ROMAN HOLIDAY (RWBY)
Artwork: Courtney Brenek
Just like every story, every friendship has a beginning…
Before she was a criminal wrapped up in the end of the world, Trivia Vanilla was the daughter of disappointed parents who wanted nothing more than for her to be normal. Locked away and pushed into the shadows, Trivia had no one to keep her company. No one, that is, other than Neopolitan, her best and only friend.
But things change after a chance encounter with the young Roman Torchwick, a criminal on the run trying to make a name for himself before his mistakes have a chance to catch up to him. As an uncertain alliance slowly turns into a true partnership, Trivia finally begins to grasp the freedom that she had always longed for. And while her parents always insisted that Neo was nothing more than a figment of her overactive imagination, Trivia realizes that she might be a larger part of her than she ever could have guessed…
2022 Scribe Award Nominee
September 2021, Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1338760866
ASIN: B08XMNNGL3
AFTER THE FALL (RWBY #1)
Cover illustration: Patrick Rodriguez
Trouble is brewing . . .
After Beacon Academy fell, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi made a vow: No one else is getting left behind. It’s been more than a year since Team CFVY saw their school destroyed by the creatures of Grimm, their friends felled in battle or scattered across the world of Remnant. Since then, they’ve been settling into life at Shade Academy in Vacuo, fighting hard to finish their training so they can find their friends and save their world.
When a distress message comes into Shade, asking for huntsmen and huntresses to defend refugees from a never-ending stream of Grimm, Team CFVY answers the call without hesitation. But in the heat of the desert, they’re forced to relive their former battles, both from the fall of Beacon and from everything that came before.
*Kirkus Starred Review: “This spinoff is funny and thrilling from beginning to end, and thoughtful writing gives the action added depth and emotional impact.”
A Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller: Children’s Frontlist Fiction
June 2019, Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1338305746
ASIN: B07HPF3N9S
BEFORE THE DAWN (RWBY #2)
Cover illustration: Breica
A storm is coming…
After their strange mission in the desert, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi are back at Shade Academy, doing some “extracurricular” work to track down The Crown, a mysterious force that’s snatching up people with powerful semblances. The job should be easier with Team SSSN by their side, but The Crown continues to evade them. Out of options and worried that a bigger plot is in motion, CFVY and SSSN notify Theodore, the Headmaster of Shade Academy, but Theodore has problems of his own.
Troubled by the disasters at Beacon and Haven Academies and struggling to support the flood of refugee students, Theodore declares a new initiation—including the formation of new teams to better unite the student body. Amid mounting tension at the school, CFVY and SSSN must contend with unfamiliar teammates and uneasy rivalries, all while The Crown plots their next move.
July 2020, Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1338305753
ASIN: B07VZ1J662
FAIRY TALES OF REMNANT (RWBY)
Cover illustration: Violet Tobacco
Fans of Rooster Teeth’s hit animated series RWBY will want to pore over every page of this gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve short fairy tales. In addition to classic tales from the show, such as “The Story of the Seasons” and “The Tale of the Two Brothers,” readers can immerse themselves in eight never-before-told stories from RWBY’s show writers. Vibrant artwork throughout completes the collection, offering new insights into the strange, beautiful, and dangerous world of Remnant.
This deluxe edition also happens to be the personal copy of Professor Ozpin, complete with a foreword from the former Beacon headmaster himself. Fans won’t want to miss this must-have collection, sure to reveal more secrets about RWBY and the stunning world of the show!
Adapted into RWBY Fairy Tales animated series
September 2020, Scholastic
ISBN: 1338652086
ASIN: B083JV4N8J
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FAIR COIN
Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason for her suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identified Ephraim’s body at the hospital that day.
Among his dead double’s belongings, Ephraim finds a strange coin — a coin that grants wishes when he flips it. With a flick of his thumb, he can turn his alcoholic mother into a model parent and catch the eye of the girl he’s liked since second grade. But the coin doesn’t always change things for the better. And a bad flip can destroy other people’s lives as easily as it rebuilds his own.
The coin could give Ephraim everything he’s ever wanted—if he learns to control its power before his luck runs out.
Winner of the 2012 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book
Finalist: 2013 Compton Crook Award
Finalist: 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)
March 2012, Pyr (OOP)
ISBN: 978-1-61614-609-2
ASIN: B01MRYDZR7
2016, Sharp Point Press (Chinese Edition)
2022, NIEKO RIMTO (Lithuanian Edition)
QUANTUM COIN
Ephraim thought his universe-hopping days were over. He’s done wishing for magic solutions to his problems; his quantum coin has been powerless for almost a year, and he’s settled into a normal life with his girlfriend, Jena. But then an old friend crashes their senior prom: Jena’s identical twin from a parallel world, Zoe.
Zoe’s timing couldn’t be worse. It turns out that Ephraim’s problems have just begun, and they’re much more complicated than his love life: The multiverse is at stake — and it might just be Ephraim’s fault.
Ephraim, Jena, and Zoe embark on a mission across multiple worlds to learn what’s going wrong and how to stop it. They will have to draw on every resource available and trust in alternate versions of themselves and their friends, before it’s too late for all of them.
If Ephraim and his companions can put their many differences aside and learn to work together, they might have a chance to save the multiverse. But ultimately, the solution may depend on how much they’re willing to sacrifice for the sake of humanity…and each other.
Oct. 2012, Pyr (OOP)
ISBN: 978-1-61614-682-5
ASIN: B01NCMZMXG
THE SILENCE OF SIX
“What is the silence of six, and what are you going to do about it?”
These are the last words uttered by 17-year-old Max Stein’s best friend, Evan: Just moments after hacking into the live-streaming Presidential debate at their high school, he kills himself.
Haunted by the image of Evan’s death, Max’s entire world turns upside down as he suddenly finds himself the target of a corporate-government witch-hunt. Fearing for his life and fighting to prove his own innocence, Max goes on the run with no one to trust and too many unanswered questions.
Max must dust off his own hacking skills and maneuver the dangerous labyrinth of underground hacktivist networks, ever-shifting alliances, and virtual identities — all while hoping to find the truth behind the “Silence of Six” before it’s too late.
YALSA selected The Silence of Six as one of its 2016 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Nov. 2014, Adaptive Books (OOP)
ISBN: 978-0-9960666-2-4
eISBN: 978-1-6346186-6-3
AGAINST ALL SILENCE (SØS #2)
Max Stein’s life hasn’t been the same since he helped expose the truth behind the social network Panjea – and revealed himself as the hacker 503-ERROR. With his own secret out, and now very much a public figure, he goes all the way to Paris to get away from the unwanted attention… and to find the mother he barely remembers. But there’s no escaping his past when Max’s sort-of girlfriend and hacktivist Penny draws him into an even bigger mess: Infamous whistleblower Ada Kiesler has information about a global corporation that wants to control the whole internet and how all our data is shared. Unable to trust computers, Max and Penny must rely on more than hacker skills to escape the law and the shadowy agents following them, traversing Europe in search of the truth and a way to reveal it without getting killed.
Aug. 2016, Adaptive Books (OOP)
ISBN: 978-0996066693
1985: STORI3S FROM SØS
1985: Stori3s from SOS is a collection of three novellas that serve as a wonderful expansion to the SØS world for new readers and the most rabid fan. These three novellas are yet another puzzle piece in the heart-pounding world filled with shadowy conspiracies and bold hacktivists.
The first story in the collection, “S.O.S.,” is a prequel to the first novel, The Silence of Six, that chronicles Evan Baxter’s frantic final twenty-four hours leading to his shocking decision that sets the stage for the series. “Doublethink” connects the dots between The Silence of Six and its sequel, Against All Silence, by letting us inside the head of teenage hacktivist Penny Polonsky. Penny faces a mysterious new challenge that could change her life―and potentially the internet―forever. And “1985,” the final story in the collection, takes us back to the early activist days of Max Stein’s parents when they were teenagers living in New York City in the mid-1980s. When they meet at a political protest in New York City, Bradley and Lianna hatch a risky plan to expose unethical practices at Bradley’s university and begin to fall in love.
These three stories offer readers a chance to dive deeper into the SØS series and to get to know some of the most intriguing characters from the award-winning first two novels.
Dec. 2017, Adaptive Books (OOP)
ISBN: 978-1945293481