Most Popular Books by Todd Strasser

Master storyteller Todd Strasser reimagines the classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future—and takes readers on an epic sci-fi adventure. When seventeen-year-old Ishmael wakes up from stasis aboard the Pequod, he is amazed by how different this planet is from the dirty, dying, Shroud-covered Earth he left behind. But Ishmael isn’t on Cretacea to marvel at the fresh air, sunshine, and endless blue ocean. He’s here to work, risking his life to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. Even though easy prey abounds, time and again the chase boat crews are ordered to ignore it in order to pursue the elusive Great Terrafin. It’s rumored that the ship’s captain, Ahab, lost his leg to the beast years ago, and that he’s now consumed by revenge. But there may be more to Captain Ahab’s obsession. Dark secrets and dangerous exploits swirl around the pursuit of the beast, and Ishmael must do his best to survive—if he can.

Kate Blessings has made it to her senior year, but being the boss of the family has taken its toll. While dealing with her enemies she is pulled back into a love triangle. Will she be able to survive?

Twelve-year-old Steven and his younger brother Benjy make a desperate attempt to force their extremely busy parents to spend more time together with them.

Kennin is determined to go legit despite the popularity he has gained with racing, but when his sister''s boyfriend starts causing trouble, Kennin decides he must put his family first and accept the risks involved.

The Tardy Boys show up at school on a warm winter morning to get ready for hockey practice, discover that the rink has been taken over by penguins and realize that it is up to them to keep the creatures from becoming extinct.

Nicole wants to stop global warming or find a cure for cancer--but all that can wait until after Brad invites her to the prom. When Brad invites Dulcie instead, Nuicole recruits grunge king Chase, her next-door neighbor and sandbox partner. She does a complete makeover on his image, transforming him into a stud muffin, and he gets his first taste of the P word--popularity. Young Adult.

Meet a very smart Basset Hound named Wordsworth and his very strange family.

During the Spanish colonization of Mexico, a young girl invents a diving bell to save her brother and her people.

Jake Sherman and his friends go to Camp Grimley, and find that their back-to-nature counselor is not what he seems.

Two books in one, the story starts with a boy named Jake seemingly doomed to repeat the first day of school over and over. In the second book Jake experiences the same phenomena at summer camp!

There''s a rumor that the girls keep a Kissing Book hidden in their locker room. In the book they judge how each boy in the grade kisses. Kyle and his friends have heard that someone has written some pretty bad things about them. Can it really be true? There''s only one way to find out. They''ll have to get that book. But to do it they''ll have to go where no boy has gone before.

Skinny Cat is the scrawniest, scraggliest, laziest cat ever, but he has one very big, very disgusting talent-- he can cough up hair balls like a champ. Wil that be enough for him to win the school''s cat talent show?

Drift it. Sling it. Slide it. Shred it . . . . Just don''t get T-boned. Kennin is new to Sin City, running from a tragic past and anxious to start a life outside the gearhead crowd. But he can''t resist the lure of all the hot, tricked-out cars in Las Vegas. When Kennin accidentally proves his drifting talent, he''s pulled into a tsuiso battle against the toughest drivers around. The street drifting competition is cutthroat, and Kennin''s outsider status only makes it worse. With ugly rivalries and vicious sabotage all around him, Kennin''s ride will be gut-wrenchingly dangerous . . . and totally amping.

Uma experiência escolar. Um movimento imparável. Um alerta urgente. Até aonde irias para pertencer? Numa sala de aula, na disciplina de História, uma pergunta inquietante dá início a uma experiência que foge rapidamente ao controlo. Para explicar como foi possível o surgimento do nazismo, um professor cria A Onda, um movimento baseado na disciplina, na união e na obediência. O que começa como um exercício pedagógico depressa se transforma num poderoso fenómeno de grupo, que alastra a toda a escola, tornando-se capaz de seduzir, excluir e silenciar. À medida que a Onda cresce, os alunos sentem-se parte de algo maior, mas o preço dessa pertença é a perda da individualidade, do pensamento crítico e da empatia. Nem todos aceitam calar as dúvidas e a resistência de alguns revela o lado mais sombrio da experiência. Inspirado num caso real ocorrido nos Estados Unidos, em 1969, A Onda é um romance perturbador e atual sobre conformismo, manipulação e os perigos da obediência cega. Uma leitura essencial que mostra como o autoritarismo pode nascer nos lugares mais inesperados e como ninguém está imune ao seu apelo.

"Is being a hot Hollywood mega-star all it''s cracked up to be? Not if you''re box-office star Rick Coogin, who jets off to do a fertilizer promotion and ends up a distorted, mutated freak in a land full of them!"--Cover

When first published 20 years ago, Kaffir Boy changed the way the West understood South Africa. As powerful today as when it was first written, Mathabane''s remarkable story of life under apartheid is told with brutal honesty and gives the reader a rare gl