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About Greg Howard
Greg Howard was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry where his love of stories blossomed at a young age. Originally set on becoming a songwriter, Greg followed that dream to Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent years producing the music of others before eventually returning to his childhood passion of writing stories. Greg writes about LGBTQ characters and issues as his focus is writing the kind of books he wishes he’d had access to as a gay kid growing up in the South. He currently resides in Nashville with his three rescued fur babies--Molly, Toby, and Riley.
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Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective, Frank, to go over his witness statement time and time again.
Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn't realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever.
Twelve-year-old Mikey Pruitt--president, founder, and CEO of Anything, Inc.--has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Inspired by his grandfather Pap Pruitt, who successfully ran all sorts of businesses from a car wash to a roadside peanut stand, Mikey is still looking for his million-dollar idea. Unfortunately, most of his ideas so far have failed. A baby tornado ran off with his general store, and the kids in his neighborhood never did come back for their second croquet lesson. But Mikey is determined to keep at it.
It isn't until kid drag queen Coco Caliente, Mistress of Madness and Mayhem (aka eighth grader Julian Vasquez) walks into his office (aka his family's storage/laundry room) looking for an agent that Mikey thinks he's finally found his million-dollar idea, and the Anything Talent and Pizzazz Agency is born!
Soon, Mikey has a whole roster of kid clients looking to hit it big or at least win the middle school talent show's hundred-dollar prize. As newly out Mikey prepares Julian for the gig of a lifetime, he realizes there's no rulebook for being gay--and if Julian can be openly gay at school, maybe Mikey can, too, and tell his crush, dreamy Colton Sanford, how he feels.
Full of laughs, sass, and hijinks, this hilarious, heartfelt story shows that with a little effort and a lot of love, anything is possible.
Beckett Gaines, a gay teen living in South Carolina, has his world turned upside-down by a jock in this laugh-out-loud novel that’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets The Parent Trap.
Beck:
The Golden Girls-loving, out-and-proud choir nerd growing up in the “ass-crack of the Bible belt.”
Jax:
The Golden Boy, star quarterback with a slick veneer facing uncomfortable truths about himself and his past.
When Beck’s emotionally fragile dad starts dating the recently single (and supposedly lesbian) mom of former bully Jaxon Parker, Beck is not having it. Jax isn’t happy about the situation either, holding out hope that his moms will reunite and restore the only stable home he’s ever known. Putting aside past differences, the boys plot to derail the budding romance between their parents at their conservative hometown’s first-ever Rainbow Prom. Hearts will be broken, new romance will bloom, but nothing will go down the way Beck and Jax have planned.
In his hilarious and provocative debut, Greg Howard examines the challenges of growing up different in a small southern town through the lens of colorful and unforgettable characters who stay with you long after the last drop of sweet tea.
A lonely twelve-year-old boy spends his days “stuck” at the deserted Hollow Pines Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina with no recollection of his name, how long he’s been there, and no idea how to leave. Things never change much for the lost souls at Hollow Pines and time is strange when you’re dead. But when visitors from the living world arrive for the first time in a long while, the boy feels a spark of hope. These visitors are around his age, and they seem to understand more than others that the plantation is not just spooky or eerie, it’s a sad place where the unspeakable happened again and again. And if these kids could understand the truth about Hollow Pines, maybe they could help him uncover the dark secrets of his past and help him find a way to finally move on. But Hollow Pines doesn’t like visitors. And with a malevolent spirit lurking in the shadows and painful memories buried deep, and for good reason, the boy wonders if he’ll ever find his way home or be stuck at Hollow Pines forever.
nos hacen reflexionar. Y también hay historias que nos
cambian la vida; El bosque de los susurros es una de
ellas.
Riley tiene once años y cree en los Susurros: hadas
mágicas que te conceden deseos si les rindes tributo. Y
Riley tiene muchos deseos: desea que los abusones de
la escuela dejen de molestarlo; desea agradarle a Dylan,
el chico de octavo curso que le gusta, y también desea
dejar de mojar la cama. Pero sobre todo, Riley desea
que su madre regrese a casa. Desapareció hace unos
meses, y él está decidido a resolver el caso. Incluso se
reúne con Frank, un detective, para repasar su
declaración de testigo una y otra vez.
Frustrado por la falta de avances en la investigación,
Riley decide encargarse él mismo del asunto. Así que se
va de acampada con su amigo Gary para encontrar a los
Susurros y pedirles que traigan a su madre de vuelta a
casa. Lo que Riley no imagina es que ese viaje cambiará
su mente y sus creencias para siempre.
Buchstabier mir Liebe …
Als Riley klein war, erzählte ihm seine Mutter die Geschichte von den Flüsterern: kleinen Wesen, die im Wald leben und gegen einen Tribut Wünsche erfüllen. Inzwischen ist Riley fast elf und hat einen so dringenden und sehnlichen Wunsch, dass er jede erdenkliche Hilfe annehmen würde. Er will seine Mutter zurückhaben, die seit vier Monaten verschwunden ist. Wo sie ist und was mit ihr geschah, das weiß keiner. Auch die Polizei nicht. Also macht Riley sich selbst auf den Weg. Nichts ist ihm wichtiger, und er ist bereit, jedes Opfer zu bringen, wenn er sie nur finden könnte. Vielleicht wissen die Flüsterer, was geschehen ist? Eine abenteuerliche Suche beginnt, an dessen Ende Rileys Welt eine andere ist.