I’m a sucker for a good book trailer, and this one for Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon is very nicely done. I’m already excited to read the book once I get a hold of it, but this trailer moved the book up my to-read list.
And Cindy was having an awesome contest with prizes of [...]
Publisher’s Weekly has a great review about the early reviews for Catching Fire, the sequel for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
I know when I finished reading The Hunger Games, a little bit of me hated the person who introduced me to the books because she didn’t warn me it would end with me [...]
Poison Study
By Maria V. Snyder
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Awaiting execution for murder, Yelena is given the choice of dying tomorrow or a life
After committing murder, Yelena is given the choice of death by execution or a life of constant risk as the Commander’s food taster.
Yelena decides to choose the [...]
Sabriel
by Garth Nix
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In order to keep her safe from the random power of Free Magic and the Dead–zombie-like creatures that roam the kingdom–Sabriel’s father sends her to boarding school across the wall, where only a few even believe magic exists. But when her father’s [...]
Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson
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How much of your body can be replaced, fixed, and rebuilt before you are no longer human?
Jenna awakens to parents she doesn’t remember and a life she can’t recall. And the accident that put [...]
Aurelia
by Anne Osterlund
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Someone wants crown princess Aurelia dead. And it’s up to her childhood friend, Robert, to figure out who’s trying to kill her while trying not to fall in love with her.
As Aurelia learns of the attempts on her life, she realizes she must do whatever she [...]
Howl’s Moving Castle
By Diana Wynne Jones
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Sophie Hatter is an eldest daughter and therefore destined to be a failure. So when the Witch of the Waste comes into her hat shop and turns her into an old woman, Sophie isn’t particularly surprised. In fact, being old [...]
Mira, Mirror
By Mette Ivie Harrison
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Mira desperately wants a sister, someone to love and trust. When her parents sell her to a witch, Mira thinks she has finally found a sister in her fellow apprentice, but her new sister instead uses Mira’s trust to lock her [...]
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By Mary Hoffman
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Talia, a world similar to sixteenth century Earth, where science is what we would call magic, exists in parallel to our own. All that connects the two are travelers known as Stravaganzas, only distinguishable by their lack [...]
Book of a Thousand Days
By Shannon Hale
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Dashti trained to be a lady’s maid, learning her letters and manners, and wielding generations of healing songs to ease a bad temper or help a sore muscle. What she found instead was a scared young lady who was to be [...]