Books with author Jody Calkins

Turning sixteen is just the beginning...Turning sixteen should be something a girl looks forward to... but not for most girls in Houston, Texas in the year 2116, and especially not for Adrienne Harrington. For her, turning sixteen is a death sentence. Maybe not right away, but surely within the next ten years.Lucky for her, her father convinced her she could escape the city's requirements. All she had to do was bide her time, take her arranged-marriage husband by surprise, swim to shore, and run.Only when she arrives on the old oil rig platform, she's not prepared for the complexity of the task. Because suddenly it's not as easy as swimming a few hundred feet to dry land. Or simply knocking her husband unconscious so she can escape alone.Now, it's thirty miles. And the boy the center chose for her just so happens to be the Luke McCoy.Now she must make a choice: live with the life the center has chosen for her and bear children to help regrow the city's population... or convince Luke that they must swim to shore and run. At this point, he'll take anything if it means he gets to live.But there's just one other complication... she can't swim.Will they get to shore? Or will they be forced to do what the city requires?Platform 273, a young adult dystopian drama, is about a girl's struggle to overcome society's messed up rules.

Mistakes can get you killed...or locked away forever.Escaping Faction 73 was hard enough, but now Gabe and Emerson face a new set of problems. Dangerous, life-threatening problems. And ones that will test their resolve and their trust in each other.If they survive the round-trip trek across the fallen city to search for their friends, will their love be enough to forgive all?Ivy thought she had Shane figured out. Things were great. Well, as great as they could be stuck inside the prison walls with criminals and creepers.But then Shane reveals a disturbing secret. Now that her world is turned upside down once more, can she ever trust him again?The plot to escape DC Prison continues in this fifth installment of The Hexon Code series.No Way Out (The Hexon Code, Book 5) is a chilling young adult dystopian thriller/drama.

A city destroyed. A fight to survive.Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Fisher is trapped inside a walled city with one hundred genetically enhanced wolves, the by-product of a scientist's pet project gone awry.Her world crumbles when the wolves find their way inside her city and kill the majority of the population.Her family is dead. And her plan is to give up. To let the wolf awaken and finish her off. Until a young man drags her out of her home and gets her to safety.They think they're safe. They think they can ride it out and wait for the city to be restored. That's when the bombings begin. And then they overhear the city guards are searching for people like them who have been tainted with the wolves' blood because the scientist needs more test subjects.Now, they must fight to survive and escape without getting caught and before the officials level the city to the ground. Only the scientist's son shows up and ruins the plan.Tainted is the first in a thrilling series about love in the midst of death and destruction in a dystopian world, and an alliance more powerful than anything known to humankind. Perfect for YA thriller fans!

How far would you go to protect the people you care about?Fira Moseley created the antidote for the lethal injection the NRC was about to use on the villagers. But things went terribly wrong at the business district. Now Fira is faced with a difficult decision. If she agrees, she'll forego her beliefs in what is right. If she declines, she'll suffer the consequences.Little does she know, she's not prepared for what the new mayor will throw at her. The trip to the prison weeks earlier had been bad enough. But this will leave her broken and struggling to overcome new fears and setbacks at a time when her skills are needed most.Charged is the deeply emotional second book in the BOUGHT series, the new young adult dystopian psychological thriller.

Turning sixteen is just the beginning…Turning sixteen should be something a girl looks forward to… but not for most girls in Houston, Texas in the year 2116, and especially not for Adrienne Harrington. For her, turning sixteen is a death sentence. Maybe not right away, but surely within the next ten years.Lucky for her, her father convinced her she could escape the city’s requirements. All she had to do was bide her time, take her arranged-marriage husband by surprise, swim to shore, and run.Only when she arrives on the old oil rig platform, she’s not prepared for the complexity of the task. Because suddenly it’s not as easy as swimming a few hundred feet to dry land. Or simply knocking her husband unconscious so she can escape alone.Now, it’s thirty miles. And the boy the center chose for her just so happens to be the Luke McCoy.Now she must make a choice: live with the life the center has chosen for her and bear children to help regrow the city’s population… or convince Luke that they must swim to shore and run. At this point, he’ll take anything if it means he gets to live.But there’s just one other complication… she can’t swim.Will they get to shore? Or will they be forced to do what the city requires?Platform 273, a young adult dystopian drama, is about a girl's struggle to overcome society's messed up rules.

Mistakes can get you killed...or locked away forever.Escaping Faction 73 was hard enough, but now Gabe and Emerson face a new set of problems. Dangerous, life-threatening problems. And ones that will test their resolve and their trust in each other.If they survive the round-trip trek across the fallen city to search for their friends, will their love be enough to forgive all?Ivy thought she had Shane figured out. Things were great. Well, as great as they could be stuck inside the prison walls with criminals and creepers.But then Shane reveals a disturbing secret. Now that her world is turned upside down once more, can she ever trust him again?The plot to escape DC Prison continues in this fifth installment of The Hexon Code series.No Way Out (The Hexon Code, Book 5) is a chilling young adult dystopian thriller/drama.

Ryan's got problems. Lots of problems.He still hasn't managed to make his dad proud. And now his entire summer break is ruined.What new sixth grader wants to spend three whole months helping his aunt and uncle take care of five hundred stupid, crummy chickens? Not Ryan.But he doesn't have a choice. He never does.Instead of playing video games or having super-soaker fights with his older brother Derek, he's stuck on the eastern plains of Colorado. With no TV.And things get seriously worse when he meets Lindy, a girl who is staying with her grandmother for the summer. Right down the road.Little does he know, his life is about to change in a big way. Maybe life isn't always as bad as he expects. And maybe there are things in life worth fighting for, even when obstacles and heartache are there at every turn.But when disaster strikes at the farm, will he have the courage to risk his neck for a cause greater than himself? Or will he chicken out when everyone needs him the most?Chickens, Girls, and Other Life Problems is a contemporary coming-of-age middle-grade novel for both boys and girls.