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Zodiac Cusp Kids
Series · 7 books · 2018-2022

Books in series

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#1

Something Wicked

2018

It's 1983. Angie, Jenny, and David are watching MTV, riding bikes, and looking forward to their summer vacation before they start junior high school. Lincoln, Nebraska is a pretty quiet place to grow up, and when the kids take off at 5:00 am to deliver newspapers on Jenny’s route, they aren’t expecting trouble. So, when a creature straight out of a horror movie appears, the kids are forced to draw on their wits, their strengths, and most of all their friendship to survive. Something Wicked is the first of seven stories drawn from Angie’s diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years - working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny's mom who dabbles in witchcraft, to uncover their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#2

Something Haunted

2018

The summer of 1983 is over. After weeks of healing from their first adventure and some specialized basic training with Mr. Rakow, Angie, Jenny, and David are feeling prepared for the horrors junior high will inevitably bring. The final weekend of vacation, a bizarre tornado tears through Lincoln, upending gravestones and depositing supernatural debris on the school grounds. The gang has their hands full with the demands of starting junior high on top of trying to figure out an otherworldly mystery, and their friendship begins to feel the strain. But the malevolent ghost haunting the school is ramping up its attacks on students, and the kids are going to have to get it together in time to save the school. Something Haunted is the second of seven stories drawn from Angie's diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years - working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny's mom, Lorraine, who dabbles in witchcraft, to uncover their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#3

Something Lost

2019

It's a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1985 when two girls from Whitehall, the neighborhood group home for troubled kids, approach Angie at school. Crystal's little sister, Desiree, has disappeared. Her foster parents and the police think she is just another runaway. Crystal doesn't believe it, and when she and her friend Barb learn there is a ghost involved, they know they are going to need the kind of help Angie, David, and Jenny have developed a reputation for. The Zodiac Cusp Kids have enlisted some extra help from Jen's twin Jon and a couple of very special German Shephard pups to uncover what has really happened to Desiree. What they find is darker and more complex than anyone imagined. Something Lost is the third of seven stories drawn from Angie's diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years; working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow and Jenny's mom, Lorraine, who dabbles in witchcraft, to realize their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#4

Something Found

2020

Just over a week has passed since Angie, David and Jenny said goodbye to Barb and Alesta, the German Shepherd pup. David and Jenny convince Jon and Angie to come to a dance at the neighborhood Rec Center and mysterious things begin to appear. Jenny’s prophecies guide them to a magical artifact that transports the Zodiac Cusp Kids away from the dance on a world-hopping rescue that opens their eyes to a terrifying new enemy, and to some powerful magical allies closer to home than they’d dreamed. Something Found is the fourth of seven stories drawn from Angie’s diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years – working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny’s mom, Lorraine, who dabbles in witchcraft, to realize their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#5

Something Twisted

2021

Two years have passed since Angie, David, and Jenny returned from their star-hopping adventure and learned the identity of the Guardian. Now sophomores in high school, the kids are trying to juggle saving their hometown while also having social lives, playing on sports teams, acting in plays, and studying healing magic outside of class. When those worlds begin to collide with dangerous magic, the kids have their hands full figuring out whom to trust. Then, David's mom gets dragged into the mess and the Guardian puts his relationship with the whole team on the line to discover the identity of the culprit. Plus, Great Dane-sized-spiders. Hold onto your hats, Something Twisted is going on! Something Twisted is the fifth of seven stories drawn from Angie's diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years—working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny's mom, Lorraine, who dabbles in witchcraft, to realize their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#6

Something Fatal

2021

It’s the summer of 1987. Angie’s summer intensive on the mysteries of Agatha Christie has her seeing clues everywhere she looks, and there are plenty of clues to be sorted through when one of the Witches in Lorrain’s coven is killed. Was it an accident that Shelly’s car crashed into Dead Man’s Run? Or something darker? And what has become of Shelly’s dog, Tati? Angie, David, and Jenny have their work cut out for them to get to the truth, but what they find only leads to more mysteries. Something Fatal is the sixth of seven stories drawn from Angie’s diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years – working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny’s mom, Lorraine, who leads a coven, to realize their power and battle the forces of darkness that menace their hometown.
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#7

Something Final

2022

The adventures of the Zodiac Cusp Kids are laid to rest in the raw, cold February of 1989. The Portal has been spilling out more goop and increasingly dangerous goons for the past two years, and it’s getting worse. On top of that, the kids are facing a mysterious and charismatic figure from David’s past who’s not sitting quite right with Jenny. In order to decode the symbols from her vision, there’s only one thing to do; a week-long cram session at the library. The things they discover lead them straight toward the fight of everyone’s lives. It’s going to take every trick they’ve learned and the combined powers of The Coven, The Guardian, and the Zodiac Cusp Kids to end this story. Something Final is the last of the stories drawn from Angie's diaries. Kept safely hidden for decades, they tell how the kids spent their teenage years—working with their mentor, Mr. Rakow, and Jenny's mom, Lorraine, who leads a coven, to come to the life-changing conclusion of their journey together.

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