❇️ 2018 WATTYS WINNER! The Originals category ❇️ - "The Breakfast Club" meets "Nancy Drew" in this most unusual YA Mystery. SUMMARY: Five high school students, with little in common other than being descendants of the town founders, are forced to work on a history project together. But when their history project uncovers evidence of a long-buried town secret, the kids must piece together the clues behind their discovery before its legacy comes back to haunt them. ***** Using ACTUAL, archival material (some dating as far back as 1776), The Descendants weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue, constructed entirely from real photographs, documents, and snippets of history from a small, rural town in New Hampshire. What Dan Brown did with conspiracy theories in "The DaVinci Code" and Ransom Riggs did with historical photographs in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," I will attempt to do in "The Descendants," but with teen protagonists and the Cheshire County Historical Society. :-) Why? 'Cause I'm crazy like that! Yeah, I know...History?! Blah! But it actually turned out really fun! :-)

A chosen eighty-year-old chainsmoker armed with stab-tastic knitting needles and a metallic cane must be trained by Alice-a mysterious teenage girl-to complete her prophecy and save Earth. While this old prophet is close to completing her destiny, her mentor Alice struggles with her new hunger: she can now eat werewolves. She has the appetite of a growing teenager, hence the sudden disappearance of werewolves around the city. Although she's a heartless serial killer by day, at the strike of midnight, her thick skin falls and she is a vulnerable girl without memory of her werewolf killing ways. In fact, she forgets her identity as a killer and wanders aimlessly like a lost puppy who doesn't know what door knobs are until the sun rises. Which is a perfect chance for Isaac, the leader of the city's most feared werewolf gang, to strike her down. Unless they both fall of course. In love.

Adelaide is the newest patient at the Winthrop Mental Institute. She has been through trauma that has left her mad. So mad that she can't grasp onto reality and conjures up a false reality that consists of white rabbits, smiling cats, blue caterpillars, and queens with red hearts. Ever since her arrival, nurses and family members alike have tried to explain her situation to her. She can't believe it and loses herself in an alternate universe.