Aaron Starmer

Brewster Gaines just wanted to make a video and get a million views - he didn't count on needing friends to get there. Brewster Gaines loves everything about making videos. The planning, the filming, the editing, and especially the feeling of watching his YouTube views tick up and up. So what if he doesn’t have friends to film with or parents who are home every night for dinner? He’s got a phone and a tripod and a lofty goal... A million views. But when he enlists the acting chops of charismatic new kid Carly for a ten-second video, he gets more than he bargained for. Her intimidating friend Rosa soon steps in with funding to produce an epic fantasy trailer, and before long, their tiny team is adding cast and crew. What started as a simple shoot mutates into a full-fledged movie production, complete with method-acting cosplayers, special effects, and a monster made out of a go-kart. That’s when Brewster realizes that getting to a million views may be harder than he ever imagined . . .

UNA NOVELA SOBRE CRECER… Y EXPLOTAR. El último año de instituto de Mara Carlyle se desarrolla de la forma esperada hasta que un día: ¡bum!, uno de sus compañeros explota en mitad de la clase. Ése será el primer caso, pero no el último, de una alocada serie de combustiones espontáneas que pondrá en jaque la vida de Mara y el orden normal de las cosas. A partir de entonces, Mara hará lo posible por graduarse de una sola pieza. Y es que su último año está siendo verdaderamente explosivo: se ve envuelta en una sorpresiva historia de amor, cuarentenas, setas alucinógenas, blogueros, camiones de helado, agentes secretos y las expresiones más groseras que hayas oído decir nunca a la presidenta de una nación. Starmer reescribe un nuevo manual de convivencia con Espontánea. Pero bajo lo extravagante de su propuesta subyace un ejemplo ridículamente divertido, honesto y conmovedor de las absurdas y crudas verdades de ser un adolescente en el siglo XXI... y de la tristeza de decir adiós. • Recomendada por John Green, autor superventas de Bajo la misma estrella: «La novela más inteligente y divertida sobre la combustión espontánea que leerás jamás.» • «Una absorbente lectura bañada en risas, lágrimas y sangre.» Kirkus Reviews • «Una historia cruenta y absolutamente original acerca de la identidad, la amistad, el amor, el sexo y la muerte.» School Library Journal • «Increíblemente macabra e intensa, la historia de Mara apela directamente a los sentimientos más extremos de humor y horror de los lectores.» The Horn Book • Una novela que desborda originalidad y talento, y que recrea a la perfección el verdadero pensamiento adolescente. A partir de la metáfora de la combustión espontánea, Starmer desarrolla con profundidad, humor y extremismo, las dificultades del paso a la edad adulta y cómo sobrevivir a ella (sin explotar, claro). • Elegida como una de las mejores novelas de 2016 por la revista TIME, y seleccionada en el panel de la BEA YA Buzz book 2016 y por la Asociación de Bibliotecarios de Estados Unidos. • Se han vendido los derechos cinematográficos para llevarla a la gran pantalla.

For fans of One of Us Is Lying, a tense, psychological thriller for the internet age about the destructive combination of self-important goals and self-serving plans. No one is going to miss Cole Weston. A loner without friends or family and an unhealthy obsession with the darker corners of the internet, Cole had become increasingly violent toward his ex-girlfriend, and threated to do so much worse. So it was only logical–only right, really–that his former friends took it upon themselves to rid the world of Cole Weston. Now, Logan, Meeka, Holly, and Grayson are forever bound by Cole’s body, buried under the cold Vermont earth. The failsafe should any one of them consider betrayal: their old phones, buried with Cole, disconnected from service, and each wiped clean except for one file–their video confession. As expected, no one misses Cole. Or even realizes he’s gone. But a few days later, the meme appears. It’s a stupid meme, old school and not even funny. But every terrible joke has one thing in common, the same photo–a screenshot from the confession video still entombed six feet under with Cole.

From the author of Spontaneous comes a '90s mixtape of a young adult novel that delivers a summer romance with an unearthly twist. It was just one swim… How could they know it would never end? It's the summer of 1994 and Trevor can barely wrap his mind around the fact that he and his friends have graduated high school. The future is a murky thing, filled with a college experience he feels neutral about at best, endless mixtape relistens, and the growing realization that his crush on the enigmatic Sarah isn't going anywhere. That is, until Sarah approaches him with a mission: they're going to swim in all the pools in the neighborhood. Soon, their quest leads to them sneaking into backyard pools every night and continuing to get closer. But not close enough for Trevor, who yearns for Sarah despite her college boyfriend, despite her "not yet"s, despite the way she keeps pulling away the moment things feel real. So when they learn about a natural pool hidden deep in the woods, it starts off as just another spot to check off their summer bucket list. But once they get there, they soon realize the natural pool has a curious hold on them, and something very strange is happening…

�Não há outro lugar. Não há mais ninguém. Martin, isso aqui é o mundo inteiro�. Martin Maple não é um garoto comum. Ele foi criado pelo pai em uma ilha e só tem contato com outras pessoas quando turistas visitam o local. Ele e o pai montam, desmontam e remontam uma máquina que, na verdade, Martin nunca viu funcionar. Quando o pai resolve sair da ilha em busca da peça final e nunca mais retorna, o garoto percebe que os turistas também nunca mais apareceram e que ele está sozinho no mundo. Mas será essa a realidade? O que você faria se de repente todos os adultos tivessem desaparecido?

A darkly funny and spectacularly original exploration of friendship, goodbyes—and spontaneous combustion. Mara Carlyle’s senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until—wa-bam!—fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t be the last teenager to blow up without warning or explanation. As the seniors continue to pop like balloons and the national eye turns to Mara’s suburban New Jersey hometown, the FBI rolls in and the search for a reason is on. Whip-smart and blunt, Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It's an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice cream trucks, “Snooze Button™,” Bon Jovi, and the filthiest language you’ve ever heard from the President of the United States. Aaron Starmer rewrites the rulebook with Spontaneous. But beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the 21st century . . . and the heartache of saying goodbye.

"A laugh-out-loud tour de force." --Kirkus, starred review Ever wish you had a way to magically solve all of your problems? The kids at Hopewell Elementary School might have exactly what you're searching for--just walk down the hall and stop at Locker 37. Carson Cooper realizes that he has a very inconveniently located stain on his pants. That is NOT the way to start things off on the first day of school. Fortunately, Carson finds a letter written by last year's fourth graders stuck to the bottom of his desk with some watermelon bubble gum. The note explains the existence of Locker 37, which will provide a solution to any problem! And when Carson sneaks off to the locker it does, indeed, provide a solution--an eraser! But the problem is that the eraser works a little too well, erasing anything it's rubbed against three times. ANYTHING.

Like the other children who have journeyed to the village of Xibalba, Martin Maple faces an awful truth. He was forgotten. When everyone else in the world disappeared one afternoon, these children were the only ones left behind. There's Darla, who drives a monster truck; Felix, who used string and wood to rebuild the internet; Lane, who crafts elaborate contraptions for live entertainment; and nearly forty others, each equally brilliant and peculiar. Inspired by the prophecies of a mysterious boy who talks to animals, Martin believes he can reunite them all with their loved ones. But believing and knowing are two different things, as he soon discovers with the push of a button, the flip of a switch, the turn of a dial...A whimsical apocalyptic fable that carries readers to a future world without adults, a journey filled with dark humor that every reader will want to take.

"To sell a book, you need a description on the back. So here's mine: My name is Fiona Loomis. I was born on August 11, 1977. I am recording this message on the morning of October 13, 1989. Today I am thirteen years old. Not a day older. Not a day younger." Fiona Loomis is Alice, back from Wonderland. She is Lucy, returned from Narnia. She is Coraline, home from the Other World. She is the girl we read about in storybooks, but here's the difference: She is real. Twelve-year-old Alistair Cleary is her neighbor in a town where everyone knows each other. One afternoon, Fiona shows up at Alistair's doorstep with a strange proposition. She wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into a clearly troubled mind. For Fiona tells Alistair a secret. In her basement there's a gateway and it leads to the magical world of Aquavania, the place where stories are born. In Aquavania, there's a creature called the Riverman and he's stealing the souls of children. Fiona's soul could be next. Alistair has a choice. He can believe her, or he can believe something else...something even more terrifying.

The extraordinary conclusion to the critically acclaimed Riverman trilogy. Keri Cleary is worried about her brother, Alistair. As the one witness to a shooting, he has been shocked into near silence. But Keri--and everyone else--needs to know the answers to three questions: Who shot Kyle Dwyer? Where is Charlie Dwyer? What does this all have to do with the disappearance of Fiona Loomis? Perhaps the answers lie in stories. As Alistair makes strange confessions to his sister, Keri becomes inspired. She tells stories, tales that may reveal hidden truths, fiction that may cause real things to happen. In the concluding volume of the Riverman Trilogy, readers are asked to consider the source of inspiration, the borders of reality, and the power of storytelling.