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In Crossing Tracks, set in 1971, 18-year-old Tink embarks on a transformative journey riding freight trains across America to attend a prestigious NASA seminar in Missoula, Montana. Haunted by her father's tragic farm accident, she seeks solace and redemption through her dreams of becoming an astronaut. Along the way, she encounters a diverse cast of characters who challenge and inspire her, as she learns valuable lessons about resilience, compassion, and the true essence of humanity. The rugged landscapes and unpredictable encounters shape her understanding of herself and the world around her, ultimately leading her to discover her inner strength and identity as she pursues her passion for space exploration, determined to rise above her painful past and embrace her future among the stars.
Orange Detention is a trio of middle-school stories about real-life issues they face today. The first story, Orange Detention, is a story about a fifth grader whose great-grandfather holds a special place in her heart, a place she defends passionately. Locker 652 recounts the first day of sixth grade for a twelve-year-old boy with a huge pimple on his nose. What he learned in school that day wasn't taught in the classroom and it changed his life. Coach Life is the story of a ten-year-old's perception of living in a trailer park, Magic Meadows. Her magnanimous heart and self-awareness explore life lessons for children and adults.
Earth, 2366 is a post-pandemic world of sterile women, baby factories, and bots. Adelya Ford, born into a family legacy of technology titans, dodges attempts on her life, flirts with romance, and leads a covert attack to silence the Android Police's world-wide eavesdropping. Triggered by hitting a goose, Ady is sentenced to two years on a Mars outpost. Accident after accident leads to one conclusion: someone wants her dead. Dodging a Martian saboteur, she discovers a secret colony of ancestors and an approaching alien spacecraft but can't identify her would-be killer. Upon returning to Earth, she discovers her missing mother hid genetic research in Ady's mega-brain at the baby factory--information that could thwart the Android Police's secret plans to exterminate humanity. She's Elma York (The Calculating Stars) meets Tom Swift's penchant for invention.
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Ady is back. She's in eighth grade now and her nemesis, Duke, is back, too. But things are a lot different these days. Social pressures, cell phones, and the all-important eighth grade dance land Ady in trouble withe Mr. P, the principal, again.Two new stories accompany Ady's tale. A wizened old man known as Rizzle moves in next door to Shayne. Over the years, he teaches Shayne a thing or two about whittling. But maybe those lessons extend far beyond a few shavings on the floor and can help Shayne learn self-confidence and belief in himself.Rotten looks on the other side of the fence, maybe to peek at what makes a bully tick. An unlikely turn of events and a tragic story of violence collide in juvenile hall and the homelife of eighth grader Spud. Sometimes a little magic can change the world.
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Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
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