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Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive than ever, the admissions essay may turn out to be the single most important thing they will ever write. The stakes are high. In Writing Tools for the College Essay, veteran journalist and writing coach Roy Peter Clark shows how any student can showcase their unique achievements, intellect, and attributes to stand out from the crowd.

One mistake and those I love could die. Hiding behind my brother and his friends has made it easy to keep my secrets, but since Merith came to Arda only months ago, my life has been wrecked. My father exposed, my brother obsessed...and now, because I let myself care about someone who is practically a stranger to me, I've been revealed as what I truly am. This curse's hold over me is irrevocable, my life more entwined in it than I can manage on my own.

Destruction. In a family of healers who save, all I do is destroy. My enforced solitude is for my own safety as well as that of the world, or so my mother tells me. When the boy next door beckons, I can't help but sneak out to forge a friendship with him. Loneliness leads me to defy my family, but desperation prevails when I discover that the grounds of his private academy hold a secret that could help me learn why my ability is so disastrous...or push me to create a catastrophe that will bring about my family's deaths.

Reanimate yourself for success with advice on life, love, and work from the undead!

Meet Luke Watson: reluctant werewolf and Scream Street’s latest arrival.

With his new friends Resus Negative (wannabe vampire) and Cleo Farr (tomboy mummy), Luke thinks Scream Street might just be somewhere he can call home. However, there’s one small problem: his parents are terrified by their new neighbors. Can Luke find the doorway back to the real world before they’re scared to death?

Quinn Robbins has never noticed William Rose at Bristlecone High School - not until the night she almost runs him down in her car. After that, she never stops noticing him. Because William is different than the other boys... Why does a high school senior always have his nose buried in medical journals? And how does he keep disappearing down by the river every Friday night?

Eighth grade started out as any typical school year for Genevieve "Vivvy" Benson and her friends Joanie and Ronnie. That was until the day Vivvy received a mysterious message on her computer warning her about new faces. Now all she needs to do is figure out if it was referring to the new art teacher, the new student, or something else entirely!

Henry Noble carries a heavy load. For the two years since the disappearance of his father, he has toiled as the family's chief breadwinner. Protector of his mother and two obnoxious younger brothers, he finds himself trapped in the drudgery of a boring job counting the King's gold, all the while dreaming of a life of magic and wizardry. When a glimmer of light appears, he snatches at it only to stumble into treachery and deceit. Henry and his timid friend Peter are forced to embark upon the scariest journey of their lives.

Not all wizards were born to be heroes. Things not to do when you find out you’re a wizard.

Falcon Quinn survived the first term at the Academy for Monsters along with his monstrous friends Max, Pearl, Mortia, and the rest. He has finally discovered his monster nature and is working hard to embrace it. But what does it mean to be an Angel, exactly?

Gerbert was a farmer's son in an obscure town in France, but his gifts of mind and intellect were so remarkable that even in the feudal world of the tenth century, he could rise far above his station. Princes and prelates courted him; emperors called him friend and teacher. He brought the lost art of mathematics back into Europe; he was an astronomer, a musician, a builder of strange and wonderful devices. In the end he reached the pinnacle of the world, a seat so lofty and an authority so great that he answered only to God Himself. But Gerbert was more than a simple professor of the mathematical arts, or even a prince of the Church.

Stone charming is the rarest form of art magic, used to manipulate stone and bring fantastical sculptures to life. When Briar, Archer, and the outlaws are hired to find a powerful stone charmer, they know how dangerous his magic could be in the wrong hands. Their old enemy, Lord Larke, wants the stone charmer too. Briar and Archer must race his minions across a snowy wilderness to the stone charmer's remote hideout. If they fail, Larke will use the power to threaten the entire kingdom. The journey will test Briar and Archer's bond. A secret they discover along the way could break it.

It’s the near future. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire, but … people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum, saying that he’s from the future—and telling her about the apocalypse that is to come—she refuses to believe him. But soon Stevie will have no choice.

My father pays heaps of money for doctors at the Norfolk Psychiatric Center to fix me. I've spent six months of my prime teenage years at this residential facility - a place for teenagers who've gone mental. Just when I begin to feel myself fade away, a boy with a wolfish smile and mischievous eyes reels me in. Julian is broken, too, but he believes in me enough for the both of us. Through him I begin to experience this thing called hope. Doctors can't fix me, my parents can't either, but maybe it's not me who needs fixing.

Geliebter Mörder? Abel Tannatek ist ein Außenseiter, ein Schulschwänzer und Drogendealer. Wider besseres Wissen verliebt Anna sich in ihn...

„Ich weiß ja nicht, was gerade in Tony Mitchells Kopf vorgeht, aber du nimmst auf jeden Fall eine Menge Platz darin ein.“ Als Tochter eines Generals hat es Samantha Summers mit siebzehn nicht gerade leicht. Von einem Kontinent zum anderen zu ziehen, mag ja helfen, vier Sprachen in Rekordzeit zu lernen, doch für das eigene Sozialleben ist es der Tod. Und als ihr in der neuen Schule dann auch noch dieser verboten süße Junge das Leben zur Hölle macht, möchte Sam die ganze Sache am liebsten hinschmeißen.

Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium called Latham House, he discovers an insular world with paradoxical rules, med sensors, and an eccentric yet utterly compelling confidante named Sadie - and life as Lane knows it will never be the same.

In the old, abandoned Greyford house on the outskirts of the Mayfield School for Girls, Delany would be completely and purposefully alone...or so she thought. Yet there was more to this house than first met the eye: There were secret passages and hidden treasures, lost and forgotten with the passing of time, and a room...a fantastic and otherworldly sort of room, which she had decided to call "the Window Room". This is a story about the dangerous and mysterious adventures she found there.

Kyle Thorne has everyone's back. His classmates and friends know they can count on him, but the pressure to be perfect after the chaos brought into Arda Academy when Merith Leigh brought her personal battle into the school is overwhelming. The two most important girls in his life have the power to both devastate and defend him: his younger sister Clare, always unreachable and distant; and his best friend Danica, strong and sure, and also completely unaware of his love for her.

Elybion is divided. With the last empire overthrown, the realm struggles for prosperity. Five destinies are revealed. The temple apprentice-turned-adventurer. The last empress of the fallen empire. The neglected son of the rebel king. The glory-seeking twins from the frozen south. Together, they will face a rising darkness and mysterious pursuers attracted to the Art Stone as they journey through Elybion in search of the truth.