Books with author Ginger Rierden

Tornado Allie is an action/adventure novel for young readers. Allie McShaw must contend with the loss of her father and finding her own path in life. Along the way she and her BFF's come up against incredible challenges, and one day face a crisis that might mean the end for them all. Tornado Allie will make you laugh, cry and wonder at the world that surrounds us all.

Sixteen-year-old Jacqueline “Jake” Maria Palomera is the lone survivor of a drug-related incident gone very wrong. After her mother and baby brother are killed in a gang shooting by mistake, she’s sent from her California home to live with a cousin in Boise, Idaho, where she finds herself enrolled at the Boise Learning Unit for Exceptional Students (BLUES).There, Jake meets an extraordinary group of young geniuses whose boredom in traditional classrooms has driven them to find ingenious ways of stirring up trouble and making mischief. When Sheriff Nick Lash is assigned to BLUES as a reprimand for a questionable bust in Boise, he quickly realizes the potential of these brilliant malcontents. He and his partner soon get the idea to ask the students to create computer software that will help them solve a rash of car thefts taking place in southern Idaho. The students accept the challenge—but their success triggers a tragic sequence of events that leaves one student dead and leads Jake to a terrifying confrontation with the man who took everything from her. Will Jake meet the same tragic end as her family? Does she have what it takes to face a cold-blooded killer?

Sixteen-year-old Jacqueline “Jake” Maria Palomera is the lone survivor of a drug-related incident gone very wrong. After her mother and baby brother are killed in a gang shooting by mistake, she’s sent from her California home to live with a cousin in Boise, Idaho, where she finds herself enrolled at the Boise Learning Unit for Exceptional Students (BLUES).There, Jake meets an extraordinary group of young geniuses whose boredom in traditional classrooms has driven them to find ingenious ways of stirring up trouble and making mischief. When Sheriff Nick Lash is assigned to BLUES as a reprimand for a questionable bust in Boise, he quickly realizes the potential of these brilliant malcontents. He and his partner soon get the idea to ask the students to create computer software that will help them solve a rash of car thefts taking place in southern Idaho. The students accept the challenge—but their success triggers a tragic sequence of events that leaves one student dead and leads Jake to a terrifying confrontation with the man who took everything from her. Will Jake meet the same tragic end as her family? Does she have what it takes to face a cold-blooded killer?