New Releases by David Klass

His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn''t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He''d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they''ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time–bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it''s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man''s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong? In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.

A taut psychological thriller for teens Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy''s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison. He returns to a family deeply divided about having him back home. Jeff can''t forget how his life was disrupted by his brother, how his family had to move to another state and start over. Still, his parents believe things will be different now. But Troy''s return makes a mess of Jeff ''s life – at home, at school, and with his girlfriend. When Jeff ''s rival on the soccer field turns up missing, Jeff suspects Troy is involved, and he sets out to prove it. But nothing could prepare Jeff for what happens as he gets closer to the truth. With unexpected flashes of humor, David Klass once again gives readers a gripping, multilayered novel about good and evil and the powerful bonds of family. Dark Angel is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children''s Book of the Year.

"Um livro potente que joga luz sobre a bomba-relógio que é a mudança climática." — Star Tribune “Um thriller de alta qualidade. Klass incorpora pontos de vista que se alternam e protagonistas profundos e bem desenvolvidos.” — The Wall Street Journal “Uma perseguição de gato e rato escrita por um roteirista veterano de Hollywood. A trama é impecável.” — The Times Neste suspense explosivo, um ecoterrorista orquestra um ataque atrás do outro e nada parece capaz de detê-lo Depois de seu sexto ataque e mais de quarenta pessoas mortas, o criminoso conhecido como Homem Verde continua sendo celebrado pelos ambientalistas e temido pelo FBI. Ele sabe que a qualquer momento cometerá um erro e será capturado, mas ainda não pode parar. Seus ataques contra alvos que ameaçam o meio ambiente são necessários para chamar a atenção do mundo para a emergência da mudança climática. Enquanto ele planeja o próximo grande atentado, seu gran finale, os 300 homens da força-tarefa do FBI continuam sem nenhuma pista. Até que Tom Smith, um jovem analista de dados, se junta à caçada com uma proposta de investigação nada ortodoxa, que logo se torna a única esperança de neutralizá-lo. Estado de alerta é um livro eletrizante e cheio de nuances, com personagens imperfeitos e cativantes. David Klass, que além de escritor é roteirista de Hollywood, construiu uma narrativa em que as forças opostas se sobrepõem o tempo todo e que nos faz torcer a cada momento para um lado até o desfecho cinematográfico.

“Mr. Klass, an experienced screenwriter, incorporates shifting points of view and a score of diverse characters with well-developed backstories. His top-notch thriller builds toward a fateful showdown.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] compelling cat-and-mouse chase by [a] veteran Hollywood scriptwriter.”—The Times (London), “Thriller of the Month” In this critically acclaimed thriller, a fiendishly clever serial bomber and self-styled ecoterrorist hits targets across America—and a conflicted young FBI agent may be the only person possessing the unique skills needed to catch him. A massive FBI manhunt is underway for an elusive and terrifyingly adept serial bomber. He''s just struck his sixth target, Idaho''s Boon Dam, killing a dozen innocent people. But the bomber, who calls himself “Green Man,” insists these drastic acts of violence—each one carefully selected to destroy a target that threatens the environment—are necessary to draw the world''s attention to the climate change emergency. The FBI has no real leads. It''s as if Green Man can predict every step of their investigation, skillfully evading all their standard tactics. Until young agent Tom Smith approaches the taskforce leader with an unexpected insight. Tom, a computer programmer by training, may be the only person with the skill set needed to catch Green Man before he strikes again. . . .

Seit Monaten fahndet das FBI erfolglos nach einem Terroristen. Die Zahl der Todesopfer steigt, doch der Mörder, der nur als »Green Man« bekannt ist, entkommt ein ums andere Mal. Jeder Angriff ist strategisch geplant, um ein Ziel zu zerstören, das die Umwelt bedroht. Und mit jedem Anschlag wächst die Schar seiner Anhänger. Tom Smith, ein junger, unerfahrener Datenanalyst beim FBI, glaubt etwas entdeckt zu haben, das alle anderen übersehen haben. Doch als er sich Amerikas gefährlichstem Mann nähert, muss er sich die Frage stellen: Was, wenn der Mann, den er um jeden Preis aufhalten will, in Wahrheit versucht, die Welt zu retten?

‘Geen weg terug is een uitdagend, belangrijk en zeer spannend boek. Ik vond het geweldig, heb genoten van elke bladzijde.’ James Patterson De FBI is een massale klopjacht gestart op een ongrijpbare en uiterst slimme aanslagpleger. Hij heeft zojuist zijn zesde doelwit getroffen, de Boon Dam in Idaho, waarbij een twaalftal mensen zijn omgekomen. De terrorist, die door de pers Green Man is gedoopt, verklaart dat deze drastische aanslagen – elk doelwit zorgvuldig uitgekozen vanwege de impact op het milieu – noodzakelijk zijn om de aandacht van de wereld te vestigen op de onomkeerbare gevolgen van klimaatverandering. De FBI heeft geen echte aanwijzingen. Het is alsof Green Man elke stap van hun onderzoek kan voorspellen en al hun tactieken vakkundig ontwijkt. Tot de jonge agent Tom Smith de taskforceleider benadert met een onverwacht inzicht. Tom, computerprogrammeur van opleiding, is misschien de enige persoon die de unieke vaardigheden bezit om Green Man te vinden voordat hij opnieuw toeslaat.

In this table-turning novel about the thrill of defeat and the agony of victory, the new rule at Jack Logan''s sports-crazy New Jersey high school is that all kids must play on a team. So Jack and a ragtag group of anti-athletic friends decide to get even. They are going to start a rebel JV soccer team whose mission is to avoid victory at any cost, setting out to secretly undermine the jock culture of the school. But as the team''s losing formula becomes increasingly successful at attracting fans and attention, Jack and his teammates are winning in ways they never expected-and don''t know how to handle.

Ein atemberaubend spannender Roman, in dem Daniel, ein junger Schachspieler, sorgsam gehütete, dunkle Geheimnisse seines Vaters erfährt. Die Entdeckungen, die er bei dem entscheidenden Turnier macht, bleiben auch für ihn nicht folgenlos. Er bemerkt einige überraschende Züge an sich selbst. Ist er vielleicht gar nicht der Verlierertyp, für den ihn bisher seine Kameraden gehalten haben und in dessen Rolle er sich selbst fühlt? Auch seinen Vater sieht Daniel auf einmal mit anderen Augen an. Und am Schachbrett sitzt ihm plötzlich kein männlicher Kontrahent gegenüber, sondern ein selbstbewusstes, spontanes Mädchen namens Liu ...

"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--

Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school''s star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper''s sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry''s best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury in the game comes at too high a cost in a player''s life—but not everyone in Kendall wants to hear it... David Klass and Perri Klass''s Second Impact is an action-packed story will resonate with readers who have been following recent news stories are football injuries.

Ketchvar III''s mission is simple: travel to Planet Earth, inhabit the body of an average teenager, and determine if the human race should be annihilated. And so Ketchvar—who, to human eyes, looks just like a common snail—crawls into the brain of one Tom Filber and attempts to do his analysis. At first glance, Tom appears to be the perfect specimen—fourteen years old, good health, above average intelligence. But it soon becomes apparent that Tom Filber may be a little too average—gawky, awkward, and utterly abhorred by his peers. An alien within an alien''s skin, Ketchvar quickly finds himself wrapped up in the daily drama of teenage life—infuriating family members, raging bullies, and undeniably beautiful next-door neighbors. And the more entangled Ketchvar becomes, the harder it is to answer the question he was sent to Earth to resolve: Should the Sandovinians release the Gagnerian Death Ray and erase the human species for good? Or is it possible that Homo sapiens really are worth saving? Wickedly wry and hysterically skewed, David Klass''s take on teen life on our fabulously flawed Planet Earth is an engrossing look at true friends, truer enemies, and awkward alien first kisses. Stuck on Earth is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children''s Book of the Year.

In Timelock, the thrilling finale to the Caretaker Trilogy, the end of life as we know it has arrived, and history will be made -- or lost -- at the hands of one young hero. Jack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth. Now he''s more than ready to get back to life as a typical teenager and spend some quality time with his girlfriend, P.J. Too bad the world has other plans. Wrenched away once more from those he knows and loves, Jack is thrust through time to the fiery deserts of the future and the frozen tundra of the Arctic, battling cyborgs, zombie warlocks, and scorpions the size of tanks. At least he has Gisco -- everyone''s favorite surly telepathic canine -- to keep him company, not to mention the Ninja Babe, Eko. And he will finally be reunited with the parents who abandoned him so long ago, in order that he might save their dying planet. But it isn''t only a race to save Earth. As the clock ticks down before the final confrontation with the dreaded Dark Lord, Jack must decide once and for all who he really is -- prince of the future or humble human of the present -- and choose between the two women who love him.

Jack finds himself embroiled in another dangerous adventure when, after a six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River town where he grew up to find his girlfriend PJ only to discover that she is missing and everyone believes him to be responsible for her disappearance and the death of his family.

Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don''t Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent. John ("My father named me after a toilet!") wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him -- not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It''s true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything. And then there''s his home: his father ran off years ago, so he''s being raised by his mother, who works long hours, and by her boyfriend, whom John calls "the man who is not and never will be my father." This man is his enemy, an abusive disciplinarian who seems to want to kill John and, in a horrible final confrontation, nearly succeeds.

What makes an average American high school suddenly become violent? As Joe Brickman heads into the fall of his senior year, he''s looking forward to the soccer season, when he will captain the Lawndale team. And surely this will be the year when he and his neighbor Kristine stop teasing each other and begin dating. But scary, unpredictable things start happening at Lawndale High. It''s hard to tell what touches off the storm. Is it the arrival of Antonio Silva, a.k.a. the Phenom, a Brazilian soccer star who transforms the Lawndale Braves into a contender, and in doing so clashes with football players? Is it the shake-up of the social order in the school, when the Phenom starts dating Kris, and soccer becomes the "in" sport? Is it the brutal humiliation of Joe''s best friend, Ed "the Mouse" McBean, and is Ed planning on taking some dark revenge on the entire school? Perhaps it''s all of these new twists, and something older. As violence and danger escalate and school officials clamp down with zero tolerance, Joe finds himself searching for the courage to break free from the forces that threaten to take him down with the home of the Braves. In his powerful and timely new novel, David Klass dramatizes the many ways in which past violence returns to haunt the present.

John, le personnage principal de ce roman, annonce la couleur. Et il n''épargne personne : surtout pas l''homme " qu''est pas son père ", qui n''hésite pas à le frapper; surtout pas Mrs. Moonface et les autres professeurs de son " anti-école " sur lesquels il jette un regard caustique ; surtout pas une mère absente et épuisée par la vie à qui il s''adresse pourtant tout au long de ce récit. Mais il ne s''agit pas pour autant d''un règlement de comptes... Ouvrir Tu ne me connais pas, c''est entendre résonner à son oreille la voix de John, fière et forte. C''est apprendre à le connaître, découvrir sa réalité brutale et troublante. Face à des situations qui en laisseraient plus d''un sur le tapis, John s''avère plein de ressources. Il démonte avec lucidité le monde qui l''entoure, le rendant plus supportable. Ou comment transformer un ennuyeux cours de tuba en une rencontre avec un crapaud géant se prenant pour un instrument ; comment faire en sorte que l''humour et l''autodérision prennent en permanence le pas sur la difficulté à vivre...

Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother''s abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.

As the only white basketball player on the American "Dream Team," Jimmy Doyle makes some discoveries about racism, prejudice, and politics when the team plays in an international tournament. Reprint.

High-school senior Liz Wheaton lands a big movie role and discovers the glamour and darker side of Hollywood, where everyone she meets is playing a part. By the author of California Blue and Danger Zone.

When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.

Champion high school wrestler Ron Woods faces a soul-searching season when he refuses to retake a mandatory drug test he has failed. This decision affects every area of his life, including his feelings about his father, who died in Vietnam, and his first tentative romance.

High school baseball star Jim Roark is delighted to meet Jennifer Douglas, the second basewoman on the girls'' softball team, until she becomes the first female player on his all-male team.

Seventeen-year-old Tony, a soccer player whose parents are divorcing, goes to Atami, Japan, to spend four-and-a-half months with a Japanese family.

After the death of Jerry''s mother, his father takes the family to Japan for a summer, where Jerry suffers from boredom and loneliness until he discovers the local high school baseball team.