Books with author Marilyn Evans

Mari Evans deals with themes of teen pregnancy, popularity, loneliness, child abuse, and making choices. LaNeese, 14, becomes pregnant, and star athlete Moonlight, 15, denies that he is the child's father. He has his dreams set on professional sports and cannot have family responsibilities hold him back. (No woman just in ninth grade whining 'pregnant' like they all do was going to mess up his life.) With no parenting skills, LaNeese uses harsh physical punishment, resulting in the death of her son when he is 18 months old. Her friend Alisha, an overweight girl who feels unloved, lets boys do as they wish with her and also becomes pregnant. She wants a baby so she will have someone with whom she can share love. She goes into premature labor, and the infant does not survive due to low birth weight and lack of prenatal care. Evans effectively uses lots of dialogue to tell the interweaving stories of these African-American teens. Contemporary line drawings complement the text beautifully. The characters initially make bad choices, but later make better ones. A postscript tells what happened to them later and includes questions for discussion about their behavior, making this an excellent selection for health education classes. I'm Late is just right for its target audience, carefully mixing multiple adolescent themes and suggesting alternate pathways

We follow the adventures of Julie, a high school freshman living in a small midcoast Maine town. At a time of loss, Julie discovers that she has a very rare ability which will alter the future for her and her brother Ed. They have so much to learn and no one to help them. A boarding camp in the middle of the Maine woods and strangers from distant countries await them. A mystery is afoot, and they are the only ones who can solve it.

Fourteen-year-old Angie Keane has been looking forward to the fall of 1985 for two reasons. First, she will be starting her freshman years at Inner County High School in Sleetzville, Missouri, four miles from her home in Higgins Point, an equally small town. Second, she has also assumed she would be welcomed into the Higgins Point Gang, a group of teen detectives founded by her big brother Matt. The gang has been solving crimes in and around Higgins Point and Sleetzville for three years and is well known for its sleuthing. Joining it has been Angie’s dream since the gang got a big newspaper write-up for solving its first case. When someone starts sabotaging the Inner County football program in book one of the Higgins Point Mystery Series that fall with potentially deadly results—including cutting the team bus’s brake lines and tampering with an injured player’s X-ray—Angie is thrilled to be tackling her first case. But Matt says she isn’t ready for detective work and refuses to let her join. Angie is devastated. Why can’t Matt see she’s ready? Determined to prove her worth as a detective, Angie decides to solve the mystery on her own. Relying on the Lord’s guidance and her own intuition and pluck, she does unravel the mystery first, but almost loses her life in the process. Instead of focusing on learning her way around the high school and following up on reports that the handsome JV quarterback likes her a lot, Angie spends her first weeks as a freshmen up to her chin in mystery and danger as she fights to put the pieces of the case together before anyone dies—including her.

Would you risk everything to save your world?Alyssa cannot see: She is forced to reveal herself and her unique ability to the world, not knowing that an army marches towards Lunden to destroy her.Eva cannot speak: She hunts evil in Manhattan, to find answers about her past. When horror roams the empty streets, she realises she has become the prey.Verona cannot walk: She is part of a mission, mankind’s best hope of survival. But 20,000 kilometres above the planet, she unearths a plot beyond her worst nightmare.All three 16-year-olds are connected; through their dreams, through their special gifts, and through the mysterious woman who must bring them together to defeat an ancient enemy that threatens all worlds.

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Learn how to prepare your rabbit's hutch, and playing with your rabbit, indoors and outdoors. Find out what to feed your rabbit, and when, and how to keep your rabbit happy and healthy. Rabbit is one of an exciting series of pet care books designed to help young animal owners learn about and care for their pets. Illustrated on every page with full-color photography, Rabbit is packed with practical information on every aspect of rabbit care. With a foreword written by Roger Caras, president of the ASPCA, this series will engage and inform readers ages seven and up.

Learn how to choose your new puppy, and training and exercising your growing dog. Find out what to feed your puppy, and when, and how to keep your puppy happy and healthy. Puppy is one of an exciting new series of pet care books designed to help young animal owners learn about and care for their pets. Illustrated on every page with full-color photography, Puppy is packed with practical information on every aspect of canine care. Published in association with the ASPCA, this series will engage and inform readers ages seven and up.