Showing results for "John Thomas" in Teen & Young Adult

In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American government confiscated the homes, animals, businesses, and personal possessions of Japanese Americans, citizens all. At the Tule Lake Internment Camp, a Japanese American girl sought solace by retreating to the furthest edge of the camp’s barbed-wire enclosure. Outside the barbed-wire-crowned metal fence, with its frightening armed guard towers, a curious American boy one day cautiously approached on his bike to say a nervous hello to the girl who so intrigued him from a distance. This visit started four years of meetings.

Hailed as Italy’s The Fault in Our Stars, this Italian bestseller is now available for the first time in English. “I was born on the first day of school, and I grew up and old in just two hundred days . . .” Sixteen-year-old Leo has a way with words, but he doesn’t know it yet. He spends...

Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the...

Best-selling sportswriter and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another sports mystery featuring Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson—this one set at the summer Olympics in London. In this book, Susan Carol isn't a reporter—she's an Olympian, competing as a swimmer at her first Olympic games. Stevie is both proud and envious of her athletic prowess. And he's worried by the agents and sponsors and media all wanting to get up close and personal with Susan Carol.

New York City. The U.S. Open. With 128 athletes competing in dozens of matches for millions in prize money, you expect drama. You expect blistering serves, smashed returns, and sliced shots that kiss the line. You do not expect kidnapping. But Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson can’t come...

Lolland. Ligner en lort, der ikke vil skylles ud. Og nu skvulper den bare rundt i røven på resten af Danmark. Det er her, Johan bor. Det er her, han er født og opvokset. Der er også en overhængende fare for, at det er her, han snart vil ende sine dage i hænderne på landsbybøllen Jackie, eller som offer for en lollandsk vampyr. Der er nemlig sket det, at hele Lollands voksne befolkning er blevet forvandlet til vampyrer. Inklusiv hans bedste ven, Jacob, selv om han slet ikke er voksen.

Ausgerechnet in das verfallene Haus direkt neben dem Friedhof ziehen Brad und seine Mutter ein. Bald bemerkt Brad einen unheimlichen Totengräber, der ewige Lichter auf den Gräbern verteilt, die seltsam grün brennen. Es scheint, als ob er die Geister der Toten beschwören und unter seinen Willen zwingen könnte. Als auch Brad die Macht des Totengräbers zu spüren bekommt, weiß er, dass er den Dämon mit allen Mitteln bekämpfen muss.