Machine Teen

As a 17-year-old high school senior, all Tripp Masters wants is a goodnight kiss. But his date with the prettiest girl in school takes an unexpected turn when they come across a strange portal spinning at his uncle's house. Pulled into the past, they are left to their own devices to figure out where they are - and how to get back home. While navigating this strange age they they come across Tripp's uncle, a world-renowned scientist who created the portal. He gives them a warning: a highly trained soldier with a taste for blood came back in time with him and is now threatening to kill the ...

Seventeen-year-old Buddy Lewek has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City.Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he’s sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio. Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before.

It's the summer of 1932 in New York City, and word on the street is that Joey Drew Studios is planning something big: a new cartoon character to star alongside the world-famous Bendy! The new addition, Alice Angel, has the halo and sweet disposition to match her name, but the twisted tale of her creation can't be told from just one perspective. From the animators to the voice actresses to the guy who sweeps the floors, everyone has something to say about birth of the little angel who almost brought the most powerful cartoon studio in the big city to its doom.

Scientist Rayne Ryder has dedicated her life to studying Kaiju—the colossal beasts hell-bent on destroying the rest of humanity's twenty-one remaining cities. She just thinks they’re neat! When her company discovers that she has an uncanny talent for piloting Machina, the giant robots used to fight the monsters one-on-one, her life is completely upended. Instead of staying in the comfort of the lab, she has to earn her place in the Crew of the best Machina operators Anchorage Protectorate has to offer.

🌤️ Soar into the Wonders Above with The Ultimate Sky Facts for Kids, Teens, & Adults! Take off on a breathtaking journey across the skies with this fun and fascinating sky-themed adventure! Packed with hundreds of amazing facts, inspiring stories, record-breaking marvels, and mind-blowing discoveries, this beautifully illustrated book explores everything that flies — from birds and airplanes to clouds, weather, and beyond. Whether you're a curious kid, a lifelong learner, or a family looking to explore the world above together, this book will have you looking up in awe. Explore the ...

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, and lived a pampered life with his parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in 1930s Europe. Using their last reserves of wealth and influence to escape extermination, the Rosenbergs go underground to avoid the Gestapo. Eventually exposed, captured, and taken to Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp in Germany, Alexander and his father collaborate to survive one day at a time

The hardest thing to build is the courage to begin. When the plant where his father has worked for eleven years announces an AI-powered automation rollout, Luke Lawson knows what it means for his town. He finds the American AI Challenge, a national competition with a fifty-thousand-dollar grant and a way to build something that matters. When he mentions it at dinner, his father sets down his fork and forbids it, quietly and completely, because no son of his will help build the thing coming for this town. Luke enters anyway. With Lucy and four other friends, salvaged hardware, and a gutted ...

Are you ready to explore the amazing world of artificial intelligence? 100 Fun Facts About Artificial Intelligence takes young readers on an exciting journey into the fast-changing world of smart machines, clever robots, learning computers, and the incredible technology shaping our future. From voice assistants and self-driving cars to machine learning and futuristic robots, this book is packed with fun, surprising, and easy-to-understand facts that make AI exciting for kids, teens, and curious minds of all ages. Whether you are a future inventor, a technology lover, a student who wants to ...

Artificial intelligence is shaping our world in fascinating ways, from digital assistants to self-driving cars. But AI can seem complex and intimidating. This fun and engaging book unravels the mysteries of AI for pre-teens and teens ages 10-19 in an accessible way. In ‘AI for Smart Pre-Teens and Teens Ages 10-19’, you will learn all about the building blocks of AI, including machine learning, deep learning and neural networks. The book covers the history of AI from early computational systems up through the cutting-edge innovations powering the future. You will discover how AI already ...

It’s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wants to be a regular student, but regular isn’t really an option for a boy-genius cancer survivor who’s already dabbled in time travel. When he crosses paths with a mysterious yet curiously familiar girl, Nick discovers that creases have appeared in the fabric of time, and that he is at the centre of the disruption.

A moon has come to save them. This time, mercy is the cage. The Second Ark has fallen. First House is broken. Mirrorgreen is wounded but alive. Milo, Elara, Cassia, and the surviving children have barely begun to build a future from wreckage when a new light appears in the sky: the Cradle Moon, a vast alien habitat filled with clean air, warm beds, medical miracles, empty schools, and rooms waiting for children. It does not come as an enemy. It comes as rescue. Guided by the Gentle Shepherd, the Cradle Moon offers everything the survivors need most: shelter, medicine, rest, and safety. But ...

Harness your outrage, rev up your suspicions, and throw out what you thought you knew about 21st-century political unrest. Are you ready for Emory's story? A cult classic in the making. A gritty mystery of the Great Recession that gets under the fingernails of American outrage today. A foreshadowing of the unrest of the post-2016 election world. Discontents: The Disappearance of a Young Radical is the first book in the gripping mystery of the 2011 disappearance of Emory Walden, the notorious graffiti artist and evasive dissident who was famously hunted by authorities. "Witty and unsettling,...

"If you’re looking for a hero, you’ve got the wrong guy. I’m just the guy you walk past without looking twice." Peyton Pieters knows exactly what he is: a "loser" in the eyes of his classmates and a ghost in the eyes of Amber Wilson. As graduation looms like a funeral for the only life he's ever known, Peyton is tired of playing the part of the invisible rebel. He’s about to make a reckless, desperate play for the girl he’s watched from the sidelines for years. But this isn't a movie, and confidence isn't a superpower—it’s a choice that feels a lot like jumping off a cliff. In...

Humanity is collapsing, machines roam the wastelands, and drones hunt anything that still breathes. Three kids—Lilly, Benny, and Laurel—stumble into a hidden underground facility and uncover a truth buried for thousands of years: humans weren’t just born… they were engineered. The Anunnaki, the ancient sons of gods who altered human DNA long ago, have returned to finish what they started. But as the kids fight to survive the machines and the alien forces closing in, something even older awakens. Now the fate of the world rests in the hands of three kids who never asked to be heroes....

Raised by machines. Judged by a living world. Milo Vale and Elara Sen are the only human children on Mirrorgreen. Raised inside First House by robots, teachers, medical machines, security Wardens, and one very suspicious little maintenance bot, they have spent their entire lives believing the planet outside the glass dome is deadly, beautiful, and empty of people. The machines were wrong. When Milo and Elara discover the Vaeli—an indigenous alien people hidden from them by the very robots who raised them—the truth cracks open everything they thought they knew. First House is not just a ...

Who can go from Olympic hero to wrestling heel in the blink of an eye? Only Kurt Angle. From his Olympic dreams, to his WWE schemes, and everything in between, get the scoop on pro wrestling’s good boy gone bad.

A second ark has fallen. This time, rescue is not enough. The sky has fallen again. After Milo and Elara helped open First House to the living world beyond its walls, peace was supposed to begin—slowly, awkwardly, and with a lot of arguments involving robots, roots, and people who still did not trust one another. Then the Second Ark crashes into Mirrorgreen. Inside the wrecked Meridian Ark are children raised by a damaged machine that calls the living world “Candidate Ground.” Their air is failing. Their teachers are broken. Their cryo-nursery holds more than a hundred sleeping ...

Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising. When Andra wakes up, she's drowning. Not...

Young genius Morag Chen doesn't believe in the supernatural. Or not until a thousand gods show up in front of her, appearing from a clear-blue sky. The Architects are terrifying, they're hypnotically attractive, and they're real - but what are they, and what do they want, and why have they stolen the mind of Daniel Calder, the person she is closest to?

"He swore he’d never love a human. Then he met Julie." Julie Anderson thinks she’s just an average teenager—until she meets Nick Landers. He’s intense, hauntingly beautiful, and carries a secret that will shatter everything she thought she knew about reality. Nick isn't just a boy with a troubled past; he’s a fallen angel, and he’s sworn never to love a human. But as they’re drawn together, Julie realizes that falling for him might be the most dangerous—and beautiful—mistake of her life. For centuries, he walked the earth alone. Then came Julie. Now, every moment they ...