Valerie Brook: 30 books

In the ancient world of Gwyndor, the mysterious legends of the hutsu hunters are passed down by oral tradition. They are the centenarians of the Northern Peaks, the witch hunters who protect the land from practitioners of the darkest arts—man, woman, and otherworldly. Wynd is a hutsu, and...

At seventeen, Melody's life is already heading in the wrong direction. From good girl to rebel; from straight-A student to near dropout. It's going to take a long run on the naked road to find her way home.

Magnificent Maggie Fontaine has been around the mysteries of magic all her life. But when she wakes up with an underage hangover and a talking press-on priestess tattoo on her arm, all Mag wants is for both things to go away. When Aunt Fabulous turns out to have vanished overnight, and it's up to Mag to find her guardian, will the strange talking tattoo be a help or a hindrance?

Tomas is not like the other captured boys—he's surrounded by the supernatural but can't find his own psychic power. When an evil monk high up on the mountaintop temple threatens Tomas, forcing him into a countdown to reveal his powers, will he find his gift or lose everything?

Sixteen-year-old Magnificent Maggie Fontaine is close to giving up on her oh-so-wrecked life. When she accidentally runs away from home, she doesn't even expect to make it very far before something worse happens. But running away might actually bring her closer to home, and when all hope is lost, a little bit of forbidden magic can change everything.

They come at night when Ember Janerro is sleeping, when she lies unconscious and vulnerable and alone. The slavers have always erased her memory as fast as they open the locked front door. Her mind is designed to offer no resistance, to keep her blankly imprisoned behind amnesic barrier. The perfectly...

In 1994 they sent me on assignment to the jungle, but the jungle changed me. To those agencies I worked for, who seek to rule the world, be afraid. We are the elite operatives you trained as children: We have turned on you. Because we can imagine a technological world in which there...

Felicia and Ruby are just about the best sixth grade friends with bicycles that ever existed in a trailer park. They do everything together, no matter what, including resisting being sucked into an 80's time warp at the local Pizzaria 'N Kabob Shop. One afternoon while trying out the career...

When Sierra wakes up naked in a stranger's bedroom, with no memory of how she got there, she knows her life is spiraling out of control. Someone is causing her to have blackouts that make no sense. Someone is playing tricks on her mind. It's time to admit the truth—she's really scared. And...

High schooler Pendelton Gonzales Johnman jumps out his bedroom to escape his abusive home life, made worse by wintertime football and his abusive father's losing team, to discover a man  on the railroad tracks. Penn makes a decision that will forever change his future.

When Mr. Dungaree accidentally time travels into the past, from a future that has faced an apocalypse and now lives underground, he never gives up on his mission to save the honorable chicken, and his love for eggs, from extinction.

One bad night is all it takes to change your life forever.  That's what happens to teenage wrestler, Cuba, when he's the victim of a brutal hate crime. It's going to take every bit of endurance this elite athlete's got to stay in the match, and survive this adrenaline-packed fight during the one night he will never forget.

Hannah Flannery, a clumsy art history professor, has never thought of herself as very important. Certainly not important enough for an entourage of professional government men to interrupt her favorite class and request her immediate personage. They won't explain why they need Hannah or where...

Welcome to the world of modern mind control, where children are tortured to evoke latent abilities beyond the average population and trained to become undetectable super spies—secret servants of an international elite known only as The Order. Caught up in a massive criminal enterprise intent on...