Saturday, June 4, 2011 “Nevermore” by Kelly Creagh “At once an homage to one of America’s greatest writers and a page-turning psychological mystery that is equal parts horror, humor, and romance, NEVERMORE is the story of Varen — a Poe-fan and goth — and Isobel — a cheerleader and unlikely heroine. When a Lit. project […]
Saturday, June 4, 2011 “Aphrodite’s Blessings; Love Stories From the Greek Myths” by Clemence McLaren “If I were racing against someone as handsome as Milanion,” Filomena said, “I’d let him win… by just a little.” She gestured with thumb and index finger. Atalanta, princess, has been brought up to be an athlete. When her father […]
Saturday, May 21, 2011 “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen “Hannah is tired of hearing about the Nazis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. A girl named Rivka […]
Thursday, April 14, 2011 “The Vespertine” by Saundra Mitchell “It’s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset—visions that offer glimpses of the […]
Monday, May 16, 2011 “Beautiful Darkness” (Caster Chronicles, #2) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl “Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in […]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl “Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of […]
Saturday, April 16, 2011 “Clockwork Angel” by Cassandra Clare (Infernal Devices, #1) Tessa Gray’s parents are dead. She lives with her Aunt in New York. Her brother, Nathaniel, went away a while ago to London for work. Her aunt has died and she’s going to travel across the seas to her brother so they can […]
Friday, April 8, 2011 “Deadly” by Julie Chibbaro “A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York. Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist? Every week more people fall ill, and despite thorough investigation, there’s no cause in sight. It’s not until sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job as an assistant […]
Monday, March 21, 2011 “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne “If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (The this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist […]
Saturday, March 12, 2011 “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys Release: March 22nd “Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from […]