Young Adult!
The Jennifer Scales Series
Book 1: Available Now!
Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace
(Berkley)
Co-written with husband Anthony Alongi
And you thought puberty sucked. Try morphing into a dragon.
I knew that at this age I'd be going through a lot of changes -- but blue scales? Claws? A snout? Come on! This is ridiculous and just so unfair. And I can't believe my parents waited until the day I nearly turned into a dragon to tell me that I am one -- thanks to my dad's side of the family. Believe me, no amount of dieting can stop how big I grow when I turn dragon -- and don't get me started on the tail!
This dragon thing is going to happen every crescent moon. Can I be any more of a freak? At least I have my grandfather to show me how to get by as a weredragon. It's not easy. And I can't even tell my best friends because there are ancient enemies who want to destroy all dragons. As if my parents, school, and the soccer team weren't enough to deal with. Looks like it's up to me to protect the few fellow dragons that are still left or I won't see my next birthday. Forget about blowing out those candles. With this breath, I'll set the whole town on fire...
Book 2: Available Now!
Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light
(Berkley)
Where would you find weredragons, beaststalkers, and werachnids? You guessed. My family reunion...
Getting through high school is hard enough. Then add my weredragon life, with the trips to Crescent Valley to morph into a dragon under the constant threat of enemy attack. What's worse, I'm also half beaststalker from my mom's side. Beaststalkers and weredragons are mortal enemies, and tension is growing over some suspicious deaths lately. I must prove to both sides that they can live in harmony, just like my family. Well, most of the time...
And get this: I have a half brother with a few too many legs. Too bad he's bent on some payback for a lifetime of abandonment and my dad is his number-one target. My life's starting to look like a daytime talk show. Somehow I have to convince everyone to get along, before they take matters into their own claws...
Book 3: Available June 5, 2007!
Jennifer Scales: The Silver Moon Elm
(Berkley)
I was just starting to get comfortable in my own skin - scaly as it is. I should have known that ever since I found out I'm half weredragon and half beaststalker, things don't stay normal for long.
Following through on a promise I made my mom, I took her to Crescent Valley, where my dad and I take refuge with the other weredragons. There we met Xavier Longtail, a powerful elder dragon who doesn't believe peaceful coexistence is possible. And I started to think he was right, with all the trouble he stirred up in my family. We were all fighting and I wanted to just run or fly away...until my ex, Skip, came to my rescue and whisked me away to the movies.
That's where I fell asleep and woke up to the sight of my hometown being overrun by werachnids. Weredragons are long extinct...except for myself, of course, and the ominous Xavier Longtail. It's up to us to return the universe to normal. Can we trust each other enough to pull it off - or are we really the last of a dying breed?
Adventures of the Teen Furies (www.hardshell.com)
Andrea Grouper, chronic wise-ass and Air Force brat, has plenty to keep her busy. When she isn't battling her chauvinist father for freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, she's keeping a wary eye on her best friend (who is under psychiatric care), avoiding her best friend's creepily manic boyfriend, fending off the poetic attentions of her own boyfriend, and hiding her crush on his best friend. Add an uncaring school and a loving but clueless family to the mix, and you've got Andrea's life in a nutshell--rollicking good times, the anger of the oppressed, and painful insecurity. In other words, adolescence.
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Dying for Ice Cream (www.fictionworks.com)
Austin Opitz never meant to fall for rich and spoiled Yvonne Robinson. But when he saw her sobbing in the hospital cafeteria with a plate of ice cream melting in front of her, he couldn't walk away. So begins a strange friendship between two opposites: Yvonne, a recently diagnosed diabetic bitter about the mandatory change in her lifestyle; and jokester Austin Opitz, who covers up his own recent tragedy by playing class clown.
This is a story about teenagers getting a taste of life's ups and downs, and how they cope, despite tremendous odds.
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