminal group CO9 when he was just a child, Felix has learned how to survive on meager rations and impossibly demanding training.Despite this, Avery, his kidnapper, continues to call him weak. Chafing under Avery's taunting mantra that the weak deserve ...

After 15-year-old Michelle's older brother Damien throws her into a bookcase, she realizes it's time to leave. With both parents dead and all of Damien's money filling the fridge with alcohol instead of food, there's no reason to come back. She sets out to live permanently in a field away from Damien and his drunken friends in hopes that stolen candy bars are sustenance enough.When she arrives, however, she finds she's not the only one who needs the land. Sixteen-year-old J is both...

"All Hope Is a Lie."Felix has been terrified of Lyme for his entire life.It doesn't matter that he and Sasha have escaped from CO9.It doesn't matter that memory and destiny keep seeming to converge right when he needs them most.Lyme is still unkillable.And now he's coming.Ashes is the much-anticipated sequel to Nine Lies Book 1: Weakness.

"Sometimes you have to make your own justice."Felix knew this day was coming.The day he would break out of one nightmare only to be shattered in another.The day he would wake up in chains, unable to move, unable to see, with both legs broken and both arms snapped.Death would be a mercy, but there is no mercy in this place. There isn't even justice. There is only vengeance.Vengeance is Book 4 in the Nine Lies Series.

"Some sins can't be forgiven."Maybe justice will at last be done. Maybe finally he can atone for the atrocities he has committed.That's what Felix hopes when he submits to the authorities and allows himself to be locked up in Saevus Prison.That's what he believes when the whole prison learns about his nightmares and finds out about his fear of saws.That's what he expects when he hears rumors that the Sandmen and the Megas are watching him an...

Fifteen-year-old Kayden may have two prosthetic limbs, but underneath his master's robotic improvements, he's still only human. Or is he? Slaves aren't afforded any rights in the seedy city of Wurszel, and Kayden's violent owner, the criminal inventor Dr. Malphanx, has no time for mercy.When Kayden gets caught by the police and his master's precious collateral gets confiscated, Malphanx's brutality shifts into high gear and a series of increasingly harrowing events are set into mot...

Stephen Shulevitz remembers the end of the world. Two o'clock in the morning on a Saturday night, in Riverside, Nova Scotia when he realises he has fallen in love - with exactly the wrong person.There are no volcanic eruptions. No floods or fires. Just Stephen, watching TV with his best friend, realising that life, as he knows it, will never be the same.The smart move would be to run away - from Riverside, his overbearing hippie mother, his distant pot-smoking father - and ...

An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Raven Cycle, taking place after the events of The Raven King.

Juvenile delinquent and budding pyromaniac Max Segredo belongs in juvie hall. At least, that's what his most recent foster family would tell you. Instead, Max ends up on the doorstep of Merry Sunshine Orphanage-their very heavily guarded doorstep. As he begins to acclimate to his new home, Max learns a few things straightaway: first, cracking a Caesar Cipher isn't as hard as it seems; second, never sass your instructor if she's also holding throwing knives; and third, he may not be an orph...

A wonderfully strange yet poignant tale of accepting the truth about oneself.Magrit lives in an abandoned cemetery. She is as forgotten as the tiny graveyard that surrounds her. One night a passing stork drops a strange bundle into the graveyard. Master Puppet, her friend and advisor, tells her it is an awful, ugly, terrible thing and that she should get rid of it. But Magrit has other ideas.

If it's fun and adventure you're looking for, then this ... is the book for you!Sam's life seemed to be heading down the toilet since his little sister, Miss 'I'm sooo good' Smelly Melly Prissy Pants was born.But in the 'sticks' of Agnath he found a best friend, Jared, a tall skinny red-head with a gazillion freckles.And when underground tunnels are discovered right below them, it's Sam that encounters the deadly inhabitants.These adventures are like no othe...

A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary SotoThe fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both boys and girls, narrators of various ethnicities fall in love for the first time, pine over crushes, and brood over broken hearts. Tender, lighthearted, and surprising, this collection will capture teens, tweens, and anyone who remembers what it’s like to be a young person in l...