Author: Neesha Meminger
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Ignite Books (self-published)
Publication date: March 2012
Paperback: 308 pages
Pammi has a Secret–she is an Able. At night, she travels through time to an ancient city called Zanum. She’s been visiting Zanum [...]
Author: Zetta Elliott
Genre: Fantasy (Contemporary/Urban Fantasy), Young Adult
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Publication date: February 2012
Paperback: 132 pages
When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, an elderly white woman. [...]
Joint Review: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
Author: Robin LaFevers
Genre: Historical, Paranormal, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 549 pages
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the [...]
Title: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Author: Nancy Kress
Genre: Pre/Post/Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Publication Date: April 2012
Paperback: 192 Pages
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors — the last of humanity — are [...]
Author: Tanita S. Davis
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, LGBT, PoC
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
Publication date: May 8 2012
Hardcover: 240 pages
Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin Nicholas are lucky. Ysabel’s jewelry designs have already caught the eyes of the art world and [...]
Title: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Author: Written by Christopher Healy, Illustrated by Tod Harris
Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Middle Grade
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 293 Pages (US)
nter a world where everything, even our classic fairy tales, is not at [...]
Title: Bitterblue
Author: Kristin Cashore
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Dial (US) / Gollancz (UK)
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 547 Pages
Eight years after Graceling, Bitterblue is now queen of Monsea. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with [...]
Author: Michelle Sagara
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: DAW
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 256 Pages
It began in the graveyard…
Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been coming to the graveyard at night. During the day she [...]
Author: Nalo Hopinkson
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date: April 17th 2012
Hardcover: 256 pages
Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in—at home she’s the perfect daughter, at school she’s provocatively sassy, and thanks to her mixed heritage, she [...]
Author: Zoraida Córdova
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 384 Pages
For Tristan Hart, everything changes with one crashing wave.
He was gone for three days. Sucked out to sea in a tidal wave and spit back [...]
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