What do boys really want? Lita blogs about it on her anonymous blog, while her best friend Adam decides to put the answers in a best-selling book. Funny things happen. 

Visit Lita's secret blog.

The Big Crunch is a love story, pure and simple. Well, okay, maybe not so pure and simple. It's about a year-long romance without vampires, dragons, secret societies, mysterious grandparents, unexplained deaths, violent psychopaths, drug addicts, or elves. I am putting all my elves in another book. Seriously, I am. 

See the trailer here.

Rash is set in the USSA (United Safer States of America) circa 2074, where french fries, football, and fighting are illegal, Bo Marsten must learn to live within the rules. He fails, and is sentenced to five years of making pizzas for McDonalds in a prison camp located near the arctic circle. There are polar bears.


Teacher's guide here.

Dougie Hanson is the kid everybody loves to hate, but why? Dougie can't figure it out. He thinks there must be something wrong with them.


"I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed."

Godless won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2004. It's about some teens who start their own religion worshipping a water tower.

Godless is not what you think it is. 

Teacher's guide here.

Sweetblood is a vampire novel...only not really. It's the only "vampire novel" I know of that has no supernatural or science-fictional elements.
 
Teacher's guide here.

Also, here's an essay I wrote about the genesis of Sweetblood.

The first book in The Klaatu Diskos trilogy. Tucker Feye sees his father disappear and all sorts of freaky stuff happens. 

Check out the  video.

This was my first "YA" novel. I'm putting it up here by The Obsidian Blade because the two books are loosely connected. Both are time travel stories, both feature time-and-space portals, and both have a character named "Mr. Boggs."

Teacher's guide here.

Read the first chapter here.

Think of it as Shane set in a modern day high school, with motorcycles instead of horses, tasers instead of revolvers, and a five-foot-nothing Haitian-American overdresser named Mikey in place of Brandon De Wilde. 

I love this book. It's about a fifteen-year-ol girl who steals cars. Ever see Gone in 60 Seconds? Ever play Grand Theft Auto? 

It's nothing like that at all.

Teacher's guide here.

No Limit is about a teen named Dennis Doyle who discovered within himself a talent for winning at poker.

Teacher's guide here. 

All-In is the sequel.

A deadly Flu virus has ravaged the earth. Of those infected, only one in two thousand lives, and those who do—the "Survivors"—are forever changed.