True love’s first kill.
Daniel looked up at me. His dark eyes searched my face. There was something different about those too-familiar eyes. Maybe it was the way the orange light from the streetlamp illuminated his pupils. Maybe it was the way he stared without blinking. His eyes made him look…hungry.
My name is Kyle Straker and I don’t exist anymore.
So begins the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on old audio tapes. You might think these tapes are a hoax. But perhaps they contain the history of a past world…
If what the tapes say are true, it means that everything we think we know is a lie.
And if everything is a lie does that mean that we are, too?
In the time before the shooting I was Leah Jackson sixteen years old. I used to wish my life was different but nothing is ever that simple. Is it?
It is Clara Wintermute’s birthday. A puppet master and his two orphan helpers have come to stage a spellbinding show in the vast, lonely Wintermute house. But that night, when the curtains close and darkness falls, Clara disappears.
The obvious suspects are Lizzie Rose and Parsefall, the two orphans. After all, Clara had everything they didn’t: food, luxury, a loving home. But the reality is far m ore sinister – and the two children may in fact be her only chance of escape. As they begin to unravel the truth, all three are caught up in a deadly struggle between the puppet master and a witch of extraordinary power.
What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?
Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last.
The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death – and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.
My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. What ever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school – and he’s dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted – but can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, WONDER is a funny, frank astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the last page.
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