"Amber?" I ask again. Her silence is my answer. I instantly grab her wrists inspecting them. I saw what I never want to see. She had cut herself. There was one freshly cut mark. I was furious. "Why? Why would you do this to yourself Amber!?" I raised my voice. "Is this the only one? Have you cut yourself in other places?!" I yelled and she flinched back. I was still had her small wrists in my large hands. "Amber!" "Please stop! You said you would help me not put me down!" She yelled back yanking her wrists away from me. She began to get up out of the bed. "No, no Amber please don't." I grab her arm, making her turn to me. "Please don't. I'll help you, I'm sorry. Please just sit down.." She debated with herself and went to my bed. Okay I know the book is called bruised and one character does get beat, but this was just one of many interesting parts of the book..

We became the most awkward gang in highschool. The unstable popular guy, the insane clean freak, the insomniac delinquent, the talkative bookworm, and the arrogant gangster. We didn't want to be around each other, heck, I think we would rather break each others necks before we would ever get within a 1-foot radius near the other. But it wasn't our choice. No, that stupid excuse of an old fart drug us into this. Literally. So now we are attending higschool, risking our reputation by contacting the other. Some of us might actually form a real friendship- who knows. But what I do know is that this mess has come way too far- killing people, stealing, stalking- seriously? What has the world come to? Oh yeah. It might end. (Action/teen/romance. T for Teen Scenes/ Blood/Gore.)

Have you ever been so consumed in all your problems? Have you ever had a dream you felt like you could never accomplish? In this story Rain Dylan deals with all these things and more. Having a horrible first year of middle school, and having to deal with intense bullying, anxiety, stage fright, and insecurities, Rain is at her wits end. Not knowing what or who to turn too, she starts obsessing over the theater/singing kids. She imagines herself on stage wowing the crowd. But she always bounces back to reality realizing with her extreme stage fright, she could never do it. With the theater kids turning on her and bullying her, Rain starts reaching her lowest point. The schools music teacher Ms. Dee picks her back up. Introducing her to other children with her same problem, and giving her solo lessons to reach her goal. See how Rain reaches her goal, and wows everyone, in "Spotlight." a touching Teen Fiction Adventure By Hailey Steere.

Everyone has a blind side. They are naive about a certain part of life to the extreme that they completely disregard it. It's never happened to them, it probably never will. So why did they have to worry about it? But in a way, everybody that bad things happen to are probably the same. They think that nothing bad will happen to them. And then it does. And they're sat there asking themselves how they could have been so blind, how they could have been naive enough to let this happen to them. If they had just known more about what they experienced, they may have been able to prevent it. He had many blind sides, one of the many faults of being popular. You are generally blind to everything that goes on around you unless it's to do with your image. You turn ignorant. He turned ignorant. But when something or rather someone walks into his life, he is shown how to see the world in a different light. In the most ironic of ways.