Books with title Through the Gate

"Emotionally resonant first novel a moving fantasy that brilliantly evokes the fear and exhilaration of growing up."--Publishers WeeklyIn the last one-room schoolhouse in the county, a strange graduation ceremony takes place each year. No one in town will say what happens, but it changes the students forever. With a hint of menace, this mesmerizing novel unfolds. The five sixth-graders in Miss Clough's schoolhouse are about to graduate, or "go through the gate",as the townspeople say. But none of the children knows what this means. They would not dare to question Miss Clough, though. She has been the teacher for more than fifty years. She is so much a part of the town and its people that they say she can see inside your head and guide your thoughts. But why does she make them study animals so intensely? And why does everyone, except the sixth-graders, stay inside on graduation day? But most of all, what happened at the school twenty-five years ago that everyone is afraid will happen again? Becky and the other sixth-graders are about to find out, and to discover parts of themselves that they couldn't have imagined the day before. This extraordinary first novel combines all the energy of suspense with the emotional power of a coming-of-age story. Janet S. Anderson explores the inner lives of five very different children with equal authority, while weaving a spell of magic and danger around them with her exquisite descriptions of a beautiful and threatening animal world. This is an unforgettable debut.

In 1970 mid-west America, 13-year-old cousins Dylan and Allison are enjoying the best summer of their lives. Since Allison’s family moved near Dylan’s, the two have become inseparable. Then something happens that changes the summer vacation, and their lives, forever. While skateboarding, Allison is struck down by a car and enters a coma that lasts for months, thrusting them both into a series of events they will never forget. During this time they enter into a series of challenges while they’re asleep and dreaming, challenges that are terrifying and seemingly life threatening. Can one die in a dream, and if they do will they never wake up? The Gate is highly charged with action and suspense as these two teens go up against unbelievable odds that challenge their courage and commitment to each other.

"There's an old saying that 'you reap what you sow'; but when it come to farming, it's not just what you put into the ground, it's how you tend to it while it grows."That was something Amy's grandfather had said when she was little. But after his death in a tornado, Amy faces new challenges when she and her family move in with their grandmother in a tiny farm town on the edge of nowhere.While adjusting to her new life, Amy meets Maria, a girl her own age with no mother and an abusive alcoholic father everyone knows as "mean ol' Mister James." Amy and Maria become fast friends until the next spring, when a drunken rampage from Mister James sends the girls into the barn during a severe storm that turns into a twister. When the air finally clears, Maria is gone.Gradually, Amy settles back into routine while Mister James tries to cope in his own violent ways. Despite the warnings of her friends and family, Amy can't let go of the strange sense of duty to help Mister James. As the winds of change continue to rock her family, Amy tries to do whatever she can for the man deemed responsible for her friend's death, while he now has to live with himself. In a world of twists and turns, Amy learns that perhaps forgiveness can be given to anyone.

Lyric Yama’s life is starting to feel as bleak as the purgatory in which she spends her days.The line between enemy and ally has blurred. To unravel a heinous murder, she’s agreed to exploit her veilwalking gifts for her new coven leader. But as the Lyric sinks deeper in the quicksand of lies and deceit, she’s forced to re-evaluate exactly what she signed up for.Is the pursuit for truth worth becoming the very evil she’s been running from? And if so, can she survive the soul-crushing loss that truth will ultimately reveal?This is the second installment of Jennifer R. McDonald’s Veilwalker Trilogy.

Nineteen year-old Gaelle is starting her first year at Forsythia, a private college high in the Rocky Mountains. Suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder didn't make it easy to find friends in high school, and she's hoping for a fresh start. Soon she meets Janet, the quirky answer to her loneliness, and Draig, a mysterious boy who seems fated to repeatedly cross her path. Immediately drawn to Draig, one night Gaelle follows him into the forest and unraveling the weighty secret he protects.Draig is a Gatekeeper, one in a long line of men and women dedicated to guarding a locked portal between the 4th and 5th dimensions. A breach is starting to form in the Gate, and to avoid certain catastrophe Gaelle and Draig must find a way to seal it again. But as Gaelle is swept up with helping Draig, she also comes closer to the truth of her own past.

Nineteen year-old Gaelle is starting her first year at Forsythia, a private college high in the Rocky Mountains. Suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder didn't make it easy to find friends in high school, and she's hoping for a fresh start. Soon she meets Janet, the quirky answer to her loneliness, and Draig, a mysterious boy who seems fated to repeatedly cross her path. Immediately drawn to Draig, one night Gaelle follows him into the forest and unraveling the weighty secret he protects. Draig is a Gatekeeper, one in a long line of men and women dedicated to guarding a locked portal between the 4th and 5th dimensions. A breach is starting to form in the Gate, and to avoid certain catastrophe Gaelle and Draig must find a way to seal it again. But as Gaelle is swept up with helping Draig, she also comes closer to the truth of her own past.

Jackson Layton is fourteen, a soccer star of his small town and is about to become one of the most important people on the planet. Revealed to him on a cross country trek, Jack learns he must make it to a secret summit, which will establish the direction for all human existence. Hot on his trail is a rogue military leader, who has been preparing for centuries to kill the chosen delegate, and will do what is necessary to accomplish his mission. Jack must not only put up with people trying to kill him, but also deal with his new found crush on his trek mate and best friend Maddie.