Books with author John Peel

Welcome to the seventh grade...again. And again.Fitting in at a new school is tough for any kid. But what if you were a robot? Roger is one of the new children--sophisticated androids created to act and talk and think just like normal kids. Only these "kids" are machines. A mysterious toxic plague has infected the human population, and the only way to have children is to manufacture them. But machines don't grow up like normal children. They can't grow. They just keep repeating the same year over and over again. At some point Roger's owners--er, parents--will replace him with an older Roger. The problem?Roger doesn't want to be replaced.

Feeling a little...saur today?Every school kid knows that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago. But what would happen if maybe some dinosaur DNA managed to survive? And what if it could be revived and transferred into a living host?A host just like...you?As a group of teenagers are about to discover, this Jurassic lark is no fairy tale. It's real. People are beginning to mutate into monstrous creatures--part dinosaur and part human, but one hundred percent deadly....

Puppy love--but with a real bite!When the pets in her neighborhood suddenly go on a rampage, it's Devra Thomas who ends up in the doghouse. It seems a group of primates in a "brain enhancement" experiment have escaped from a nearby research facility. Somehow they are passing on their enhanced brains to all the other animals, and they want their revenge for all the years of humiliation at the hands of their human masters. The animals take over the town and no human is safe.Luckily, Devra's beloved pooch would never turn on her. Or would she? It's time for a little...payback--bow wow style.

Brainwashed teenage zombies? Or just another day in the 'burbs?Stacy can't understand what's going on with the kids in her neighborhood. They just aren't acting normal. Her best friend Amy has thrown away her collection of Doc Martens and is wearing "sensible" shoes instead. Her boyfriend Justin is acting bizarre, too. Is that really Kenny G he's listening to on the radio? It's like everyone is turning into their parents. Now that is really scary!Stacy is convinced that someone--or something--is brainwashing all the teenagers in town. Can she discover who and why before it is too late? Or will Stacy be turned into on of...the lost?

A case of kidnapping? Or a rescue?Aggie Travers is different from her classmates. She has telekinetic powers...violent powers she has difficulty controlling. Her parents are baffled; they don't know what to do. Then Aggie is befriended by Karen--a substitute teacher with unique insights into Aggie and her powers.The problem? A government agent is hunting for Karen. She has been linked to the disappearance of other children...children with similar powers. It is really Karen the agent is after? Or Aggie? The Travers don't know who to trust. They will have to make...the choice.

School's out on the planet Tarshish...forever.Humans have established a thriving colony on the planet Tarshish, until a native species of semi-insectoids awakens from a long incubation and attacks the colony. Only the children survive--and a computer.The computer teaches the children how to form their own community. A community without adults and without boring adult rules and stupid adult regulations. On Tarshish, kids rule! Until the day a rescue ship arrives to bring them back.But the kids don't want to be rescued. They like being in charge. In fact, they might go to war to prove it!

It all began the day Chrissie Scott looked into the mirror and saw somebody else's reflection. A boy who looked exactly like her. Nothing would ever be the same again...The evil twins, Larry and Lori Lee, are back -- with the greatest terror of all: Athenor, the Mother of All Dragons! In exchange for their help in freeing her from thousands of years in Limbo, the terrifying dragon has agreed to spare them -- as she wreaks vengeance on Earth and the world of magic!The future of both worlds depends on Chrissie, Chris, their pet dragons, and friends Jessica and science-whiz Henry. But they're all imprisoned in a stone dungeon where magic doesn't work! How can they escape? In a few hours the Lees and Athenor will drain all electricity and magic from the universe. They've already begun...