Books with author Megan Johnson

The Runner – the first book in the young adult dystopian Avi Bloom series…Ten years ago the president of the United States declared that global warming had reached a tipping point from which it would not recover. In answer to this dilemma, modern technology was shut down. The elderly and other volunteers could opt to live out the rest of their lives in a virtual world, but all others were left to fend for themselves.Avi Bloom lives in a world in which each family must contribute one child as a runner. A runner risks life and limb to travel from village to village delivering news and other small items. Avi is one run shy of retiring when she discovers that whole villages are disappearing, leaving only a few dead bodies and the youngest children behind. Now, Avi must find out who or what is responsible for these missing people as she goes on a journey and discovers friendship, love, and betrayal. She also discovers that the forces behind these disappearances are much larger and more frightening than she could ever have imagined. This is a young adult novel with mild violence.

New World Island is the second book in the Avi Bloom series.How has one island remained virtually untouched by the shift away from technology? Avi Bloom and her friends will do anything to uncover the truth.After learning that the missing villagers have been forced into a virtual world—a world where they no longer have control over their minds or bodies—Avi Bloom and her friends decide the best way to get some answers, and stop this unknown force, is to pretend like their minds are still inside the program. When a boat docks in front of their group and the others plugged into the program line up to board this vessel, the group is taken away from the world they know. They’re taken to an island that has somehow been left untouched by the shift away from technology. The island forces the group to question everything they once thought to be true.

Peach and Plum opens with seven year-old Mayfair Tootle, who steps into the world of Maverick Elementary as a new student on the first day of school. And things like: Fifth graders who hog the kickball court, snooty school yard cliques, a Pop Star girl, school yard games like High Jump and One Fly Up, a dog named Monster, googlie-eyed school yard crushes, a substitute teacher, the Harvest Moon Potluck, a couple of birthday parties, and a crazy school yard brawl on the first day of school, all set the story of Peach and Plum in motion as the school year rolls itself out. Mayfair easily makes new friends at Maverick Elem (what the children call it), and everything is fine until the leader of The Snootish Girls, Kiara Campbell, gets kicked out of her own clique. When she highjacks Mayfair's litle circle of friends, Kiara banishes Mayfair's BFF from the group simply because Xembi reminds Kiara of another girl she can't stand. Fed up with Kiara's mean-girl ways and holding everybody hostage during lunch and recess, Mayfair stands up to Kiara when she finds out that Xembi might go to home school because of the bullying. And just when things get back to normal, Mayfair has one last show down with Kiara Campbell on the last day of school.

Brigid James is haunted. Her first day of senior year is spent hiding the gnarly scar on her wrist and hoping the whole school doesn’t know she spent her summer vacation in a wellness center after attempting to take her own life. With a detached and overworked mother and a pathetic excuse for a best friend, Brigid’s arsenal of emotional support is lacking.When Brigid meets Tunnel, the handsome new guy who literally makes her lose her senses, she is introduced to the underground world of ghosts and demons—a world that exists in plain sight if you’ve had a brush with death and when you know what to look for. Brigid recognizes one of these ghosts. He showed up at her school, obviously out of place, speaking utter nonsense. When one by one Brigid’s enemies suffer freak horrific accidents, the ghost seems the obvious culprit, but Brigid can’t shake the fact that her new boyfriend is growing increasingly possessive and his choice of vocabulary exactly matches the voice in her nightmares that claims, “You are mine.” **This book is for mature teen readers for strong language, attempted teen suicide, drug and alcohol use, and intense situations. This book is the first book in the Brigid's Ghosts series and it does not have a cliffhanger ending**