"Barry deftly portrays the capricious nature of teen friendships, adolescent peer-pressure, and the kill or be killed nature of a middle school's social scene in her signature style. In an authentic teen voice full of diffidence and melodrama, the bespectacled and freckled Maybonne relates all of life's indignities on equal measure. Heartbreaking stories of a broken home, child molestation, an alcoholic absentee father and a bitter mom emerge between...

"Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her famous ancestor, and those monsters are not going to let her ignore her true calling anytime soon. The Shelley family history is filled with great writers: the original Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, the...

"Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures--and to the land itself--in a way she never imagined. Collects issues 1-16 of Harrow County."--Amazon.

"Team Alchemical: A group of Magical Girls who defend their city from fiendish monsters that prowl by night. The adoring idol culture surrounding these girls, along with the genuine life-or-death struggles they face each night, forces them to grow up quickly and under severe pressure. When tragedy strikes, the team's least confident supporting member, Undine, must step up and learn to fight her own battles" --

"Maria's bold attitude may be exactly what she needs when she inspires an unlikely ally to come to her defense. And when she's given the task to lead her class in a choral competition, she's going to need all the gumption she can muster!" -- from publisher's web site.

"Crafted from the corpses of battlefield casualties, a race of immortal soldiers called "the undying" fought a bloody war for their human creators. When the war ended, they were eradicated in the name of God at the hands of those for whom they had fought endlessly ... Eighty years later, an orphaned girl named Kieli questions if that God even exists. Unable to bear the hypocrisy of living, spirit-sensitive Kieli spends more time with ghosts ignorant...

In this final volume of the series, Hatsumi needs to choose between the three hunks in her life--her childhood friend turned male model, her adopted older brother, and her on-again-off-again boyfriend.

"Meet Maria Kawai-she's gorgeous and whip-smart, a girl who seems to have it all. But when she unleashes her sharp tongue, it's no wonder some consider her to be the very devil! Maria's difficult ways even get her kicked out of an elite school, but this particular fall may actually turn out to be her saving grace...Maria encourages antagonistic Ayu to be true to her feelings, but that simple action snowballs into a huge rift within their class! As...

Asuna and her friends want to give Negi some fun in the sun at the beach before they all set out on a dangerous journey to the Magical World. But then Negi's childhood friend Anya crashes the party--and all hell breaks loose when her jealousy goes nuclear!

"As the holidays wind down, Kieli continues her 'research trip' with her companions-- Harvey, a near-immortal soldier known as an Undying, and the Corporal, a soldier's spirit possessing an old radio. Their fates irrevocably intertwined by a bloody war waged eighty years ago, Harvey has promised to help the Corporal pass on by returning him to his final resting place, even with Kieli tagging along. But when saying their last good-byes to the Corporal...