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Please Don't Tell My Parents I Saved the World Again by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 109,480. Language: English. Published: April 23, 2024 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Graphic novels & comics » Superheroes
Magic, mad science, and teenagers are a recipe for trouble. As the only living necromancer, fifteen-year-old Avery Special has too much trouble as it is. Trying to use her dark powers for good, she awakens a cyborg from a coma. The superintelligent Tonika is grateful and full of plans to help Avery help others, but the more Avery helps, the more trouble she gets in.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 85,850. Language: English. Published: April 4, 2023 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Graphic novels & comics » Superheroes
When an evil artifact offers you the power to turn into a monster, agreeing would be stupid. Mirabelle isn't stupid. She also doesn't have much choice. Her friends all have super powers that let them go on exciting adventures. Mirabelle's super power is to be made of glass. But the shiny rock won't shut up, and to get rid of it, she has to use its powers against it.
A Spaceship Repair Girl Supposedly Named Rachel by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 104,350. Language: English. Published: August 16, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
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One minute, Rachel is taking a break from babysitting. The next, she's escaping the Earth on a pedal-powered interplanetary bus. It could happen to anybody. Generally it doesn't, but it could. Because what Rachel soon learns is that Earth is infected with Math, which is why we look at our solar system and see freezing balls of ice, gas, and rock whirling lifelessly through a hostile void.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 117,630. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Avery Special is the world's only living necromancer, and she's pretty bad at it. She also just moved to L.A., where trouble has been waiting for a necromancer. Trouble that doesn't care how strong she is, or that she's only fifteen. Monsters, magical artifacts, occultists and television producers only care that a real necromancer is back.
Wild Children by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 133,510. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Bad children are punished. Be bad, a child is told, and you’ll be turned into an animal, marked with your crime. The Wild Children are forever young, but that, too, can be a curse. Five children each tell a different story of what they became: One learns that wrong can be right, and her curse may be a blessing. Another is so Wild he must learn the simplest lesson, to love someone else.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 96,100. Language: English. Published: May 4, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
What do you do when you have the wrong super powers? Magenta's older brother is a superhero. She's starting high school at the school where kids with powers go, including the famous Inscrutable Machine. Except, Magenta's powers are no good for fighting. Her potions are useful, not dangerous. Her other power is just humiliating.
Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 95,320. Language: English. Published: June 24, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark, Fiction » Fantasy » General
Have you ever had the nightmare of being chased by a beast? Then you’ve met Fang. He’ll be the first to admit that he’s a very simple nightmare. All he knows is hunting your dreams and dragging them into the Dark. He’s not ready for his life to get complicated. He’s not ready to be dragged into his best friend’s schemes to make dreams so terrifying they break people.
I Did Not Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 89,090. Language: English. Published: March 13, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Being a superhero should be fun. After all, a world of super powers is a world where amazonian juggernauts made of candy battle guys in spandex that drive talking cars. Irene loves that weirdness, loves the game of fighting, and loves being a four foot tall woman who still gets to drop big heavy objects on villains' heads. In 1980, that fun is in danger.
Quite Contrary by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 106,630. Language: English. Published: February 16, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first? Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes.
You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 106,390. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » General
In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker, a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes. What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side.
Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 121,000. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Middle school supervillain Penny Akk has defeated every challenge thrown against her. She has bested heroes, villains, weirdos who can't make up their minds, robots, aliens, friends, rivals, enemies, natural disasters, secret admirers, and her own shyness. Now she has only one opponent left. Her own super power. ...and the other Penny who stole it.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 87,720. Language: English. Published: November 6, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
It's summertime for supervillains! Or maybe not, because for Penelope Akk, there is still one foe she has yet to defeat: her own reputation as Bad Penny. It's been a fun ride: fighting adult heroes, going to space, and inspiring the rest of her school to open up about their own powers. Sooner or later, that ride has to end, and with school out of the way Penny is hatching a mad scheme to end it.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 103,420. Language: English. Published: September 7, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
What would middle school be like if half your classmates had super powers? It's time for Penny Akk to find out. Her latest (failed) attempt to become a superhero has inspired the rest of the kids in her school to reveal their own powers. Now, all of her relationships are changing. She has a not-at-all-secret admirer, who wants to be Penny's partner almost as much as she wants to be Penny's rival.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 120,790. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Supervillains do not merely play hooky. True, coming back to school after a month spent fighting—and defeating—adult superheroes is a bit of a comedown for The Inscrutable Machine. When offered the chance to skip school in the most dramatic way possible, Penelope Akk can't resist. With the help of a giant spider and mysterious red goo, she builds a spaceship and flies to Jupiter.
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 143,860. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life, nothing is that clear. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it.
A Rag Doll's Guide to Here and There by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 135,640. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
What would you do with an enchanted kingdom of living puppets? Would you look for adventures, or enjoy the sights of a stranger than strange land? Would you rest and make friends in this one safe place, or build new wonders for the next child who needs a refuge? Would you rule? Would you smash your toys, because the outside world hurts?

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