Quite Contrary (50 page)

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, by Richard Roberts
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http://j.mp/1dd9eTi
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Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She’s got superhero parents. She’s got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn’t understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear.

In real life, nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero’s sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She’s good at it.

Sweet Dreams are Made of Teeth, by Richard Roberts
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http://curiosityquills.com/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-teeth/
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How does a nightmare hunt? He tracks your dreams into the Light, and chases them into the Dark. How does a nightmare love? With passion and obsession and lust and amazement. How does a nightmare grow up? With pain and grief and doubt and kindness and learning and dedication and courage. First Fang hunted, now he loves, and soon he’ll have to grow up.

Wild Children, by Richard Roberts
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http://curiosityquills.com/wild-children/
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Bad children are punished. Be bad, a child is told, and you’ll be turned into an animal.. The Wild Children are forever young, but that, too, can be a curse. Five children each tell a different story, of right being wrong and wrong being right, of love, learning… and death. Together they tell a sixth story, of a Wild Girl who can’t speak for herself, and doesn’t seem Wild at all.

Caller 107, by Matthew Cox
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http://j.mp/1n0HG1o
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When thirteen-year-old Natalie Rausch said she would die to meet DJ Crazy Todd, she did not mean to be literal.

Whenever WROK 107 ran contests, she would dive for the phone, getting only busy signals. At least, with her best friend, even losing was fun―before her parents ruined that too.

Her last desperate attempt to get their attention goes as wrong as possible. With no one to blame for her mess of a life but herself, karma comes full circle and gives her just a few hours to make up for two years’ worth of mistakes–or be forever lost.