Books with author Lucienne

DISAPPEARED by Lucienne Diver is a gripping YA suspense with a twist that readers won't see coming.The story their father tells about their mother’s disappearance doesn’t add up for Jared and Emily Graham.Foul play is suspected, intensifying their fears.Their mom’s car is discovered, abandoned and covered in blood. No one will tell them what's going on, so they're going to find out for themselves. Their investigations into what really happened to their mother may have killer consequences for them both, especially if the truth hits close to home."DISAPPEARED is a wonderfully creepy read! Full of devious twists and filled with characters who are so real you genuinely care about them. Highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of ROT & RUIN and V-WARS"A fast-paced murder-mystery with relatable characters and a shocking twist; perfect for large collections where mysteries are popular."—School Library Journal

Making her way through high school in her art geek bubble, Rayna Butler is used to being largely ignored by her classmates. Sure, she marches to her own beat—her Kool-Aid dyed hair and her edgy paintings make that perfectly clear. So when she arrives at school one normal Monday morning and finds a handwritten note in her backpack that reads “Six Days to Die,” she’s sure that it’s just a friend playing a prank on her.Jack Harkness is one of the toughest guys in school, a loner hiding his painful home life. When he also receives one of the threatening notes he doesn’t take it for anything he can’t handle.Rayna and Jack soon discover that even more students have received threatening notes, although each has a different expiration date. “Six Days to Die”... “Two Days to Die”... “Seventeen Days to Die”... there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. And none of the kids appear to have anything in common.The students take the threats with varying degrees of seriousness—until the first murder. Liam, the class salutatorian, is the first to go, when his house mysteriously burns down around him and his mother as well. Certain that their days are numbered, Rayna and Jack convince the others to join together to track down the killer before their time is up.

Gina Covello’s “Rules for Surviving Your Senior Prom” (spring issue of Modern Goth Magazine):Rule #1: Do not get so loaded at the after prom party that you accidentally-on-purpose end up in the broom closet with the surprise hottie of the evening, say the class chess champ who’s somewhere lost his Coke-bottle lenses and undergone an extreme makeover, especially if that makeover has anything to do with becoming one of the undead.Gina Covello has a problem. Waking up a dead is just the beginning. There’s very little she can’t put up with for the sake of eternal youth and beauty. Blood-sucking and pointy stick phobias seem a small price to pay. But she draws the line when local vampire vixen Mellisande gets designs on her hot new boyfriend with his prophesied powers and hatches a plot to turn all of Gina’s fellow students into an undead army to be used to overthrow the vampire council.Hey, if anyone’s going to create an undead entourage, it should be Gina! Now she must unselfishly save her classmates from fashion disasters and her own fanged fate.

Six months ago Vanessa Raines lost her best friend.Lisa had changed, pushing away everyone close to her, even Vanessa. She had quit soccer. Started wearing dark and dismal clothes. She refused every offer to talk and suffered whatever she was going through in silence. Now she’s really gone. Suicide they claim, but Vanessa knows that isn’t right. It can’t be.Vanessa blames herself for letting Lisa chase her off. She wants answers, so that she can put to rest the rumors surrounding Lisa’s death and so that she can move on, heal. But Lisa left no note and the journal she was always scribbling in—which might tell all—is mysteriously missing.As Vanessa struggles to come to terms with the loss of her friend and to reconstruct the last months of Lisa’s life, someone calling themselves “Poetic Justice” begins taking revenge against those he or she thinks drove Lisa to suicide. Everyone at school believes Vanessa is this mysterious “Poetic Justice”. It’s easy to blame the former best friend, and Vanessa makes an obvious target.Struggling with her own guilt, Vanessa is determined to ignore the threats and allegations aimed her way. But as the Poetic Justice’s vengeance takes a darker turn, retaliation against Vanessa begins to escalate, from cyber bullying to violence, putting both her and the little sister she adores in the line of fire. To protect them both, she has to find out who’s behind the attacks before things turn deadly. And hope she can survive the truth.- - - - - - “Vivid, suspenseful, and charming, Diver creates a world where anything can happen in this must-read page-turner.”—Carrie Jones, New York Times bestselling author of the NEED series.“FAULTLINES blew me away! A tense, suspenseful read that will break your heart and keep you guessing right up until the very end.”—Amy Christine Parker, author of GATED and ASTRAY

What do you wear to face down a cadre of killer kids? Gina Covello would rather be working on her manicure than missions for the Feds’ paranormal unit to which she’s been recruited. That changes when a group of killer kids takes out a family in the sunshine state and disappearances begin to plague the lifestylers who play at the kind of existence our fanged fashionista leads. She and her crew are sent undercover into the vampire clubs . . . which turn out to be run by real vampires.While Gina’s BFF Marcy hangs with the steampunk-styled Burgess Brigade that spawned the killer kids, Gina herself is supposed to get in good with the fanged fiends behind the scenes, even to the point of playing double-agent, offering to hand over her powerful boyfriend Bobby. Her playacting threatens to become a bit too real when she discovers things about her spy handlers that make her wonder whether she’s truly on the right side of the battle between Feds and fangs.Book 3 in the Vamped series.

After surviving super spy club training, Gina, Bobby and their fanged friends are sent on their first mission—undercover at a New York high school where some seriously weird stuff is going down. As excited as Gina is to get out of spook central, she’s less than impressed with her new identity as goth-girl Geneva Belfry. No color palette to speak of—more chains than a bike rack—and don't even get her started on the shoes. About the only thing she can say for her all-black wardrobe is that it’s great for hiding blood spatter and other fashion faux pas.And there will be blood.Kids at the high school are going crazy—sudden outbreaks of violence, kids sleepwalking through school or dropping out entirely. Serious magic surges have been detected in the area, along with a mysterious and nearly mythic figure . . . someone who should be long dead and at least thrice buried.Some legends just won't die.(Book 2 in the VAMPED Series)

After figuring out that the Feds like to perform grisly experiments on vamps for fun and profit, Gina Covello, fashionista of the fanged, and her minions ditch their government spy jobs and go on the run somewhere their weird will blend in . . . Salem, Massachusetts, a town with tourism still dedicated to the darkest part of their history, the witch trials.Their new home town is mercifully Fed free, at least to start, but Gina and the gang have only traded one kind of danger for another. A nasty spirit from the past―possibly the infamous Sheriff Corwin―is on a killing spree, targeting young girls. And with a producer from the ghost hunting show Ghouligans ready to blow their vamp cover, Salem isn’t helping the gang blend in. But the supernatural strangler needs to be stopped. Sure, Gina and her crew rose from the dead, but this ghost’s victims aren’t likely to be so lucky . . .Book 4 in the Vamped Series

Fanged and fabulous . . . and hunted.Gina Covella, fashionista of the fanged, and her entourage are primed to reveal the existence of vampires on the popular Ghouligans television show, when their former federal handlers swoop in to shut them down and imprison the vamps in one of their super secret testing facilities. Or not so secret, as the gang knows all about the horror hospitals and has sworn to take them down.Their daring escape runs them right into the arms of “the resistance”—a group of humans and vampires who’ve joined together to stop the fighting that’s made Gina and her boy Bobby’s hometown a bloody battlefield. Going home brings them back to old nemeses as well, including the psycho psychic who declared Gina “chaos” and Bobby “the key”. They hope he’ll unlock the secret of stopping the Feds’ freakshow experiments for good, because they’re building up to something big. Huge. And they’re consolidating their power in the Big Easy, aka New Orleans, where what’s cooking is nothing less than the final showdown.

Making her way through high school in her art geek bubble, Rayna Butler is used to being largely ignored by her classmates. Sure, she marches to her own beat--her Kool-Aid dyed hair and her edgy paintings make that perfectly clear. So when she arrives at school one normal Monday morning and finds a handwritten note in her backpack that reads "Six Days to Die," she's sure that it's just a friend playing a prank on her. Jack Harkness is one of the toughest guys in school, a loner hiding his painful home life. When he also receives one of the threatening notes he doesn't take it for anything he can't handle. Rayna and Jack soon discover that even more students have received threatening notes, although each has a different expiration date. "Six Days to Die..". "Two Days to Die..". "Seventeen Days to Die..". there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. And none of the kids appear to have anything in common. The students take the threats with varying degrees of seriousness--until the first murder. Liam, the class salutatorian, is the first to go, when his house mysteriously burns down around him and his mother as well. Certain that their days are numbered, Rayna and Jack convince the others to join together to track down the killer before their time is up.

DISAPPEARED by Lucienne Diver is a gripping YA suspense with a twist that readers won't see coming.DISAPPEARED by Lucienne Diver is a gripping YA suspense with a twist that readers won't see coming.The story their father tells about their mother’s disappearance doesn’t add up for Jared and Emily Graham.Foul play is suspected, intensifying their fears.Their mom’s car is discovered, abandoned and covered in blood. No one will tell them what's going on, so they're going to find out for themselves. Their investigations into what really happened to their mother may have killer consequences for them both, especially if the truth hits close to home."DISAPPEARED is a wonderfully creepy read! Full of devious twists and filled with characters who are so real you genuinely care about them. Highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of ROT & RUIN and V-WARS"A fast-paced murder-mystery with relatable characters and a shocking twist; perfect for large collections where mysteries are popular."—School Library Journal

"Vamped is a total delight! Lucienne Diver delivers a delightful cast of undead characters and a fresh, fast take on the vampire mythos. Next installment, please!"―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series Gina Covello's Perks and Pitfalls of Vamp Life1. Hello?! Eternal youth and beauty! 2. Free. Designer. Clothes. 3. My hot new boyfriend Bobby went from chess dud to vamp stud. 4. No reflection! First order of business: turn my own stylist to stop the downward spiral from chic to eek. 5. Vampire vixen Mellisande has taken an interest in my boyfriend, and is now transforming the entire high school into her own personal vampire army. If anyone's going to start their own undead entourage it should be me. I guess I'll just have to save everyone from fashion disasters and other fates worse than death.

"Bianca Teaches Acceptance" is a character education book focusing on the character trait of acceptance. Bianca the butterfly, the main character of the book, sits outside the window of an inclusion classroom. In the beginning of the book, there is no color in the illustrations and Bianca is sad, crying and her wings will not flutter. This is as a result of the unacceptance the children are portraying towards the two students with disabilities. These two students are being teased because of their reading and math disabilities. As the story progresses, Bianca whispers in the teacher's ear the lesson on acceptance she must teach to all the students. The teacher, Miss M., has lunch with the two girls and they discuss what has been transpiring in the classroom. Miss M. decides to have a meeting with all the girls in the class. Miss M. explains that everyone has strengths and weaknesses while they are in school. Everyone then shares their weaknesses realizing that they are more similar than different. During this time color is slowly added to the book and Bianca's crying stops. Her wings then begin to slowly flutter because the girls are learning to accept each other. At the conclusion of the book and after all the students have shared their weaknesses, they feel more comfortable and are able to focus on learning again. Bianca then flies into the classroom creating a heart shape in the air with butterfly kisses for all to share. The last page is completely in color! "Bianca Teaches Acceptance" is a 30-page picture book. It contains 25 illustrations. There is an additional page titled, "Teacher Notes." This explains the purpose of the illustrations starting in black in white and slowly making the conversion into full color. The teacher notes also provide a character list of the children and their different cultural backgrounds. There are 8 reproducible lesson extension worksheets which include story elements, sequencing and a writing assignment. The worksheets are also differentiated and aligned to Core Standards and Character Education Standards. This book is age appropriate for Kindergarten through 5th grade. "Bianca Teaches Acceptance" was selected by the New Jersey Education Association as a featured book displayed and available for purchase at their annual conference located in Atlantic City in November 2018.