Title: The Dark City Author: Catherine Fisher Genre: Young Adult/Middle Grade, Science Fiction-Fantasy Publisher: Red Fox (original) / Dial (reprint) Publication Date: August 1998 / May 2011 Hardcover: 384 Pages Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation,…
Title: Well Wished Author: Franny Billingsley Genre: Fantasy / Middle Grade Publisher: Atheneum; Reprint edition Publication date: February 1, 2000 Paperback 176 pages One wish for a lifetime… In the village of Bishop Mayne there is a magical Wishing…
Title: Blood Magic Author: Tessa Gratton Genre: Southern Gothic / YA Publisher: Random House Children (US)/ Doubleday Children’s (UK) Publication date: 24 May 2011 (US)/ 7 July 2011 (UK) Hardcover/Paperback 416 pages The murder of her parents has left…
Title: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Author: Catherynne M Valente; Illustrations by Ana Juan Genre: Fantasy / YA Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Publication date: May 10th 2011 Hardcover: 256 pages Twelve-year-old September…
Title: Juniper Berry Author: M.P. Kozlowski, Illustrations by Erwin Madrid Genre: Young Adult/Middle Grade, Horror, Fantasy Publisher: Walden Pond Press (HarperCollins) Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 240 Pages Juniper Berry’s parents are the most beloved actor and actress in…
Hello everyone, and welcome to our stop on the Juniper Berry official blog tour! Today we are thrilled to have debut author M.P. Kozlowsky over to celebrate the release of his YA/MG novel – a tale of terror and…
Hello everybody! Today we are going to be talking about – and celebrating – Diversity in YA. Diversity in YA Fiction is a website and book tour founded by two young adult authors, Malinda Lo (author of Ash and…
Title: Mare’s War Author: Tanita S. Davis Genre: Historical/Contemporary YA Publisher: Knopf Books Publication date: June 2009 (reprint edition 2011) Paperback: 352 pages Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once…
Title: Toads and Diamonds Author: Heather Tomlinson Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: March 2010 Hardcover: 288 Pages Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family’s…
Hello everybody and welcome to our stop on the Shift blog tour! To celebrate the release of the second book in the Shade trilogy – about a world where only the young can see ghosts – we are super…
Title: The Swan Maiden Author: Heather Tomlinson Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: August 2007 Hardcover: 304 Pages In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can…
Title: Hold Me Closer, Necromancer Author: Lish McBride Genre: Urban Fantasy / YA Publisher: Henry Holt and Co Publication date: October 2010 Hardback: 352 pages Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job…
Title: Abandon Author: Meg Cabot Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Retellings, Paranormal Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 320 Pages She didn’t fall into his world. She was taken. Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we…
GayYA.org is a forum recently created to celebrate everything LGBT in YA. Throughout April, many bloggers and authors have written awesome guest posts. This review is our contribution to this worthy cause. Title: Vintage – A Ghost Story Author:…
Title: Rotters Author: Daniel Kraus Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary Publisher: Delacorte Press Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 464 Pages Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It’s true that Leonardo da Vinci did it,…
Title: By These Ten Bones Author: Clare B. Dunkle Genre: Fantasy YA Publisher: Square Fish Publication date: February 2011, reprint edition. Paperback: 256 pages A mysterious young man has come to a small Highland town. His talent for wood…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild…
Title: Eona Author: Alison Goodman Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Viking Juvenile Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 637 Pages Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko…
Hello everybody! Back in 2009, we read, loved and reviewed Give Up The Ghost by Megan Crewe. The book features a character-driven story about a girl who can communicate with ghosts better than with living people. It is a…
Title: Darkness Becomes Her Author: Kelly Keaton Genre: Fantasy / YA Publisher:Simon Pulse Publication date: February 22, 2011 (US) / June 2011 (UK) Hardcover/Paperback: 288 pages Ari can’t help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver…
Title: The Emerald Atlas Author: John Stephens Genre: Young Adult (upper Middle Grade), Fantasy Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (US)/Doubleday (UK) Publication Date: April 2011 (US & UK) Hardcover: 432 Pages (US & UK) Kate, Michael, and Emma…
Title: Rage Author: Jackie Morse Kessler Genre: Fantasy / YA Publisher: Harcourt Graphia Publication date: April 2011 Paperback: 228 pages Stand alone or series: Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Book 2 Missy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after…
Title: The Folk Keeper Author: Franny Billingsley Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Atheneum (US)/ Bloomsbury (UK) Publication Date First edition: 1999/ New edition: April 2011 Paperback: 176 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Corinna Stonewall is fifteen years old and…
Welcome everyone, to The Book Smugglers’ Nebula Readathon 2011! In honor of the annual Nebula Awards, we will be hosting an interwebs readathon, in which we will attempt to read all of the titles on the Best Novel and…
Title: Chime Author: Franny Billingsley Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Dial (US)/ Bloomsbury PLC (UK) Publication date: March (US) / April (UK) 2011 Hardcover: 361 pages Before Briony’s stepmother died, she made sure Briony blamed herself for all the family’s hardships.…