Anyone? (31 page)

We hope you loved
Anyone?
by award-winning
author Angela Scott.

If so, you’re sure to love these books, too.

For lovers of young adult fiction, this girl’s
coming-of-age story is suitable for readers 13 and up:

DARLA DECKER HATES TO WAIT

The Darla Decker Diaries – Book 1

By Jessica McHugh

This young adult adventure, featuring one girl’s path
from childhood, is the first book in
The Darla Decker Diaries
series.
For more information on this book, please visit the
Evolved
Publishing
website.

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DARLA DECKER TAKES THE CAKE

The Darla Decker Diaries – Book 2

By Jessica McHugh

This much-anticipated second book in
The Darla Decker
Diaries
series will be available December 1, 2014. For more information on
this book, please visit the
Evolved
Publishing
website.

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Description of
Darla Decker Hates to Wait
:

Patience is not Darla Decker’s strong suit. Surviving sixth
grade is tough enough with an annoying older brother, a best friend acting
distant, and schoolwork. After adding instructive kissing games and the
torturous wait for a real date with her biggest crush, Darla is perpetually
torn between behaving like an adult and throwing temper tantrums.

Games of flashlight tag, and the crazy cat lady roaming
Shiloh Farms in a “demon bus,” serve as distractions during her parents’
quarrels and her anxiety about show choir auditions. Yet the more Darla waits
for her adulthood to begin, the more she learns that summoning patience won’t
be the hardest part of being eleven.

A frank and funny look at the path to adulthood,
Darla
Decker Hates to Wait
begins a journey of love, loss, and the nitty-gritty
of growing up through Darla Decker’s eyes.

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Praise for
Darla Decker Hates to Wait
:

“Young adult fiction, especially that written in a realistic
setting and from a female perspective, can’t escape the comparison to iconic
author Judy Blume. Like most of my peers, I grew up reading those novels, and
have been skeptical of drawing parallels to them in other works. In the case of
McHugh’s first installment of the
Darla Decker Diaries
, the comparison
is warranted. This novel has the potential to be to a modern audience what
Blume’s works were to girls of the 70s and 80s, and its blunt honesty and
relevant topics make it the preferable choice.” –
AvidEye

“Great YA Novel! If you’re looking for smart, edgy, funny
and a lot of heart for your tween... (and you know what, even yourself, oh
jaded adult,) the world of Darla Decker is waiting for you.” –
Nelson

“Great, fun reading - Darla Decker is a phenomenon waiting
to happen!” –
C. Clark

“Never in my life have I so deeply enjoyed a young adult
novel to the extent that I did Jessica McHugh’s
Darla Decker Hates to Wait
.
If you’ve ever been an awkward preteen/teen, there is no way to read this
without seeing yourself, your friends, your siblings and your classmates in the
characters on the pages. The problems surrounding Darla and her friends are utterly
believable, and often hard-hittingly real, but McHugh peppers them with enough
humor, endearing sentimentality, and, of course, all the right kinds of
awkwardness to make this a phenomenally well done coming-of-age story. Few and
far between are the series novels that can leave me genuinely lost in thought,
pondering what’s to come after the end of a book, but this definitely does just
that. Needless to say, I will be pre-ordering my copy of the next novel as soon
as possible.” –
Mad Mae

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Description of
Darla Decker Takes the Cake
:

A week at Camp Wakonda is exactly what Darla Decker needs.
Having said goodbye to sixth grade and her best childhood friend, she’s ready
to create new memories and meet new people. Unfortunately, entering summer camp
on a whopper of a lie and a fight with a fellow camper isn’t the best way to
begin.

Aided by her schoolmate Nate, Darla navigates the twists and
turns of life at summer camp while pretending to be Wakonda’s only “undercover
counselor.” Despite the lies, older guys, bullies, and breakdowns, Darla
discovers the truth about friendship through the mayhem and magic of camp.

A frank and funny look at the path to adulthood,
Darla
Decker Takes the Cake
continues the journey of love, loss, and the
nitty-gritty of growing up through Darla Decker’s eyes.

For lovers of Urban Fantasy, this young adult novel is suitable
for readers 13 and up:

DREAM WARRIORS

A Joey Cola Novel

By D. Robert Pease

This young adult urban fantasy, featuring magic in a
modern setting, is now available. For more information on this book, please
visit the
Evolved
Publishing
website.

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Joseph Colafranceschi is a fifteen-year-old, self-described
geek, living in the Bronx. The second youngest of twelve sons of the former
U.S. ambassador to Italy, Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given
to him by his father, endows him with power to control his dreams.

After his brothers throw him down a manhole, Joey is drawn
into a hidden society of warriors who have been battling a reincarnated
Egyptian Pharaoh for over 3,000 years. In the dream world, everyone is not what
they appear to be, and it’s impossible to tell who to trust. As Joey slips
deeper into a world of gladiator battles and clandestine missions within other
people’s dreams, he catches the eye of a beautiful Egyptian princess.

The only thing that keeps him grounded in reality is his
best friend Alex, but even she may not be who he thought she was.

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Praise for
Dream Warriors
:

“I loved
Noah Zarc
, Mr. Pease’s MG trilogy. And I
enjoyed his recent grown up fantasy,
Shadow Swarm
. But this is his best
book yet. Just as Noah was a loose parody of the Bible story, so Joey has
similarities to the biblical story of Joseph. If you’re familiar with those old
favorites, I’ll let you pick out the parallels--there’s a bunch. But Joey soon
takes a dive into the fantasy world that’s full of originality, fun, danger,
romance, and suspense. There are some great twists and turns in here that I
never saw coming! This one is appropriately billed as YA. There is some
violence, but it’s mostly, well, dreamlike. Dream warriors have some great
gladiator scenes, but they can’t die. Mortal blows simply send them back to
wakefulness. But they can be killed if they’re followed back to their physical
bodies. Also, romance is sweet. There’s some very mild sensuality. Nothing I’d
censor for my kids (and I’m pretty conservative), but it might be enough to
gross out fourth or fifth graders. Language is 100% clean. I highly, highly
recommend this one for anyone eighth grade or older.”—
Michelle Isenhoff

“Must say I was very impressed with this book. Very
enjoyable. It even had me jumping off my bed in anxious excitement at one
point. A mix of fantasy, action, mythology and our very own dreams. There is a
bit of romance, some fun fight scenes, lots of ‘familiar’ faces, magic and a
hint of mythology. A wonderful blend that I quickly latched onto and held on to
the end. As soon as I finished this book, I jumped online to learn more about
the next book. I am so impatient to read it!”—
J. Rivera

“Yes, this is a book intended for young adults, but I
enjoyed it so much that I immediately turned around to read it a second time. I
wanted to make sure I had not missed any subtle clues Mr. Pease may have given.
I didn’t miss anything that might have warned me of the ending to come, but was
surprised at the detail that went into building the dream world and how it
works. The characters are the type that stay with you long after you turn the
page and close the book. I am admitting that as a woman well into middle age I
am eagerly awaiting book two in this series to be released in March of 2015. I
will definitely have a note on my calendar to be on the lookout for the next
gem. If you do not want to wait for March after you finish
Dream Warriors
,
you may want check D. Robert Pease’s
Noah Zarc Trilogy
.”—
Del Anne

“What nerdy, geeky kid wouldn’t want to fall asleep and wake
up in a dream world where he morphed into a cross between King Leonidas and the
Incredible Hulk? This element of the story alone is enough to draw readers to
Dream
Warriors
. The story rates five stars, it was a fun read and I’d recommend
it to readers age 13 and up.”—
Kevin Gerard

For lovers of grand Sci-Fa, a blend of Science
Fiction and Fantasy (suitable for readers 13 and older):

THE SILVER SPHERE

by Michael Dadich

This Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel, an extraordinary
tale of two inter-connected planets fighting evil, has won multiple awards, and
is appropriate for adults, but also for kids 12 and older. For more
information, please visit the
Evolved Publishing
website.

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...and many more awards!

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Shelby Pardow never imagined she could kill someone. All she
wants to do is hide from her troubled father... when she is teleported to
awaiting soldiers on the planet Azimuth. Here she is not a child, but Kin to
one of the six Aulic Assembly members whom Malefic Cacoethes has drugged and
imprisoned. He seeks to become dictator of this world (and then Earth by
proxy).

His father, Biskara, is an evil celestial entity, tracked by
the Assembly with an armillary device, The Silver Sphere. With the Assembly now
deposed, Biskara directs Malefic and the Nightlanders to their strategic
targets. Unless....

Can Shelby find the other Kin, and develop courage and
combat skills? Can the Kin reassemble in time to release or replace the
Assembly, overthrowing Malefic and restraining Biskara?

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Praise for
The Silver Sphere
:

“
The Silver Sphere
is a classic good-versus-evil
fantasy adventure of epic proportions. We’ve often said that science fiction
and fantasy are the hardest novels to write as it involves the arduous task of
world building. The Silver Sphere is successful in its creation of sister
planet Azimuth, we suspect, because author Dadich let his heroic story marinate
since childhood.

Stories of this caliber need time to develop and mature to
be told properly. J.R.R. Tolkien took 12+ years to write, edit and release his
magnum opus,
The Lord of the Rings
trilogy. J.K. Rowling conceived many
of her ideas about Harry Potter and Hogwarts in her childhood, only to return
to them later and leave her mark on the literary world. C.S. Lewis originally
envisioned what would become
The Chronicles of Narnia
ten years before
he wrote the first book in the series. Our point is that Dadich is in good
company, and the protracted construction time might portend great things for
The
Silver Sphere
.

We mention Tolkien, Rowling and Lewis upfront because you’ll
inevitably start making comparisons about these authors’ great works right
away; but T
he Silver Sphere
is no knock off of these iconic novels.
Dadich’s sophisticated novel can stand on its own.” –
Wise Bear Books
(Awarded
The Silver Sphere
their 2013 Gold Medal in Young Adult Fiction
– Science Fiction/Fantasy)

“This book has intrigue, betrayal, suspense, and a lot more.
I appreciated seeing the threads of the plot tied together, after they started
so far apart. Certain interactions between characters were predictable while
some others were a complete surprise. The characters’ backgrounds were worked
out well throughout the story, and appear to have influenced their actions in
ways that made sense. The illustrations of some of the creatures in the book
helped a lot. The best part by far was that this author made me care about his
characters.
The Silver Sphere
is a very enjoyable book.” –
Readers’
Favorite Book Reviews and Awards (Awarded
The Silver Sphere
their 2013
Gold Medal in Young Adult Fiction – Fantasy/Sci-Fi)