Books with title Riley on the Other Side

Short-listed for the 2010 CLA Young Adult Book Award Tabby Freeman and Lora Froggett go to the same school, but they live in totally opposite worlds. Tabby is rich, pretty, and the most popular girl in her class. But behind closed doors, her perfect life is rapidly coming apart at the seams. On the other side, Lora is smart, timid, and the constant target of bullies. While struggling to survive the piranha-infested halls of her school, she becomes increasingly nervous that somebody might discover the unbearable truth about whats been happening to her family. Despite their differences, Tabby and Lora have something in common theyre both harbouring dark secrets and a lot of pain. Although theyve never been friends, a series of strange events causes their lives to crash together in ways neither could have ever imagined. And when the dust finally settles and all their secrets are forced out into the light, will the girls be saved or destroyed?

This story begins with a man named Doctor Burke. He is the head of the "Science Incorporated Club in Kansas." or otherwise, the S. I. C. K. but not only is he a man that discovered a red dot on a globe, but he is also a stepfather to a spoiled British boy named Simon. This kid has no idea what he is in for after he is forced to spend the weekend with his crazy stepfather, which he soon figures out he is never seeing him again. And it is all because of a genius scientist named Doctor Yu with her failed machine, a psycho kid, and a red dot that is a lot more dangerous than what Simon bargained for... after he ends up inside of it.

In The Other Side, artist, designer, provocateur Istvan Banyai takes readers on another exceptional visual journey. In graphically stunning illustrations that feature many clever twists in point of view, familiar scenes turn and turn again to show us the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the opposite, the other side of each perspective. Here's a door. What's on the other side? Here's a shoreline. What's on the other side? Here's a curtain. What's on the other side? The answers may surprise you. Delightful, sly, funny, and challenging, The Other Side will make readers want to look, and think, twice.

In a civilization where the authorities are able to read people’s minds, a young man, a three-hundred-year old woman and a rogue AI join their forces to save what still can be saved in our galaxy. The Universe is conscious, has many avatars, and likes to experiment on … us. Powerful Factions, the supreme form of social evolution in a galaxy where all civilizations are human-like, interfere for their own mysterious ends. When confident enough, they challenge the Universe seeding war and political mayhem by altering the fabric of time. Ten million years ago, one Faction created an intelligent field, ready to destroy our galaxy, and to build a new universe from its ruins. It failed. Twenty billion people died, and the technology was at first forbidden, then forgotten. They are trying again. How many will die now? The Other Side can be read as a standalone novel.

To a stranger passing through, Wynlock-on-the-River must have looked like a nice, quiet, place to live. But it definitely was not! The people who lived on the east side of the river constantly fought with the people who lived on the west, until one night a blustery storm caused the bridge connecting the two sides of Wynlock to collapse. Suggested level: junior, primary.