A fourteen-year old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--

Simon, Henry, and Jack Barker decide to ignore their parents' warning to stay away from Superstition Mountain in order to search for their missing cat Josie, but they begin to see the wisdom of their mom and dad's advice when they find three human skulls.

Cassandra Clare's Mortal instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of shadowhunters, vampires, werewolves, fairies and more, has captured the imaginations and loyalty of hundreds of thousands of young adult readers. Shadowhunters and Downworlders, edited by Clare (who provides an introduction to the book and each piece), is a collection of young adult authors writing about the series and its world.

"Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands"--