One Year On Meade Street
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Meade-Street-Patrick-Sean/dp/1492299340/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379586614&sr=1-1&keywords=one+year+on+meade+street 13 year-old Jimmy McGuire loves to see things burn. Matchsticks in the old neighborhood theater. Plastic soldiers in the basement. The riled up anthill in the vacant lot across the street. He wants to resurrect a dying snake. Look at the stars at night and imagine undressed Martian Girls, and make a pipe bomb rocket that will reach the stratosphere (or accidentally kill someone). He wants to win the local Soapbox Derby race, but he has no wheels for his racer, so he wants to “borrow” them from a neighbor’s wagon. Just until he wins the race. He’s a good kid. Skip Morley just wants to keep his next-door neighbor and best friend out of trouble, but Jimmy’s tongue is golden. It’s a losing battle time and again. Midway through that fateful year Skip meets Carol Hudson, the prettiest girl in the neighborhood. Jimmy meets Sara Bernstein—“Gins”—a wannabe Beatnik from Manhattan. All the bets change. But before they meet their first loves, Jimmy and Skip will meet “The Skulls”, the most vicious gang around in a series of running battles that could spell death for someone. Open the doors to One Year On Meade Street, a remarkably different coming of age romantic comedy. September, 2013 Rising In the spectacular and corrupt city of Polit, sixteen year-old Alana Bendrece and her family live in squalor, in a walled-in ghetto aptly named Black. After having killed an attacker from outside her caste neighborhood, she is arrested, quickly tried, and then condemned. Hours later, Alana is flown in a Helicere II aircraft to a land far, far away. An island only a chosen few even know exists. A place reserved for "special cases". Blindfolded, and with her hands lashed behind her back, she is pitched out the cargo door as the aircraft approaches the island. Terrified, she falls, and falls, and falls… But death doesn’t capture young Alana, rather the cords of a vast net stretched along the shoreline of a frightening beach. What awaits her in this strange new land is at times confusing, wonderful, and yet more horrific than anything she has experienced in her life. There are people inhabiting the amazing island called "Folly"; those who live high in the massive branches of five hundred foot-tall trees, and those who dwell in a Medieval-like walled city many miles away from the mighty giants of the lush forest. Alana soon discovers that despite her rescue by a young tree dweller, someone living in one or the other—or both—of these vastly different groups on Folly wants her dead, and they will destroy the island and every person on it in order to get it done. Yet, Alana has a power. One that even she is unaware of. Her challenge will be to evade capture and torture, and in the process discover the true depths of this gift, and rescue those she has come to love. Dreams of Shadows Christmastime, 2017. With a sudden, nuclear-like flash of light, the population of the planet is decimated. Every living human, save one Amelia McDougal, a 15 year old girl living in Marysville, California has perished. Or so the young girls thinks until she meets Munster Gardella, a devil-may-care boy her age. Their days are filled with scavenging, wandering through the small neighborhood they once called home, and wondering what happened that caused the calamity. They get their first clue when a strange, ominous, vapor-like being emerges from the shadows near a now-deceased friend's home, and then pursues them. Taking refuge inside a church rectory, Amelia and Munster discover two other survivors—a black brother and sister hiding inside a closet. And then two grisly-looking adults bent on doing them harm. Munster rescues the three young would-be victims, and fearing more of the same in the city, they strike out in search of safety elsewhere. The four kids stumble upon a house set back in an orchard, miles south of the city limits, and there Munster sees a flash of light from a window. Friend or foe? Munster decides to investigate, and that is when the nature and meaning of what happened to the planet begins to unfold in the terrifying, yet oddly promising days and events that follow. |