Annie Rustle raised her grandson, Jimmy Rustle after he lost his parents in a car accident. He and his best friend and neighbor, Lisa Parker spend a lot of time together. One Christmas Annie has an idea. Why not create a Christmas time-capsule ornament out of paper mache and insert a list of things the…
Blaire Thompson is a junior at Dysart High School in Phoenix, Arizona. She has dreams of becoming an Olympic skater. Her dad is a Chief Master Sergeant (CMS) in the Air Force, so like most military brats she’s moved around a lot—Spain, Germany, South Carolina, and now Phoenix. Unfortunately, the summer prior to senior year CMS Thompson…
Time columnist, Joel Stein had this to say in a New York Times opinion piece about adults reading YA books: “The only thing more embarrassing than catching a guy on the plane looking at pornography on his computer is seeing a guy on the plane reading The Hunger Games. Or a Twilight book. Or Harry…
Theresa Bordils, a teen orphaned at 12, lives within the safety of the Convent in Palma, Majorca. When the Office of the Inquisitor uncovers her activities in Magick, she is sentenced to burn at the stake, just like all the other witches. However, Theresa is not a normal human. She has been trained by Melchior,…
Quentin Jacobsen, his friends call him “Q”, is a senior at an Orlando, Florida high school. Since he can remember, he’s been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman, his next-door neighbor. At a young age, while biking near a neighborhood park the children found the dead body of an apparent suicide—an event that created an…
When Julie Reed got drunk, and it wasn’t often, she’d blame her hangover on the cherry. And no matter how badly hung over she looked, Will Parker thought the woman of his dreams was perfect. P.A. Estelle’s newest short YA short love story tells about Julie and Will’s romance. It all started when Julie was…
Matilda Fontanilla, better know as Tilda, is a mother of three beautiful children. Now 47, she discovers her husband, Christopher, has been unfaithful. Over the years he has shown little respect for her and has treated the children like strangers. So Tilda does what any smart woman would do in a failed relationship—divorce. Thus begins…