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Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Publication date: January 10 2012
Hardcover: 224 pages
We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family. Deza is the smartest girl [...]
Author: Madeline Miller
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Greek Mythology, LGBT
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: September 5 2011
Hardcover: 368 pages
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted [...]
Title: Blood Red Road
Author: Moira Young
Genre: Adventure, Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (Simon & Schuster)
Publication Date: June 2011
Hardcover: 459 pages
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker [...]
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic)
Publication Date: August 2011
Hardcover: 384 pages
“The Luxe” meets the ancient world in the extraordinary story of Cleopatra’s daughter.
Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her [...]
Author: Leanne Hall
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Text
Publication date: August 2nd 2010
Paperback: 272 pages
A guy who howls. A girl on a mission to forget.
In the suburb of Shyness, where the sun doesn’t rise and the border crackles with a strange energy, [...]
Title: Revolver
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Genre: Thriller, Historical, Young Adult
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books / Square Fish
Publication date: July 16th 2009 / September 27, 2011
Paperback: 224 pages
1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for [...]
Author: Karen Lord
Genre: Fantasy, Fable
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Publication date: July 6th 2010
Paperback: 200 pages
Karen Lord’s debut novel is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit. Paama’s husband is a fool and a [...]
Author: N. K. Jemisin
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Orbit
Publication date: November 3rd 2010
Paperback: 411 pages
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man [...]
Author: Sara Zarr
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publication Date: October 18th 2011
Hardcover: 341 pages
Jill MacSweeney just wants everything to go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends–everyone who [...]
Author: Lev A.C. Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Steampunk, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Tor
Publication date: September 2011
Hardcover: 416 pages
Inspired by two of the most beloved works by literary masters, All Men of Genius takes place in an alternate Steampunk Victorian London, where science makes the [...]
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