Books with title the dog next door

Meet Nick Stavros: cheerleader extraordinaire and hopeless comic book addict. Senior year is about to begin, and if he plays his cards right, he'll get a scholarship to a school far from the watchful eyes of his helicopter parents.That all goes out the window when Penny Tarkanian moves into the house behind Nick's. Tall, dark, and gorgeous, she instantly grabs Nick's attention, though he can't seem to get hers.Then one night at a football game, he sees her dressed in Amazon warrior garb, fighting monsters under the bleachers. Monsters that nobody else can see...except for Nick.With countless pages of comic book knowledge to prepare him, Nick makes the boldest move of his life and decides to become a superhero. After all, he's immune to the monsters Penny hunts. Maybe if he helps her finish her mission, she'll finally take a close look at the boy next door...

When fifteen year old Jake Allister learns the new neighbor in his apartment complex is an elderly man from Germany named Mr. Wagner, he fears the worst. The guy's old enough to have survived World War II, and to Jake's young mind, that makes him suspect. Because Mr. Wagner isn't Jewish, Jake assumes the man must have been part of the Nazi regime who tortured and killed millions before he was born.Jake isn't religious, by any stretch of the imagination, and neither is his mother. He had to learn about the Holocaust at school; now he distrusts anything German, including Mr. Wagner. Then he sees the old man watching him and his boyfriend Thad make out in the parking lot. Jake justknowsthe guy is a Nazi.But when he finally gets invited into Mr. Wagner's apartment, Jake discovers Jews weren't the only ones who suffered during the Holocaust. For the first time, he begins to grasp the scope of the tragedy that unfurled during the war ... and what it meant to be Jewish -- or gay -- in Nazi Germany.

Thirteen year-old Natasha Gregory was in love. It wasn’t just any love. It was the kind of love that sent Natasha to a place where beautiful music always played, the sun shone brightly everyday and her heart went ‘boom, boom, boom.’Before, Natasha had always felt life in the sleepy little village of Westable was boring. But, when the love of Natasha’s life moved in next door, all that changed. Over the next few days she discovered the handsome boy’s name was Steve Jason, and that he was every bit as nice as she thought he would be. She even got to star in a movie with the fourteen year-old.However, as Natasha’s best friend Maria Rodriguez pointed out, Steve Jason, as a potential boyfriend, did have a few negatives - like the fact that he and his parents were actually aliens from another planet; that they had all entered Earth illegally; oh, and that they were now being pursued by Government agents, and two strange whiskered guys called Nubbins. So, thanks to her love for Steve, Natasha found herself embarked upon a thrilling adventure she would never ever forget.

Spring has officially arrived at Manderley Prep and lust is in the air..Ethan Andrews is the one guy that Maggie has always wanted but never had the courage to go for. With her shortage of funds and Ugly Betty looks, she’s not even a blip on his radar. That’s all about to change when Maggie gets the makeover of a lifetime – and a little help from her friends. The perfect opportunity to make her move comes during the class trip to Hawaii. Could there be a more ideal setting for a little romance? Now Maggie just has to figure out if she has the guts to make her move…Check out Carol's romance novels written under her CAROL GRACE name.

Ten-year-old Rileyjoe Biddle (RJ) is a typical school boy that loves computer games. It is the start of the school holidays and RJ’s parents are despairing at the amount of time he spends playing on his iPad. His father (Cornelius) is a history professor and each year he spends the summer break teaching in a Californian summer school.The day his father is due to fly out to the States, RJ stumbles across something unusual in the base of the old stone wall at the end of his garden. From the moment of his discovery, RJ’s world changes forever. With the aid of his mother, Harriet, and his great-uncle, Wallace Melrose, RJ is challenged to prevent a tragedy that is set to take place in order to save a local community from destruction.Set in rural England, this story follows the journey of a twenty-first-century boy caught up in a world from the past. Secrecy is vital for survival so can RJ rescue his new friends from an unknown enemy but keep their identity concealed?

Many families have a skeleton in the closet. Not many have a Prince from another world.May is an Observer, but she’s ageing out - and she’s only fifteen. Without her journal, Underland fades from her memory, and the more she is bullied by the evil Fletcher, the worse it gets.Underland is everything to May, and she isn’t ready to let it go. She begs for help, and they send her to a clinic – as a lab-rat for a new, untried treatment to stop her memories rotting away. She meets a boy - but he’s an Angel, and they really don’t like humans. His brothers bully him as badly as Fletcher bullies her, until one morning they take him away. When she finds out he’s being punished for befriending her, May decides to help. Except Underland has a bad habit of turning even the best laid plans into catastrophes…The Angel Next Door is the unexpected fourth (or first, depending on your point of view) book in the Warrior Stone trilogy – a dark adventure in a steampunk world, for Young Adults of all ages.Take another trip into Underland. We dare you.

While most seniors at her high school are worrying about prom and final exams, seventeen-year-old Sam is desperately trying to save her best friend Jesse's life. He has a rare, treatment-resistant form of cancer, and his odds of survival aren't good, and he may have only ten months left to live. Through every bit of his pain and anguish, Sam has been by his side--through the grueling, aggressive treatments and their awful aftermath, to sleeping in his room at night when he's afraid to be alone. Best friends and neighbors since preschool, Jesse and Sam's friendship is changing--now they're falling in love, and the bond between them grows stronger even as Jesse is weakens. Will they have a happy ending...or will their story end in heartbreak?