Todd Strasser

Shelby has the perfect life--sports cars, shopping sprees, a fashion-photographer father. But her glamorous world unravels when three of the girls her father had photographed go missing--and her dad is the prime suspect. As dark secrets emerge from his past, perhaps he's not as innocent as he seems.

Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

"A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn't feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed"-- Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative. Hailed as a hero, being considered for a Silver Star, Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured...

The vet forces Wordsworth to go on a crash diet, but Wordsworth has other ideas and orders a very expensive meatloaf for himself and all his friends.

When Jake Sherman finds Sant Claus in his backyard, Santa is tired of the demands, the schedules, the weather at the North Pole. He hands Jake an envelope, and suddenly Jake finds himself in a red suit at the mall being swarmed by small children and babies.

Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.

"In the middle of the night Garrett is kidnapped from his home to Harmony Lake, a disciplinary boot camp for troubled teens. Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his pride, Garrett is abused almost to his breaking point. He won't be allowed leave until he admits his "mistakes" and conform completely ... whether he's guilty or not. Then Garrett hears whispers of an escape plot --incredibly risk-- if he's caught, the consequences will be unthinkable...

The Tardy Boys find their school's indoor hockey rink taken over by penguins.