Driver’s Ed

ByCaroline B. Cooney

Driver's Ed means a license which means freedom. Remy and Morgan can't wait.

When they take a late-night joyride with someone who already has a license, they end up stealing a stop sign.

Their innocent prank turns deadly, and Remy and Morgan share a painful secret.

What do you do when you didn't mean it, but you can't change what's happened? 

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Legacy

by Tom

Sniegoski

What if your deadbeat dad was a superhero?

What if you found out your deadbeat father is a superhero? Would you leave your small-town life to take up the mantle of a father you never

knew? For 18-year-old Lucas, the choice is an easy one: he’s not going to leave behind his

mother and his comfortable life for a father who’s never shown any interest in him. But his father—known officially as billionaire Clayton Hartwell, and secretly as the

vigilante superhero The Raptor—tells Lucas that as he is dying, evil is growing, and the world needs Lucas to become the new Raptor.

When Lucas’s mother is killed by mysterious warriors, he realizes that his father is right.

Once in Seraph City, Lucas is stunned by the amount of poverty and crime. But after observing his father’s “heroic” behavior up close, Lucas is left wondering

about the line between good and evil. And eventually, he must decide whether to take a stand against the one man who

loves him in order to defend a world that desperately needs him.

Legacy by Tom Sniegoski explores good and evil and that murky gray area in-between. At the age of 18, Lucas, a high school dropout learns that his estranged, dying father is a superhero - and expects his son to take up his mantle. Lucas is understandably reluctant to do so, not only because the world of superheroes (and villains) is so different from his own, but because he doesn't want to connect with his deadbeat dad. He's never been there for Lucas before -- why should Lucas be there for him now? Meanwhile, Lucas is content with his life as an auto mechanic, and while he's not lazy or ignorant, he doesn't really have any aspirations to do more or less than what he's already doing. These universal themes transcend the sci-fi aspect of the story and will pull in readers who like stories about family struggles and characters who feel lost after high school, while the superhero storyline will attract those after action and adventure, good guys versus bad guys, and climatic showdowns.