AuthorsNow! » ghosts http://www.authorsnow.com The Internet's Largest Collaboration of Debut Children's and Teen Book Authors and Illustrators Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:00:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 THE HOLLOW by Jessica Verday http://www.authorsnow.com/the-hollow-by-jessica-verday/ http://www.authorsnow.com/the-hollow-by-jessica-verday/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:00:48 +0000 Jessica Verday http://www.authorsnow.com/?p=2414 THE HOLLOW by Jessica Verday

THE HOLLOW by Jessica Verday

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: October 6, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-4169-7893-0
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD

When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead…and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey has never felt so desperately alone. Then she meets Caspian, a gorgeous and mysterious stranger who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen’s funeral and keeps reappearing in Abbey’s life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he’s the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again…but also special.

Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen’s betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her – one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian as well as her own sanity.

]]> http://www.authorsnow.com/the-hollow-by-jessica-verday/feed/ 0 36.3699684 -86.7215195 PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE by Cynthea Liu http://www.authorsnow.com/paris-pan-takes-the-dare-by-cynthea-liu/ http://www.authorsnow.com/paris-pan-takes-the-dare-by-cynthea-liu/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:05:14 +0000 Cynthea Liu http://www.authorsnow.com/?p=427 PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE

PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
  • Release Date: June 11, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0399250439
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD

Twelve-year-old Paris Pan’s life is a mess. She’s just moved to a tiny town in Nowheresville, Oklahoma; her family life is a comical disaster; her new friends are more like frenemies; and the boy she has a crush on is a dork. Things couldn’t possibly get worse, until she discovers that a girl mysteriously died years ago while taking a seventh-grade rite of passage–the Dare– right near Paris’s new house. So when Paris starts hearing strange noises coming from the creepy run-down shed in her backyard, she thinks they could be a message from the ghost of a girl. But while she has no plans to make contact with the great beyond, her two new friends have other thoughts. Everyone who’s anyone takes the Dare, and now it’s Paris’s turn.

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