Young Adult Novels
Explore captivating stories by Robin Roberts.
Gabriella talks too much when she’s nervous. Combine that with being a junior who has the body of a middle schooler, and she’s convinced no one will like her at her new school. Her fix: make herself into someone quieter and more reserved.
Her act works. She finds friends. But to keep up her ruse, she must second-guess her every move and she’s not always successful. One boy, Marsh, sees through her act. But he has a reputation for being dangerous, so no one talks to him.
Gabriella doesn’t believe what the others say.
To her, Marsh is sweet, kind of hot, and with him, she doesn’t have to put on a show. She could really fall for a guy like him, except—is he safe? Her new friends say he is hiding something. If Gabriella can find out what it is, maybe she can trust him.
But as she delves into his past, she quickly discovers that some secrets are meant to be kept silent.
And his truth
could kill.
An emotional novel of first love with a hint of thriller.
—Because sometimes what isn't said hurts.
Debut Novel: Moving On
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ARE YOU REAL?
When life without forgiveness becomes a cell with no door.
Sixteen-year-old Chrissy made the worst decision of her life. She tried to help BFF Janice get over her fear of jumping off the high dive— by pushing her off. Now Janice is paralyzed and may never walk again. Chrissy tries to apologize, but Janice's mom says Janice isn't ready to talk and when she is, she’ll call Chrissy. Only Janice never calls. After months of suffering with agonizing guilt, Chrissy is relieved when her architect Dad takes the family with him on a summer remodeling job in another state. Maybe the time away from the reminders of Janice will give Chrissy the chance to come to terms with the horrible thing she’s done.
The locals say the school Dad’s working on is haunted by something terrifying. But Chrissy believes the guy her age she sees hanging around is a runaway squatting in the attic. She tracks him down and apparently, she’s right—a real live boy named Ethan lives up there. One who tells her he’s hiding because, like her, he’s hurt someone he loves and can’t apologize. But the more Chrissy learns about Ethan, the more she notices something is off about him. He forgets things, gets angry when he's confused, and one day, disappears right in front of her. Ethan might think he’s a normal teen, but he isn’t. What’s worse, when confronted with the fact he isn’t alive, his supernatural powers go haywire. Chrissy, after dodging shattered glass and whirlwinds of flying debris, must accept that the locals are correct about the ghost haunting the school. He’s dangerous. As Ethan spirals more and more out of control, Chrissy, who wrestles with her own guilt, must get him to deal with his, before someone else she loves gets hurt.
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The Cross of the Rising Sun
Sixteen-year-old Charlie is an outsider at school. Cut-off from the use of social media by his mom’s strict religious rules, he blames her for not having friends. He craves a way to get out from under her suffocating influence, so when she offers to give him his deceased father’s car, he thinks he’s found an answer. Only there’s a catch. He has to agree to take her on a crackpot hike across a Utah desert to search for a cross-shaped rock where her pastor told her she’ll see God.
Things go haywire when soon after they head out on Mom’s quest, the walk up on a man committing murder. He immediately makes it clear he’ll shoot them dead to shut them up. They manage to escape, but are unarmed and running in the desert, while a man with rifle and a Jeep follows in hot pursuit. Charlie must rely on his long-ago memories of camping trips with Dad to save himself and Mom. Until—Mom’s hurt and they have to stop running. Charlie, who only wanted to find a way to get away from his mother, now must risk it all to fight and save her.
Keepers of the Rising Sun
In the land of the Rising Sun, all who are born with dark skin and night-seeing eyes are considered marked and are immediately enslaved. For those who bear these characteristics also hold magical abilities, and history proves magic is to blame for all evil in the land. Any of the marked who prove to wield power are quickly put to death.
Slayer is marked and enslaved. He’s been raised to fight in the kingdom’s Uldas Death Games, and he must kill to stay alive. A champion, he’s famous across the land. What isn't known is he's horribly afraid. After being confined for most of his seventeen years, he fears open spaces where attackers can sneak up on him. He's also terrified someone will learn why a boy can fight men and survive.
But someone does discover his secret. A girl, chained near him in the dungeon. To silence her, he adds her to his list of those he hopes to kill. Only, when the chance presents itself, he can't do it. For fates have tied his story to hers, and she isn’t what she seems to be. She's embroiled in a deathly struggle with the true cause of evil, and it is Slayer's magic that might tip her scales towards victory. If only he knew how to control it.
Cruel Ends
Young adult survival story. After a world-shattering earthquake destroys Earth, Blue must find a safe place for himself, his younger sister and brother before rising anarchy destroys the last of civilization.
I Snuck A Cell Phone into Heaven
Thirteen-year-old Celly knows plenty about the becoming and being in the circle of life. Only, now that she stands in the misty hereafter in front of a door marked The Path to the Future it’s the unknown last section, she cares most about.
Saint Peter, who guards The Path to the Future, takes one look at the backpack Celly wears and bars her entrance into Heaven. Only the dead with unresolved issues arrive before him with items of their past. Celly can't go on unless she finds her peace of mind. He leaves her with the task of writing down her sins in hopes she’ll discover what’s troubling her. Instead, Celly searches her bag, finds her phone and tries to reach her family and friends. No one answers except her ex-best friend, Charlie, who hates her. Their broken friendship might be the problem that keeps Celly from moving on. Only Charlie won't accept her apologies.
Charlie’s dad is in Heaven. If Celly can somehow sneak in and give Charlie’s Dad the phone, Charlie will get one last chance to talk to his father. Charlie will be so happy, he’ll have to forgive her, she'll feel better, and Saint Peter will have to let her stay. But when Celly succeeds in sneaking over the Path to the Future, she finds there are reasons no one with regrets is allowed to go forward. Walls grow from nothing, giant thorny hedge animals threaten to scratch her, and the hounds of Hell are hot on her trail. She needs out quick but can’t find the way. Celly’s search for forgiveness now means the difference between an eternity in happiness or one trapped in terror.
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