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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. [...]
Title: The Uninvited Guests
Author: Sadie Jones
Genre: Historical, Paranormal
Publisher: Chatto & Windus / Harper
Publication date: May 1st 2012
Hardcover: 272 pages
One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for [...]
Yay! This is very cool: our first post for Kirkus is up and running!
It’s a review of Railsea the new YA novel by award-winning author China Miéville:
A snippet from the review:
When invited to go on a life-changing adventure, Sham Yes ap Soorap, the main [...]
After a few disappointing reads in the past few weeks, I was in need of some well-deserved comfort reading and some laid-back review-writing. So, I turned to the always reliable Diana Wynne Jones.
Title: Eight Days of Luke
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Norse Mythology
Publisher: Harper [...]
Title: Wheel of the Infinite
Author: Martha Wells
Genre: Fantasy, PoC
Publisher: Eos (but the author recently released the ebooks)
Publication date: First published, 2000. Ebook was made available in 2011
Paperback: 355 pages
Author: Barry Lyga
Genre: Horror, Mystery/Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: April 2012
Hardcover: 359 Pages
What if the world’s worst serial killer…was your dad?
Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.
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Author: Michael Grant
Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: April 2012
Hardcover: 509 Pages
Despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new existence they’ve [...]
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House
Publication date: March 27 2012
Hardcover: 336 pages
This is historical fantasy at its best. Sixteen-year-old Hild has always been a favorite of her uncle, king of the Shylfings. So when she protects her cousin the [...]
Author: Sherwood Smith
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: YA Angst (original publisher) / new ebook edition from Book View Cafe
Publication Date: March 2008
Hardcover: 300 pages
Rhis, princess of a small kingdom, is invited along with all the other princesses in her [...]
Author: Patricia Briggs
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: March 2012
Hardcover: 293 pages
They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son-and enforcer-of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is [...]
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