Books with title Rogue Crystal

Escaping from a grey, rule-bound city, a girl discovers her family and homelandCrystal is unusual. With her silvery blonde hair and blue eyes, there isn€™t anyone like her in the town except for her mom and everyone says her mom is crazy—or a witch. Crystal knows that the town leader has something to do with her mother€™s madness but how can she prove it? And how can she stop him when the town guard tramps the streets day and night, there's a curfew, and a strange creature in their house spies on them, recording their every move? When Crystal thinks she glimpses someone looking up at her from the depths of Lop Lake, she is amazed yet strangely hopeful—could this be the help she€™s been waiting for?

The author, David Campbell, is a marine biologist and currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Nations and the Global Environment at Grinnell College. The Crystal Desert was written after he spent three summers at the Brazilian research station, Comandante Ferraz, located on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, 200 km north of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. In this area of Antarctica, he studied the life cycles of parasites that live in seals, fish, and crustaceans.This book is about living for a summer in that Antarctic outpost.

Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is worth giving up everything -- her friends, her beliefs, and her self-respect.

Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is worth giving up everything -- her friends, her beliefs, and her self-respect.

Escaping from a grey, rule-bound city, a girl discovers her family and homelandCrystal is unusual. With her silvery blonde hair and blue eyes, there isn’t anyone like her in the town except for her mom and everyone says her mom is crazy—or a witch. Crystal knows that the town leader has something to do with her mother’s madness but how can she prove it? And how can she stop him when the town guard tramps the streets day and night, there's a curfew, and a strange creature in their house spies on them, recording their every move? When Crystal thinks she glimpses someone looking up at her from the depths of Lop Lake, she is amazed yet strangely hopeful—could this be the help she’s been waiting for?

Avery loves the prospect of visiting Scarya with her cousin and boyfriend. Adventure and romance surely await in this exotic country. Instead, war breaks out, and Avery ends up with an ancient sword everyone is dying to possess. Scarya isn’t just a foreign land - the more time Avery is trapped there, the more she learns about her past. Her ancestors originated in Scarya, and one of them brought an enchanted crystal with him to Scarya from space. She never expected an alien to ruin her vacation, but sometimes, the past has a way of reappearing.

Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is worth giving up everything - her friends, her beliefs, and her self-respect.