Smoke Mountain
Synopsis: The Last Great Wilderness . . .There is a place where bears can live in peace, where there is sea-ice all year, where the forests are full of prey, where flat-faces never go. Polar bears Kallik and Taqqiq, black bear Lusa, grizzly Toklo, and the shape-shifting Ujurak believe that this fabled bear paradise must […]
Secret Subway
VOYA: The streets of New York City in 1860 are overcrowded to capacity. It takes hours to get to work just down the block and forever to return home. Something needs to be done to change the situation. Several attempts are made to change the situation, but none solve the problem. Alfred Beach, owner of […]
The Time Book
From Booklist: This diverting picture book addresses all manner of head-scratching quandaries kids will likely have about the concept of time: Why is it measured in such seemingly random units? When did keeping precise time become so important? And wait, what is time, anyway? It?s a pretty heady subject, all right, but Jenkins and Holland […]
The Spook's Tale
Synopsis: The Last Apprentice series follows the terrifying adventures of the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward. But Tom's is only one story. There are others. . . . The Spook himself was once an apprentice. How did he begin his training? And what of Alice, the young witch who is Tom's closest ally? How did she […]
The Last Olympian
Synopsis: All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on […]
Miles to Go
Publishers Weekly: Cyrus divides her candid if somewhat circuitous autobiography into three sections or "miles." Incorporating details about her time in and out of the spotlight, the teen discusses, with considerable dramatic flair, both the high notes (landing the title role on Hannah Montana, her close family bonds, her much ballyhooed 16th-birthday celebration at Disneyland) […]
Party Pooper
Bloodhound
School Library Journal: Gr 7 Up: Fans of Pierce's medieval fantasy police-procedural series will love this book as much as Terrier (Random, 2006). Beka, 17, is serving her first year as a Dog (police officer) in the Provost's Guard. She and her mentor and old partner, Goodwin, are sent from Corus to Port Caynn to […]
Wicked Lovely
The Washington Post – Annette Curtis Klause: Melissa Marr adds elegantly to the sub-genre of Urban Faery with this enticing, well-researched fantasy for teens ? The romantic scenes are delicious. The fantasy of being pursued by two young men is alluring in itself, but when one is a pierced and tattooed sexy outsider and the […]
Ink Exchange
Publishers Weekly: Returning to the faery world of Wicked Lovely, Marr serves up another highly addictive read, this time centering on Leslie, a mortal girl who made a cameo appearance in that earlier work as a friend of its protagonist, Aislinn. Broken by terrible trauma, Leslie seeks to anchor her mind from slipping into oblivion. […]