Claudia: 2015 books

Friendly Fire begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Seth’s father figure and personal Lucifer is acting crazy. A day later, Seth learns that his mother wants him to find something that his biological father left at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital. Standing in the lobby of the place...

It’s pay the piper time in Denver Cereal as the trauma and strife of the last few months must be reckoned with. Aden recovers from his life threatening beating to face his jail sentence. Delphie comes to terms with almost dying. Mike paints while Valerie takes on her first action movie role. Sandy...

Alexandra “The Fey” Hargreaves meets death at the bottom of the pool, and a roller coaster of action and intrigue takes Alex and her team through New York missile sites, Parisian bookstores, and sunflower fields only to finally come to terms with the murder of the Fey Special Forces Team. Hunted...

Readers say: Suffer a Witch is "awesome" and "addicting."They call her "Em." Em is for Martha. Em for "Emogene Peres," the name she received in Boston less than a day after she'd been hanged in Salem Village in September 1692. In the hours after death, Em and most of those hanged as Salem...

Abee Normal, her great, etc. grandmother Ma’am, Goji the Goblin hunter, Tippi the sprite return in three more episodes of Abee Normal, Paranormal Investigations. Set in the deep South of the United States, Abee, her Ma’am, and friends solve paranormal problems for cash. In the Case of the...

Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother's lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school...

Kelsey Green is the best reader in the third grade--well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal Mr. Boone announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, she knows...

Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary event form. We gather writers together, provide three story prompts, and give them 24 hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction. Our favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a...

Soon-to-be fourth-grader Mason Dixon does not want a pet, but his parents think it will be good for him. Goldfish dies soon after his arrival (from overfeeding). Mason is relieved. Hamster escapes. Mason is relieved. Cat has to go back because best friend Brody is too allergic to ever be at their...

Cooper's grandfather gives him and his little sister, Carly, deeds to square inches of land in the Yukon. Carly uses them to invent her own imaginary kingdom of Inchland—far away from the silence of their home, where their single mother stays in bed all day. When their mom comes out of her season...

Riley O'Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can't afford to rent him a sax, and he's sure he'll never save up enough money...

Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams's fifth-grade class who doesn't mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved into a motel, the only thing that brings Amanda any joy is writing her fictional diary entries about a young girl named Polly who lives amid...

Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc. No sooner have they done this, however,...

The sequel to Losers, Inc. and You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman As seventh grade begins, Lizzie Archer knows she can't endure another year of being derided as the class nerd. Maybe she can't stop being smart -- does she want to? -- but at least she doesn't have to look so different. Out...