Code breaking, knife fighting, lock picking, wiretapping, digging up your new boyfriend's real identity...High School is educational! Then again, Chloe's dad is trying to kidnap her, the Principal wants to make her shower with the boys, she's going to have to appear in court, and she's got a fan. But he looks cute in a uniform, and swears he's in love with her. If only he didn't seem so crazy. But he's...Chloe's never felt like this, what's going on? The girls will learn who Annie really works for, what she does for a living, and why she carries a gun. How many internets are there? One just for the hoods? Who knew? Chloe acquires a stalker, and his plans for her are direct...and final. Volume Two of My Friend Chloe cranks up the suspense, and turns up the heat a bit, too, in more ways than one. WHO burned those houses down? How do you get your boyfriend out of jail when you're only 14?
Shamed? Bullied? Betrayed? Wish your parents stuck up for you, or your friends'd start a riot before they let anyone hurt you? Ever live undercover? Make do without loyalty or care, starve for basic love and respect, and walk through this world without a place to stop and think? Ever risk death just to be who you are? Meet Jane. She's not super, but she uses what she's got. She hasn't taken life or limb, but she's surprised people. She's survived, she hasn't needed anybody. That's about to change.
Ninth Grade's crazy, it's supposed to be; everybody's just getting their act together. But Vanessa's new friend is more like a best girlfriend than a boy. They're both smart, and when they see people playing assassination at the mall and passing enciphered messages in bus stop caches, of course they try to break the codes! But there's a real mystery here: Who's stalking them from the shadows? How do they know so many intimate details of their lives? Will the principal make good on his threat to expel them? Are they just in trouble, or mortal danger? Ness races to solve the mystery and save her best friend. The first in the "My Friend Chloe" stories, Bus Stop Dead Drop serves up suspense, romance, mystery, secret codes, cover stories, and answers the age-old question, "Can a transsexual win the Science Fair?
Chloe and Ness make a new friend. So naturally they get caught up in secret plots involving atomic weapons and Cabinet secretaries. They're still breaking codes, but these codes are coming from a cult. Or is the cult a front? And is it a front for some airhead drug users, or a foreign intelligence service? ""Maggie, I hope you're sane, 'cause I really like you."" Chloe smiled. ""You're brave, Chloe. You know how few people would say something like that?"" ""She was taken because her parents can build bombs. She'll have seconds to tell where she is, but you're the only ones who'll understand it."" Willie gave Maggie a knife. ""It's sharp. It's the sharpest thing you've ever handled. If you get clumsy, you can lose fingers, or cut an artery."" ""What makes it so sharp?"" ""I do."" Willie never blinked. Ness nodded, ""The good news is, she works at a coffee house. There's no such thing as too much coffee!
An old farmhouse overlooks the scenic Spoon River in western Illinois. It has stood there for over a hundred years, sheltering Bobby and Neoma Hanks and their children through the early years of the twentieth century until 1927, when they leave the farm. Their move to town has momentous consequences. By 1950 the family has split up and is scattered across the country from New York to California. Decades later, grandson Drew owns the farmhouse he has always loved and eagerly shares his cherished childhood memories with his younger cousin Sharon. But for Sharon, who grew up in a different place and time, memories of her own childhood home evoke very different emotions. After her mother's death, Sharon struggles to come to terms with her past and wonders whether life in the old house on the Spoon, where her mother was born, was really as idyllic as Drew remembers.
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