Books with title Becoming{Becoming}

A captivating debut novella perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and Divergent. Hattie Sullivan is a typical sixteen-year-old, small town girl with an unusual past that she knows nothing about. Until now. As her mom lies on her deathbed, she reveals the truth about Hattie’s secret past. Soon she is thrown into a strange and unfamiliar world that forces her to question everything she has ever known. Her unimaginable past, that she can’t seem to escape, quickly turns her world upside down. As Hattie learns about her true identity, she encounters unexpected challenges and forms unlikely friendships. Even though she feels slightly cursed by the past she never wanted, she discovers that she has a future worth fighting for and people to help save along the way.

Reggan has finally found her mom but both have changed. Invading aliens and war will do that to a person. The seventeen year old finds her mother is being too overprotective even to point giving her bodyguards. Reggan points out she would see, smell or hear any danger long before the two men following her around would. When her mom tells Reggan, she is being sent to Canada. They argue. Reggan decides she needs a break from her mom and the whole war.

Skye is the storm-tossed comic character out for revenge on the author who murdered his family.Jace is the math-loving #blerd trying to escape his father’s deadly legacy.When their worlds collide, Jace must choose between the real world he’s always hated, and the comic book world he’s always loved–and Skye must decide if killing his author will save his world, or damn his soul.(INSIDE EVERY BOOK IS A CHANCE TO WIN $100)LONG VERSION: Skye’s a comic book superhero with a gun in his hand and a gripe against his author. Every girl Skye’s ever dated is either dead or trying to take over the world, and in the series finale, Skye’s best friend kills him. Or so he thinks. The weapon meant to disintegrate Skye lands him in his author’s universe. With a shot at revenge.Skye, meet Jace. Jacen Howard’s a brilliant #blerd math whiz and comics aficionado–but at his West Baltimore high school that’s a bad thing, and if the bullying isn’t bad enough, Jace’s cop-father regularly pisses off the neighbors. Jace doesn’t see himself as a hero; he’s just trying to survive.Jace might be just the hero Skye needs.But Skye won’t open up when Jace tries to ease him out of PTSD, and the author’s still torturing his friends. As Skye’s mood swings and nightmares escalate, Jace realizes that if he doesn’t uncover his roommate’s real identity soon, Skye will hurt someone–and Skye’s still deciding if murder will save his world, or damn his soul.

"Secrets feel like ruts in the road when you are trying to walk in the dark." Jamie thinks her whole name - Esther James Atherton - is awkward and weird. She is 14 and why her name is Esther is just one of the many dangerous secrets swirling in her life. Jamie is an introverted, artistic girl who has never been close to anyone except her big brother Lucas. Their parents are successful people who recently moved the family into a new, custom-built luxury home, yet they don't see the insecurity in their own daughter. They also don't see their son getting snared into an underworld of drugs and dealers. Jamie does -- and as summer unravels Jamie tries to protect Lucas. This becomes more and more difficult as secrets build and threaten In her exploration of the countryside around her parents' new house. Jamie meets Cassie and Caleb, lively, interesting, and poor kids. For the first time in her life Jamie experiences what it's like to have real friends. When Jamie shares her secrets about her brother, her family, and her weird name - Caleb tells Jamie there was a Queen Esther in the Bible. They find the story and read it. The story moves strongly inside Jamie. The story of Queen Esther will give Jamie the wisdom and courage she will soon need when she must make a choice no kid should ever have to face. A crisis comes – and Jamie has to choose between being honest and being loyal. Becoming Esther is a first person-narrated 40,000-word Young Adult novel that tells a thoroughly modern tale that is related in spirit to the powerful ancient Hebrew story of Queen Esther. What happens when a young woman must risk her world to save her world?

When I went to bed, I dreamt that a girl slightly younger than I was sitting at my desk in my room, writing in her reflections journal. Her unkempt hair reached halfway down her back and her head was bowed low to the desk as she wrote feverishly. After a moment, the girl looked up and her soft brown eyes caught sight of me. She put down her pen, closed her journal, and stood, turning to face me. As she handed me her journal, she spoke in a quiet, pleading voice.“I know you don’t think much of me now,” she began. “But, my writing is immature. Give me a chance to grow before you make your decision.”She was gone in the blink of an eye and I was left standing in the middle of my room with the journal in my hand.When Birgit discovers an old diary, she assumes reading it will help her identify the author. As she delves deeper into the journal, however, she receives the guidance to learn more about herself and her Catholic identity than she ever anticipated.

Bryce Carter Davis is young, gifted, and black. He can grow up to be a star, a statistic, or even a savage. Given the fact that his father is a murderer, most people in his neighborhood have already predetermined his fate.But Bryce has learned that his life journey, just like anyone else’s, can verge in any direction at any time. Circumstances do not have to dictate outcomes. Everything hinges on his determination and his perseverance. His destiny is in his hands. He’s … Becoming Bryce.

He has the looks, the skills and even the name, but is that enough to win... Becoming Zodiak? Zodiak. An unmatched, unbeatable team composed of twelve elite fighters. Their purpose? To rid the streets of crime and corruption, and to fend against a kind of wickedness that runs much deeper than any ordinary crime could. And they were unmatched, they were unbeatable. Until they weren’t. After the events of what should have been just another mission, Zodiak finds itself one member short—one member too few. The team is scrambling to fill their empty seat, to find a new number twelve, and this desperation bringsabout one of the largest media events the world has ever seen: a competition. From thousands of applicants all across the globe, only five will be chosen to compete to fight alongside the world’s most powerful human weapons. And Jimmy Taurus, a nobody in England with a knack for a paintball gun, is about to find out just how close to being unmatched and unbeatable he can get.

On the eve of Michelle’s first official demon hunt, her mentor and love, Julian, briefly loses himself and sets off a chain of events that makes Michelle question if he ever had control in the first place.With the help of her new ally, Diana, she is able to cast out Zariel once and for all. But there’s hardly cause for celebration when Balthazar unleashes a full-scale attack on Julian’s mind.Balthazar and Maria transform Michelle’s life into a constant state of horror for pure entertainment while moving on with their plans for humanity’s end. Michelle trains her new powerhouse protégé to help her face the upcoming evil, but Balthazar’s terror extends further than Michelle can imagine.Michelle desperately searches for a way to save what’s left of Julian’s soul, but the only salvation may very well be his death.

Becoming to Being is a series of poems and accompanying illustrations that show the raw and rough side of teenage life living in a small-town suburbia and the subsequent spiritual journey. Through trauma, tragedy, and tough luck, we find gratitude, greatness, and the goodness of all. She exemplifies the empowerment of pain and emphasizes that through the greatest grief, we will find our greatest selves. Come on a journey of chaos and crying to find the future flowering on the other side. Learn about the love of everything in life even if it is not, by our definition, what we call love.