Jennifer Brown, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-04144-7
When Val and her boyfriend Nick write the names of the people who torment or annoy them in a notebook dubbed the “Hate List,” she has no idea that Nick will use it as a checklist the day he brings a gun to school, killing several people,
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Jennifer Brown. Little, Brown, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-08695-0
Haunted by the death of her mother many years earlier in a car accident, Alex has long dreamed of visiting the Colorado mountains that were her mother's destination. Alex and BFFs Bethany and Zack are gearing up for a cross-country road trip to...
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Jennifer Brown. Little, Brown, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-18557-8
The bond between a brother and sister is stretched to the breaking point in this well-crafted road-trip drama born out of intense family pressures and questionable decisions. Seventeen-year-old Kendra defines herself by two things: her drive for...
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Jennifer Brown. Little, Brown, $18 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-24553-1
When a tornado strikes Jersey’s hometown in Missouri, her house and neighborhood are destroyed, but her losses cut much deeper: her mother and five-year-old sister are among the many killed in the storm. Jersey counts on her stepfather to help her...
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Jennifer Brown. Little, Brown, $17.99 (282p) ISBN 978-0-316-20972-4
When Ashleigh texts a naked picture of herself to her college-bound boyfriend, Kaleb, at an end-of-summer party before her junior year, she has no idea what she has unleashed. After an ugly breakup, Kaleb passes the picture around, and it...
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Jennifer Brown. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61963-252-3
In Brown’s first middle-grade novel, 12-year-old Arcturus “Arty” Chambers, named for the star by his space-obsessed family, has big plans to find life on Mars. He’s built a communication device and has two best friends who monitor his progress. When
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Jennifer Brown. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61963-454-1
Seventh-grader Luke Abbott lives for afternoons spent playing video games like Alien Onslaught. So he is upset when his father insists that Luke join a new after-school robotics club, led by a hapless teacher and populated with a group of misfits...
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Jennifer Brown. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-232443-6
In this gritty thriller, first in a series, 17-year-old Nikki Kill is plunged into a web of lies when a classmate she barely knows is attacked and left for dead, having contacted Nikki as her last act. Nikki has synesthesia: words, numbers, and...
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Jennifer Brown, illus. by Marta Kissi. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68119-174-4
A knack for magic tricks (and a bit of alchemy) lands sixth-grader Thomas Fallgrout at the Pennybaker Hill Academy for the Uniquely Gifted, where he befriends thespian Wesley, who speaks in many accents and wields a mean spitball-shooting straw....
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Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown. Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4422-2266-3
Beginning with a chilling reminder about how contaminated cantaloupe killed consumers in 2011, journalists Booth and Brown of The Denver Post present an eye-opening, authoritative account of the everyday dangers in the U.S. food industry and provide
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