Jessica Mchugh: 14 books

Being a teenager is complicated when you’re only eleven, but I am soooooooo ready for the challenge. "Every now and then you get the chance to connect with a book, to find a story and a group of characters that tickle all the happy, nostalgic parts of your brain and takes you back to places...

Cigarettes, shoplifting, and show choir.... I’m sure it will be a doozy of a 7th grade! "Between the annoying older brother, mostly supportive parents with their own problems, and all the anxiety of early puberty, Darla reminded me of my earlier teenage years in an almost uncomfortably realistic...

Patience is for people without worlds to conquer. I’m practically a teen, and I have ZERO patience. "This novel has the potential to be to a modern audience what [Judy] Blume's works were to girls of the 70s and 80s, and its blunt honesty and relevant topics make it the preferable choice."...

A descent into terror. Legends tell of a hollow earth, a world beneath our own. A world filled with wonders... and danger. But what if the legends are true? Delve into dark worlds in HELLHOLE, where death lurks around every corner, and come face to face with creatures from your worst...

COFFIN HOP: DEATH BY DRIVE-IN is a collection of stories from the ranks of the annual Coffin Hop online horror extravaganza. Brains from Space! Robot Squids Gone Wild! Radioactive Microwave Men! Monster Mash Massacres! Crotch Tentacles! Werewolf lovin’! Vengeful Gods! Hot-Rod Hauntings! Alaskan...

Get ready to unwrap your gifts early this year! Stuff your festive stockings with this collection of the weirdest, wildest holiday fiction this side of Charlie’s Dickens. Get your bells jingling and jangling with these tales of mistletoe madness, festive fury, and holiday havoc from some of the...

Three best friends, thirty-two cats, one amazing mystery—I just hope I don’t cause too much trouble before 9th grade. "Darla Decker has to be one of my favorite young adult protagonists. In this volume as in each of its precedents, Darla faces the challenges of adolescence and growing up,...

Elves aren't the only sexy ones, you know. In these modern post-Hobbit days, it is high time we culture acknowledged one simple truth: dwarves can, in fact, be smokin’ hot. From the deep, rich and remote places of the world come legends of these fascinating beings: earthen men and women, fae kings,...

This year, the secrets are coming out. Ooh, 8th grade is gonna be so juicy! "What I like about this series is the personal way it relates the female coming-of-age experience, something of a mystery for male readers, but worth looking into for any guy who wants a closer understanding of...

The dream that brought Maladrid and Yven together also tore them apart, but their tale isn't nearly over. When Yven, Queen of the Hohmara, discovers the truth in the story Maladrid left behind, she sets out with her childhood friend, Dordin, to fight the darkness in Lochydor and accept the fact that...

He is dreaming tonight...Sometimes, the only way to escape a doomed existence is to dream yourself into a world where salvation is possible. It is such a dream that leads a commoner named Maladrid into the heart of Dominhydor: an uncommon world fraught with war, magick, and a destiny he never expected....

More than a decade after the defeat of the ancient demon Forla, Dominhydor is at peace. With King Palaplia governing in the east and Queen Yven and Prince Telinhe in the west, Hohmara and Lyraera are united, renegades are coaxed into retirement, and war seems like a distant nightmare. But not everyone...

The largest and most hostile creature in the galaxy needs an heir.Eibal has grown embryos for nearly every species in the galactic web. As a “sympathetic genetic,” she and her crew provide procreation services to infertile creatures like the gentle yaerla, the star-sea kreb, and the third...

SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION Contains new material as well as a bonus short story, “Crazed in Christmas City” AND an excerpt of HARES IN THE HEDGEROW, the highly anticipated sequel to RABBITS IN THE GARDEN. Being a teenager is hard enough, but growing up in an asylum could drive anyone...