Author: Jackie Morse Kessler
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Graphia
Publication date: March 20 2012
Paperback: 272 pages
Fifteen-year-old Billy Ballard is the kid that everyone picks on, from the school bullies to the teachers. But things change drastically when Death tells Billy he must [...]
Author: Lissa Price
Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: March 2012
Hardcover: 368 Pages
HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER
Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and [...]
Title: Emperor Mollusk vs. The Sinister Brain
Author: A. Lee Martinez
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: March 2012
Hardcover: 320 pages
Emperor Mollusk.
Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth.
Not bad for a guy without a spine.
But [...]
Author: E. C. Myers
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Pyr
Publication date: March 6 2012
Hardcover: 250 pages
Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The [...]
Author: Tobias S. Buckell
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: March 2012
Hardcover: 304 pages
Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately [...]
Author: Ellen Potter
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: February 28 2012
Hardcover: 192 pages
Hiding is Roo Fanshaw’s special skill. Living in a frighteningly unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment’s notice. When her parents [...]
Author: Ari Marmell
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Pyr
Publication date: February 14 2012
Hardcover: 240 pages
Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city’s aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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