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  • Just Plain Weird

    Tom Upton, S J Manning

    language (Hightowne Press, Feb. 14, 2014)
    Young love has never been this complicated.Travis MacDuff is an ordinary teenager. His only concern is making his school's football team, until he meets his new neighbor, a peculiar girl who leads him on a bizarre journey that threatens their lives as well as all life on the planet.Just Plain Weird is a story about destiny and the triumph of young love over everything.
  • Plague House

    Tom Upton

    language (Hightowne Press, Sept. 17, 2014)
    Compelling YA fiction; vampire, paranormal romance novel.Charlie Wainwright is a sickly child, whose life has been rigidly controlled due to his illness, a rare auto-immune disease. His protective parents don't allow him to do anything normal children get to do. He can’t partake in sports. He can’t have friends or visitors at home. He must avoid anything that can cause him to have a flare-up of his condition.The only place his parents let him go is school, where Charlie is one of the Sicko Squad, a group of chronically sick kids often bullied by other students.After Charlie starts high school, his illness worsens, and he discovers the true nature of his illness-- not the auto-immune condition his parents led him to believe he had, but something much more startling.Charlie is becoming a vampire.
  • Vanished

    Tom Upton, S J Manning

    language (Hightowne Press, March 14, 2014)
    Paranormal NovellaA girl mysteriously disappears at school, and the cops are baffled.Julia (Jules) Dundee, the school freak, is compelled to use her paranormal abilities to recover the missing girl. With the aid her new-found friend, boyfriend wannabe, Jack Kilgore, they start on a journey that ends up out of this universe.
  • Pants on Fire

    Tom Upton

    language (Hightowne Press, March 27, 2013)
    Paranormal Novella. Volume two in the Freaky Jules series.High school athletes are inexplicably bursting into flames.While Julia (Jules) Dundee struggles with her strange life, and the paranormal abilities that torment her, she gets caught up in the mysterious occurrences of athletes suddenly bursting into flames. The authorities believe the answer lies in the chemical make-up of uniforms, while Jules knows the truth, which has emerged from her murky past.
  • Hellhounds: Freaky Jules

    Tom Upton, S J Manning

    language (Hightowne Press, March 16, 2014)
    The third volume of the Freaky Jules series.Julia Dundee (Freaky Jules) is recruited by her home spirit, a deceased police officer, to retrieve the spirit of his former partner, Sarge, an aging German Shepherd who will soon pass away. The only problem are the hellhounds that are bent on corrupting or destroying the retired canine hero.
  • The Crying Witch

    Tom Upton

    language (Hightowne Press, Sept. 11, 2013)
    The fourth volume of the paranormal YA series; dark fiction with a strong female protagonist.Jules discovers that her friend, Jack Kilgore, has been marked for death and damnation by a coven of witches who are bent on bringing back to life a powerful and evil ancient witch.
  • Forever Freaky

    Tom Upton

    language (Hightowne Press, Jan. 14, 2014)
    Two Young Adult Paranormal Novellas, featuring Julia (freaky Jules) Dundee.Freaky Jules#1 and #2 Freaky Jules (Vanished)A girl mysteriously disappears at school, and the cops are baffled.Julia (Jules) Dundee, the school freak, is compelled to use her paranormal abilities to recover the missing girl. With the aid her new-found friend, boyfriend wannabe, Jack Kilgore, she starts on a journey that ends up out of this universe.Freaky Jules (Pants on Fire)High school athletes are inexplicably bursting into flames.While Julia (Jules) Dundee struggles with her strange life, and the paranormal abilities that torment her, she gets caught up in the mysterious occurrences of athletes suddenly bursting into flames. The authorities believe the answer lies in the chemical make-up of uniforms, while Jules knows the truth, which has emerged from her murky past.
  • Escape From Planet Fidget: One Spin and You May Never Return.

    Bruce Goldstein, Metin Sozen

    Paperback (Highline Press, Oct. 4, 2017)
    FIND OUT WHERE FIDGETS REALLY COME FROM. Take an intergalactic journey to Planet Fidget, and you’ll never look at your spinner the same way again. When the fidgets first arrived, millions of boys and girls were having a great time playing with their spinners—until kids started disappearing. But when Luka Gallagher vanished, his nerdy twin sister Lila was determined to get him back. She goes on a zany adventure to a planet in a far away galaxy, called Planet Fidget, where she encounters a crazy cast of intergalactic characters in a quest to find her brother. How will Lila get Luka home?
  • Escape From Planet Fidget: One Spin and You May Never Return

    Bruce Goldstein, Metin Sozen

    eBook (HIGHLINE PRESS, Sept. 2, 2017)
    FIND OUT WHERE FIDGETS REALLY COME FROM.Take an intergalactic journey to Planet Fidget. And you’ll never look at your spinner the same way again.When the fidgets first arrived, it was like this addictive little toy came out of nowhere.But that wasn’t the case at all. They actually came from an unknown planet in a distant galaxy, called Planet Fidget. While millions of boys and girls around the world were having a great time doing tricks with their spinners, they had no idea that something much larger was at play—until kids started disappearing.Everyone was stumped, even the detectives. It wasn’t until Luka Gallagher, one of the master spinners in the neighborhood, disappeared and his nerdy twin sister Lila was determined to find out where he was.She met a kid named Weird Kenny who told her the truth behind the fidget phenomenon: That it was not a toy at all. He said a planet in outer space, named Planet Fidget, had been knocked off its axis. Lord Spinator, the ruler of Planet Fidget sent down millions of spinners to kidnap Earths children to use their energy to put his planet back on course.Enter the world of Planet Fidget where kids from across the galaxy compete in the intergalactic Spinner Olympics, where they show off their latest tricks and advance in Stages to get to the Golden Tower. Meet alien kids from other planets, encounter the Fidgeteers (are they friend or foe?), head to the FizzyPop for a Schluey (alien kids drink weird stuff). Find out what happens when Lila becomes a spinner Olympian and saves her brother and other kids from an evil plan to steal their SPINERGY!!!