Alternative schools -- Fiction.
Dystopias
Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.
Science fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction
In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.