That night became so much more than what either of them intended.

Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never have understood. Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect? A riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins’s Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves. ***Listen to the attached videos to hear the characters read an audio version of "Perfect", voiced by various actors.***

This is a short poem of a guy and girl who are best friends, and one day the girl was told "guys and girls can't be best friends" and it inspired me to write this.

After an accident triggers her genetic mutation-turned-super powers, Aspen Duchannes and her (also mutant) Deaf brother Wilbur are sent to the Maxwell Academy to train and harness their powers. They refuse to participate for two years...until her brother decides he wants to attend. However, a day after associating with her unit of teenage mutants, the entire school is invaded. The people in her unit are the only survivors. On an adventure to uncover the raid's purpose, each student goes through love, hate, development, and everything in between to gain the knowledge of who raided the Academy in order to kill or imprison its students...and more importantly, why Aspen and Wilbur are so important to the leader. SEQUEL: Nothing Less Than Extraordinary

When seventeen year-old Runner was sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread in MegaCity One, his dreams were literally at an end. But then he opts to sign up for the Remnants of Men, a government sanctioned search for a rumoured fresh water lake beyond a radiated wasteland. At first, it seemed like a second chance to a new life, the transformation from zero to hero. But after an encounter with a rabid gang of men suffering an acute insanity, he soon comes to understand that he is one of many discarded into the wasteland to study the cannibalistic effects of a new drug called the Sixth Sense. Olivia Patterson has had one too many doses of the Sixth Sense and owes a massive debt to a shadowy rebel and loan shark called Death-Throe. Being the daughter of the City's dictator, she knows too well that the gallows awaits any who associates with the rebel. In an attempt to free herself, she acquires an asset in the form of Runner and finds herself always at the edge, for if he survives it means freedom for both, but if he dies...

We as a race have spent millennia warring and killing each other over everthing from God to Country, Money and Power, Love and Jealousy, or even simple Psychotic Rage. But now that Humanity has a new enemy to face, one from the stars with far superior technology. And it is now up to every Man, Woman, and Child to come together and make a choice: fight for their Freedom, no matter the cost and to the bitter end, or Surrender and face the implications of what that means...

As angels look down to the worlds below them, they have to abide by the rules set out by the higher circles of their kind. If you don't respect the rules, it will brand you as a Fallen, an angel unworthy of its wings. Fallen Angels are usually corrupted creatures without conscious or compassion... Caitlin on the other hand, is an angel who was deemed Fallen because her compassion drove her to save a soul. What happens if she's forced to live in the immortal and mortal worlds combined, next to the very thing she had saved before? What happens if she has to live with Vampires and Demons alike?