Books with title The Secret of Shazam!

Zoe wants to be like other girls, ordinary girls living perfectly ordinary lives in the world of the living, but her life will never be ordinary or perfect while trapped in the land of the dead. When she makes a deal with the cunning guardian of promises for passage to the surface, Zoe lands in the luxurious world of privileged immortals where secrets and battles for power are a way of life, but her freedom comes with a price.She is in a race against time to find true immortal love before the guardian sucks way her powers and life force forever. Seems like a snap for a beautiful girl with a passion for romance. Yet life among the living is more complex than she ever dreamed and the guardian hates to lose. Ruthless kidnappers, power failures, and dreadful mortal school top the list of roadblocks. Zoe's might lose all hope were it not for three admirers: Koal, the perfect immortal that her family adores; Jason, her mortal neighbor with a heavy-handed father who holds a grudge against her family; and Chance, a high school superstar with eyes like the devil. One holds the key to her heart, and another is plotting to overthrow her family. Love at first sight is undeniable, unforgettable, and, Zoe's in case, extremely dangerous. Can she ignore her heart and make the right decision before an evil force destroys her and those she loves?

Do you have a secret about yourself? Rosalind Archer does. Plenty of them. In this spy thriller, based in London in 1592, fourteen–year–old Rosalind disguises herself as a boy, hides her Catholic religion, then finds a job as Christopher Marlowe's scribe. But it's not that easy. Rosalind – now Richard – knows that her enigmatic new master also has things to hide. She is unnerved by his manner and the mysterious goings–on in his life. Marlowe is not only a poet and a playwright, he's also a spy, and he's coming very close to learning Rosalind's own closely guarded secrets. To add to her troubles, Rosalind thinks she's falling in love with the costumer's apprentice at the Rose, but how can she explain that to a boy who knows her only as Richard? And when Christopher Marlowe is murdered, Rosalind must reinvent herself once more. Filled with vivid descriptions of Elizabethan England, Sarah L. Thomson's The Secret of the Rose is part espionage thriller, part historical novel, and a wholly engaging page–turner.

Twelve year old Mary Ellen has been expelled from St. Agatha's for smoking pot ― although she swears she was not ― and is subsequently whisked off by her half-sozzled father and vain stepmother to spend an extended Easter vacation at the Elms ― a gigantic Victorian-Gothic mansion belonging to her Grandmother. No mansion the size of a castle is complete without a screeching peacock, marble fireplaces, an ancient housekeeper, and a haunted nursery ― and the Elms comes fully stocked.As they drop her off at the stone porte cochére big enough to contain a small house, Mary Ellen's parents also inform her that she will be joined by Grandmother's other two granddaughters ― a get together deliberately contrived in order to decide which deserving heir will be left the family fortune. No pressure there.Although the three cousins are at first suspicious of each other, in no time at all they are deep in hair-raising (or shall we say, heir-raising?) mystery and adventure. Together they unravel the family secret, survive an enchanted snow storm, and even enter Hobbit in a gala horse show. Grandmother, by the way, hates horses, so when Mary Ellen falls in love with a miniature horse called Hobbit, she sneaks him into the nursery where he promptly chews on the Chippendale chairs and leaves other, more organic, remnants of his presence. (Won't that make grandmother happy.)A great read for young adults full of ghosts and family secrets, coming of age, and friendships that empower the discovery of mutual strength, courage and self-acceptance.

Mum knew she shouldn't have left the children alone. That was why she was hurrying home, running to catch the evening train. She was so worried about Nicky and Roy that she didn't hear the thief come up behind her; she didn't look carefully when she dashed across the road . . . Back at home Nicky is findingit harder and harder to reassure her younger brother Roy. Soon the children are running out of money and the neighbours are getting suspicious. But whatever happens, Nicky is certain of one thing - she will NEVER tell.

A vivid, heartfelt tale of a teenager's poetic quest to discover her place within her adoptive family and within the wider world.Being adopted is a fact of life in the McLane household: fourteen-year-old Lizzie, as well as her older brother and sister were adopted as infants. But dry facts rarely encompass feelings, and what it feels like to be adopted is something Lizzie never dares openly discuss with her loving parents—let alone with outsiders. More and more Lizzie yearns to confide in others, especially her boyfriend, Peter. But something stops her. Will Peter think she is "less" because her birthmother gave her away? Would telling be disloyal to her adoptive parents?Told entirely through the poems Lizzie writes for herself, this intimate, moving story gives voice to the thoughts Lizzie cannot utter aloud. Lizzie transforms relationships and events in her daily life—family dinners, the school dance, hanging out with friends—into blues poems, list poems, sonnets, sestinas, and free verse that delve into her secret wishes and her fears. Often Lizzie feels like two people: the person everyone knows, and the one known to precious few. But when a tragic accident occurs, Lizzie finds the courage to say who she truly is and to set off on a new path of self-discovery and truth.In an Afterword the author discusses her own experience as an adopted child and how writing can help make sense of one's life. Also included are a Guide to Poetic Forms and an Appendix of Poems (poems referred to in the novel, by Lucille Clifton, Hayden Carruth, Anne Sexton, Donald Hall, and others).

Family lies. Deadly creatures. Secret pacts. Civilizations across time have searched for the secret to breaching the veil between the living and the dead. Sixteen-year-old Sam Drake might have stumbled across the answer. Unfortunately that knowledge and her abilities as a medium are precisely the reasons nightmarish creatures kidnapped her only friend. In her scramble to rescue her friend, Sam discovers no one is who they appear to be—not even her family—and ghosts from the past can quickly turn the hunter into the hunted. Now, if Sam can’t unravel the truth about an ancient secret society’s connection to the creatures, it may be too late for her to save her friend and everyone she loves.

A heart warming story about a retired rugby playing grandfather who has been diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) told through the eyes of an 8 year old sports loving boy. Proud to be the grandson of a Welsh rugby great, this imaginative 8 year old boy has a moment of unexpected discovery when he thinks he has unraveled a secret that his grandfather has been keeping to himself. The story unfolds with a number of signs highlighting how his grandfather has had a recent lifestyle change from racing scooters down the driveway to resting in bed watching Ninja Warrior all day. What does he get up to in the evenings? Is there a new superhero protecting our world?A child's imagination can lift spirits even through the most melancholic of times.