12-year-old Taryn Jacobson’s only getting revenge when she tells her little brother she wants the monsters to take him. After all, he did coat her TV – and her face – in spit wads, but then Luke gets sent to his room and vanishes without a trace.
Hours later, two men claiming to be Sandmen emerge from the shadows of her room and tell Taryn that monsters are not only real, they’ve kidnapped her brother. If she wants to fix her family, she’ll have to give up her humanity and become a Sandman to protect the borders between realms and keep their inhabitants safe from one another.
But there are some who wish to return the world to its rightful state by destroying the borders and unleashing every mythical creature known to man. They’ve even kidnapped the next generation of Sandmen to ensure their plan’s success, only they made a mistake: they took Luke when they should’ve grabbed Taryn. Who knew ‘Sandman’ wasn’t literal?
Now the whole world depends on her. Taryn’s choices aren’t that great: leave her brother to possible death and let the world tear itself to pieces or become the first female Sandman, fix her shattered family, and – oh yea – save the world.
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Peace in Pieces -- YA Literary Contemporary -- Work in Progress
The Daniels twins have been inseparable since the day they
were born; best friends with Ben, the boy down the street, they’ve never needed
anyone else. But when Elliot never comes home from school then turns up dead a
week later, Ellie doesn’t know how to keep going and shuts everyone out, even
Ben.
With her parents locked in their room mourning Elliot in
private, she returns to school, struggling to get through each day without any
incidents, without any fights, to understand her changing relationship with her
best friend. And then another boy goes missing and gives Ellie new purpose.
To bring her family peace and stop a budding serial killer, Ellie
must piece together Elliot’s tragic murder and catch his killer before she
becomes collateral damage, or worse, loses the one person she has left.
