Books with author Elizabeth Bridgman

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Future Shock trilogy! It's been a year since Elena and Adam were first recruited by Aether Corporation and six months since they destroyed the accelerator. Now Elena's in college and Adam is working on making his cure for cancer safe for the public. But Adam will be anything to figure out his cure, and when he goes missing, Elena realizes that he's done the unthinkable: he went to Aether for help. Using Aether's new accelerator, Adam traveled into the future to find the fix for his cure, but he didn't come back when he was supposed to. Elena decides to risk future shock and time travels once more, but this future is nothing like they've seen before. Someone has weaponized Adam's cure and created a dangerous pandemic, leading to the destruction of civilization. If Elena can't find Adam and stop this, everyone is at risk. And someone will do anything to keep her from succeeding.

A New York Times bestseller!What do you do when the future is too late, and the present is counting down to an inevitable moment?Elena Martinez has street smarts, the ability for perfect recall, and a deadline: if she doesn't find a job before she turns eighteen, she'll be homeless. But then she gets an unexpected offer from Aether Corporation, the powerful Los Angeles tech giant. Along with four other recruits--Adam, Chris, Trent, and Zoe--Elena is being sent on a secret mission to bring back data from the future. All they have to do is get Aether the information they need, and the five of them will be set for life. It's an offer Elena can't refuse.But something goes wrong when the time travelers arrive in the future. And they are forced to break the only rule they were given--not to look into their own fates. Now they have twenty-four hours to get back to the present and find a way to stop a seemingly inevitable future--and a murder--from happening. But changing the timeline has deadly consequences too. Who can Elena trust as she fights to save her life?The first book in an unforgettable series about rewriting your destiny in the city of dreams.

Violet is now 10, so her mother allows her to walk home through the park for the first time this evening. Violet waivers between enjoying her stroll and feeling slightly frightened by the mystical experience of being alone in dreamlike park surroundings. Violet's story is a sweet and innocent exploration of how being awarded trust and responsibility can feel exciting for a young child.

Sweet, artistic Marguerite struggles to find the confidence to love her own artwork and embrace her sensitive nature. Through finding joy in the flow of the creative process, and with the support of a nurturing family, Marguerite is able to overcome her sad feelings generated from her artwork being overlooked by her busy teacher at school. Marguerite begins to allow her spirit to freely create as she begins to value her own artistic sensibilities. For the shy, sensitive, creative child in each of us, Marguerite's story serves as a loving inspiration to persevere.

“Written by a veteran acting teacher from The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute’s Young Actors at Strasberg Program, here is a collection of new monologues that really pushes the envelope. Get ready to work your heart out when you approach one of Ms. Bauman’s monologues; her characters are funny, tough, tender, quirky, unapologetically truthful, and beautifully vulnerable. Take one—any one—and run with it; I guarantee the experience of working on it will stretch you as an actor and push you to a whole new level in your acting skills.” —Kerry Muir, editor of Childsplay and Three New Plays for Young Actors from the Young Actors Studio Young people today are bombarded daily with issues of belonging and acceptance. This leaves little room for self-expression, creativity, and developing the imagination. A compilation of distinctive monologues, Private Stories is unique in that the soliloquies cut to the heart of what young people experience. It touches on issues that teens deal with, such as love, friendship, betrayal, abuse, and humor, to help reunite young people with their creative abilities. The monologues are excellent for auditions, classroom work, and competitions; and all of them have been workshopped and 100% kid tested.