Thicker Than Water
In this high-interest novel for teens, Zack has to decide between betraying a family member or losing a friend when an eighteen-year-old girl goes missing.
Orca Soundings are short, high-interest novels written specifically for teens. These edgy stories with compelling characters and gripping storylines are ones they will want to read. Reading levels from grade 2.0 to 4.5; Interest level ages 12+.
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In this high-interest novel for teens, Zack has to decide between betraying a family member or losing a friend when an eighteen-year-old girl goes missing.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, four friends get caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Tom and Kat get caught up in a kidnapping while in Mexico on spring break.
In this installment of the high-interest Retribution series for teen readers, Jace tracks down his birth family.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jackson gets in over his head when he tries to save a girl from her drug-dealer boyfriend.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jane finds her soulmate at a Baptist reform school.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Sam hops on a freight train to seek out the dad who abandoned him when he was a baby.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Kenzie’s dog is stolen by a dog-fighting operation.
In this next installment of the high-interest Retribution series, Raven goes undercover to find the link between a pharmaceutical company and a wave of teen suicides.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Josh discovers a virtual town that is eerily similar to his own.
In this next installment of the high-interest Retribution series, Josie and her friends team up again to figure out why so many homeless teens are ending up in the city morgue.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, pop sensation Darius Zaire wakes up to discover he has somehow been transported back to his old, completely ordinary life.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Megan learns that her father is a convicted terrorist and that her mother has been living under an assumed name for fifteen years.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Maya is involved in a car accident while on vacation in Palm Springs.
In this high-interest novel for teens, Riley learns that the color of your skin does affect how you are treated.
In this high-interest novel for teens, Tom realizes someone close to him is committing crimes on the Detroit River, but can he stop them in time?
In this high-interest novel for teens, Lizzie has to protect herself from her mother's boyfriend while looking out for her brother.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a girl struggles with the threats that her abortion-providing parents are receiving and the reactions of her girlfriend's family.
Javvan is on probation and struggling to stay out of trouble. Finding a job is even harder.
Stealing cars to get by and pay her debts, Raven excels at urban climbing and takes pride in her job—until she is forced to take sides and bring down a car-theft ring in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.
Jace has taken up boxing on the wrong side of the tracks as he prepares to seek vengeance on his abusive father with two other teen vigilantes in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.
When Daniel falls for the hottest girl in school, he ends up unwittingly running drugs across the border.