High-school junior Clio
Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a
working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.
While hoping to work as the clown in
an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his
junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness,
hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
Running
with the Wind John Foley
Struggling to find a direction for
his life after his legal guardian dies and his girlfriend goes off to college,
high school graduate Jackson O'Connell takes a job working in a boatyard and learns
how to sail.
Intellectually and athletically
gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the
gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and
recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his
two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This
year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge,
given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But
catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other
summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known
to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the
swim team.
Dr.
Franklin’s Island Ann Halam
When their plane crashes over the
Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island
and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on
humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Young Razo travels from Bayern to
Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the
Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is
responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
