Best Selling Books by Carol Plum-Ucci

It''s been eight years since Evan''s parents disappeared at sea. Searching for answers, Evan wonders if they were swallowed up by The She, the she-devil of legend that devours ships off the New Jersey coast.

Years later . . . what really happened to Christopher Creed? When Torey Adams posts on his blog that a body has been found in Steepleton—four years after Christopher Creed disappeared—college reporter Mike Mavic sells his laptop and hops a plane to capture the story that will undoubtedly launch his journalistic career. But what Mike finds is a town suffering under a cloud of bad frequency and people with an underlying streak of meanness. To the teens of Steepleton, Chris is nothing more than history—but to Justin Creed, a teen obsessed with his older brother’s memory and balancing on the edge of sanity, discovering what really happened to Chris Creed is a matter of life and death. This ebook includes a sample chapter of FIRE WILL FALL.

Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

ShadowStrike poisoned the water of Trinity Falls two months ago. Now the Trinity Four, the teens most affected by the poison, have been isolated in a remote mansion under twenty-four-hour medical care while scientists on four continents rush to discover a cure. Meanwhile, U.S. operatives scour the world for the bioterrorists responsible for this heinous crime, as two teen virtual spies, also infected, hunt for the criminals on the Internet. The danger remains real—for ShadowStrike has every reason to pursue the Trinity Four, and their evil plan will unleash a new designer virus that’s even deadlier than the first.

"A story about the threat of bioterrorism as seen through the eyes of the generation that will grow up with it as a reality . . . page-turning intensity."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Bioterrorism has come to a small town in New Jersey. Two residents die of brain aneurysms within twenty-four hours and several teens become ill with a mysterious flu, leading the government to suspect that a terrorist cell has unleashed a deadly biochemical agent. With each glass of water they drink, the people of Trinity Falls are poisoning themselves. A world away in Pakistan, a sixteen-year-old computer genius working as a spy for the U.S. sees an influx of chatter from extremists about a substance they call Red Vinegar that will lead to many deaths. Can he warn the victims before it''s too late? "The teens are the focus here, all excellent character studies drawn adeptly with few words. The swift pace grabs the reader right from the start . . . Plum-Ucci takes the incredible and makes it all too believable."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A compelling tale of bioterror . . . a tautly paced thriller that will force readers to think about the complexities of living in a post-9/11 world."— School Library Journal "A page-turner . . . Plum-Ucci has also fleshed out a basic panic-inducing scenario into a thriller more thoughtful than most."— Booklist

A taut YA crime thriller from the author of The Body of Christopher Creed. "There''s no doubt Plum-Ucci can tell a heck of a story" ( Booklist). A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires—and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey''s older brother, endures a seemingly endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questioned, one by one. Was the gunfire accidental or deliberate? Or was the whole drama one of Casey''s practical jokes? And where is Casey—or her body—now? " The Night My Sister Went Missing has all the suspense and drama of a locked-room mystery . . . Carol Plum-Ucci, author of the award-winning The Body of Christopher Creed, has crafted an intricate mystery filled with shocking surprises and characters whom readers will remember for a long time." — Teenreads "Plum-Ucci''s mastery at intensifying their observations into something dire and ominous speeds the plot along and should keep readers wondering just how this convoluted mystery will wrap up." — Kirkus Reviews "All the members of this loosely connected community harbor secrets they do not want to be revealed. But in the end, someone''s secret comes to light with devastating consequences." — Publishers Weekly "The mystery is engrossing and the dramatic ending satisfying." — School Library Journal

The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl? Popular Claire McKenzie isn''t up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the high school elite. Instead, she decides to befriend the intriguing outcast. But within days of Lani''s arrival, tragedy strikes, and Claire is left questioning herself, her friendships, and, most interesting of all, the possibility that angels may exist on earth.

Describes the history of Divali, its symbols, and how it is celebrated today.

Profiles basketball player Stephon Marbury, whose childhood dreams of an NBA career led him to play for Georgia Tech University, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the New Jersey Nets, and the Phoenix Suns.

Award-winning novelist Carol Plum-Ucci takes readers on her magical journey through four years of home schooling with daughter Abbey, now 11. This entertaining memoir will appeal to parents who want an intimate look at home schooling life as well as those who simply question the value of traditional education. Plum-Ucci states that no religious belief inspired her to home school, nor did she fancy herself a better teacher than what was found at Abbey''s local school. She fell into the home-schooling-mother role haphazardly but says now that if she can get five thousand families nationwide to lose their fears of home education and try it, she would be thrilled to have published this memoir. Winner of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and twice an Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist, Plum-Ucci writes with the same edgy and glimmering insights that readers have loved for nearly a decade.

The night before his eighteenth birthday, Toby Kellerman fell ninety feet down a well. Seven weeks passed in what he describes as "suspension h***," a rotating bed for spinal cord injuries compounded by bone breaks. Able to move only his arms and watch life through an adjustable mirror, Toby had plenty of time to think about how he got there. Somebody had pushed him. He could clearly remember running footsteps as he stared into the black well with his two younger sisters. They''d been on family vacation. Nobody knew them. There was no motive. An Anglican priest, on an evening stroll past the site, saw the brother and two sisters but nobody else. It had been dark. The police started to believe the attempted murderer could have been one of Toby''s sisters. Grace was a bouncy, bubbly 15-year-old with a ton of friends. Trinity was "special." With a stratospheric IQ, the 11-year-old had trouble talking and was considered a cutter, thanks to a compulsive habit of scratching her face. But Toby had developed a special bond after she''d been mauled by a dog six years earlier. With the help of a girl on his rehab ward, Toby begins to see that the accident smells of a haunting. He never paid much attention to local Lake Indor rot about a witch with a meat hook, but investigation has him realizing that the 18th century orphan likely died falling down a well...and likely the same well he went down. It''s not a comfortable position, being totally confined, while things start to move around the room, drawers begin to open and shut by themselves, and someone or something keeps pulling off the sock in his blind spot and scratching his leg. Where is the truth? Has he unwittingly picked up a malevolent spirit, or is he imagining it all to protect his beloved youngest sister?