Marco Impossible

Marco ImpossibleBest friends Stephen and Marco attempt a go for broke heist to break into the high school prom and get Marco onstage to confess his love for (and hopefully steal the heart of) Benji, the adorable exchange student and bass player of the prom band. Of course, things don't always go according to plan, and every heist comes with its fair share of hijinks. Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz is a fun middle grade book by the author of young adult novels

A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house

As with his videos

who has claimed Earth as his own

and her greatest torment

) and strange disappearances

But in time

Front Lines is the saga of a modern teenage heroine in an alternate past that could only have come from the man who gave us GONE

the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen

and mercy part of their lives as they go out into the world to serve and learn from the most marginalized

Propelled by Charlotte Silver's sharp wit and gimlet eye for the foibles of 21st-century New York City

our penchant for violence

and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage