Posted by Mary Lewis on February 24, 2010
What would you do if you found something deadly in your school locker and you suspected a friend of stashing it there?
Benjamin Mitchell thinks life really sucks when he nearly fails his history test. What’s more, he’s trying to get on the Midland Racers hockey team as a replacement goal tender. His buddies, Zach and Frasier are as different as night and day, and Ben feels like salt-water taffy, stretched thinner and thinner as the boys battle for his attention. And as if things couldn’t get any worse, Valerie has suddenly started acting like a girl. The pressure is on. But Ben has bigger problems and it looks like somebody is out to set him up. Can he find out before it’s too late?
Pam Ripling didn’t know what she was getting into when she decided she wanted to be published. A bookkeeper by trade and a mother, wife, and daughter most of the rest of the time, Pam dove headlong into electronic publishing when it became apparent that this, at last, was her ticket to stardom and notoriety. With a few romance novels already under her proverbial belt, LOCKER SHOCK! is her first venture into the Young Adult genre. Fueled by her two teenaged sons’ experiences in junior high, Pam has created several stories portraying life as a young teen in today’s uniquely challenging times. She hopes LOCKER SHOCK! is the first of many.
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Posted by Mary Lewis on February 22, 2010

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Betrayed by Sam Morton
It s an election year and Senator Ben Pitchfork Stevens from Texas made a campaign promise to stop illegal immigration. He virtually has. Problem is, people trying to cross the border keep disappearing. That s a dilemma for 15-year-old Austin Pierce whose father is a political consultant involved with the senator and whose best friend, Rico Alvarez, happens to be in the United States illegally. After Rico’s family voluntarily deports, Austin discovers that Rico s beautiful cousin Veronica helps people cross over illegally. He faces a decision: should he help his friends or help the FBI to stop the senator’s evil ways? Either path could lead to danger, even death.

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A graduate of The Citadel, Sam holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. He is author of Disavowed, a police thriller with five-star ratings on both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Sam has also written Betrayed—An Austin Pierce Novel, the first book in the Austin Files, a young adult spy series slated to debut in August 2009. He is co-author of four fiction anthologies and sole author of Ramblings, a collection of his own short stories and poems. Sam is a member of The Inkplots Writers Group, and is an active freelance writer for several regional and national magazines. He has received a number of awards for his writing. His past occupations include a 12 year-stint as a robbery/homicide detective for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department in Columbia, S.C., a ten-year career as a professional wrestler, and one long week as the blade changer on the potato cutting machine at the Frito Lay plant in Charlotte, N.C. He resides in Columbia, SC with his wife, Myra, and two children, Alexey and Nikki. Find out more about Sam by logging onto www.sammorton.com.
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