Joint Review: Fracture by Megan Miranda
Author: Megan Miranda
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Walker & Co/Bloomsbury PLC
Publication date: January 2012
Hardcover: 264 pages
Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped [...]
Author: Ali Shaw
Genre: Officially? Literary Fiction. But this is a Fantasy novel if I’ve ever seen one.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication date: January 1 2012
Hardcover: 304 pages
When Elsa’s father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape — from [...]
Title: The Game (previously published as Invitation to The Game)
Author: Monica Hughes
Genre: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: October 2010 (originally published February 1991)
Paperback: 183 pages
It’s the future, and most jobs are done by machines. Now that [...]
Joint Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Author: Marissa Meyer
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: January 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 387 pages
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. [...]
Author: Kelly Meding
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Superheroes
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: October 25 2011
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Kelly Meding’s war-ravaged Los Angeles is ground zero for the ultimate Meta human showdown in this sexy, action-packed new series.
Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance” West was a skilled telepath [...]
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Egmont USA
Publication date: December 27th 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Every other day, Kali D’Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies. She’s human.
And then [...]
Title: Dark Inside
Author: Jeyn Roberts
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Apocalypse, Young Adult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s (US) / Macmillan Children’s (UK)
Publication Date: November 2011 (US) / September 2011 (UK)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Since mankind began, civilizations have always fallen: the Romans, the Greeks, [...]
Title: Legend
Author: Marie Lu
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile (US) / Puffin (UK)
Publication Date: November 2011 (US) / February 2012 (UK)
Hardcover: 305 pages
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation [...]
Title: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Author: Reif Larsen
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Penguin Press HC
Publication date: May 7th 2009
Hardcover: 375 pages
When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won [...]
Author: Jón Kalman Stefánsson (translated by Philip Roughton)
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: September 2011 (first edition: 2010)
Paperback: 240 pages
In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A [...]
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