A Boy Named Pluto is an entertaining, yet educational book about the solar system that integrates multiple levels of analogy and parallel references in telling the story about Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet. On the surface, the book tells how a group of human-like friends rally around one of their own in an attempt to save him from an undesirable situation. The touching and heartfelt analogy presents to readers the struggle children have in desiring to be socially accepted. Below the surface, the readers are exposed to a correlating story about the solar system, teaching children...

The popular girls. Every school has one. And for some reason, they seem to have additional power when they exist at prestigious private schools. When it came to Arabella Academy, the rules were no different. If you asked anyone to point out the popular clique, the fingers would all point in the same direction. Eva St. George, Amelia Jackson, Lily Smith, Pilar Martinez, and Kenna Reid held reign over the student body, and some of the teachers, with little to no effort at all. Some would say that it came to them naturally. If there was one thing that set them apart from other high school...

Emma Cohen should be on top of the world. She has just graduated from Tulane University with a dual degree in English and Journalism and it is time for her life to begin. But when her boring, normal parents fail to show up to her celebratory dinner, everything starts to fall apart. Losing her parents is hard enough. But then the family attorney shows up to the hospital and informs her that she must run because there is a family secret that killed her parents and it still isn't safe for her know the truth. Instead of attending her parents' funeral and saying goodbye to her childhood home, she...