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Dark, twisted, unique, intense, amazing: these are the words that readers are using to describe SCYTHE by Neal Shusterman. Honestly, everything Shusterman writes is just so original and fascinating, he's an auto-buy author for us. Kit read SCYTHE and loved it, and immediately gave it to me. So excited for book two! If you're looking for something to give the reader in your family, look no further ! Read it now before THUNDERHEAD comes out in January. Here's what the booktube community has to say about SCYTHE. Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 - 9 Series: Arc of a Scythe (Book 1) Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (November 22, 2016) Goodreads | Amazon Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity ha...

STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor  Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (March 28, 2017) Goodreads |  Amazon  |  B&N  |  Indiebound A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around— and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the ...

Review by Jackie THIEF OF LIES Library Jumpers #1 File Size: 1567 KB Print Length: 400 pages Publisher: Entangled: Teen (January 5, 2016) Publication Date: January 5, 2016 Sold by: Macmillan Goodreads | Amazon  Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys thankiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the BostonAthenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of worldlibraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks herand her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Parislibrary, where Arik and his Sentinels-magical knights charged withprotecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gatewaybooks-rescue them from a demonic hound. Jumping into some of theworld's most beautiful libraries would be a dream come true for Gia, ifshe weren't busy resisting her heart or dodging an exiled wizard seeking revenge on both the Mystik and human worlds. Add a French flirtobsessed with Arik and a fling with a y...

Review by Elisa   RIDERS by Veronica Rossi Publisher: Tor Teen (February 16, 2016) Publication Date: February 16, 2016 Sold by: Macmillan  Goodreads   | Amazon For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does. Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse. Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence. They fail. Now--bound, bloodied, and drugged--Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any ch...

Review by Andye LADY MIDNIGHT The Dark Artifices book #1 by Cassandra Clare Hardcover: 720 pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books; 1 edition (March 8, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices , a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel. It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directio...

Swoonings by Jackie SWEET TEMPTATION by WENDY HIGGINS Series: Sweet Evil (Book 4) Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: HarperTeen (September 8, 2015) Goodreads | Amazon When bad-boy drummer Kaidan Rowe encounters good girl Anna Whitt, the girl chosen to vanquish the demons from earth, he can't stop thinking about her. The Nephilim son of the Duke of Lust, Kaidan tries to help Anna embrace a life of sin, but she gradually helps him see that he's meant to do more with his life. Their relationship is as tortured as it is passionate, for Nephilim are forbidden to fall in love. But as hard as they may try to obey, Kai can't seem to stay away from Anna, nor Anna from Kai. Full of chemistry and high-stakes drama, this companion book is darker, hotter, and completely satisfying. Dear Kai, We’ve been through quite a bit these past few book. I have wanted to make out with you, stab you, hug you, make out with you some more. Stab you some more too. I know, I know. That’s a ...

by Andye & Becca HELLO? by Liza Wiemer Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary (November 10, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Tricia: A girl struggling to find her way after her beloved grandma's death. Emerson: A guy who lives his life to fulfill promises, real and hypothetical. Angie: A girl with secrets she can only express through poetry. Brenda: An actress and screenplay writer afraid to confront her past. Brian: A potter who sets aside his life for Tricia, to the detriment of both. Linked and transformed by one phone call, Hello? weaves together these five Wisconsin teens' stories into a compelling narrative of friendship and family, loss and love, heartbreak and healing, serendipity, and ultimately hope. Told from all five viewpoints: narration (Tricia), narration (Emerson), free verse poetry (Angie), screenplay format (Brenda), narration and drawings (Brian).   Andye: Hello? Becca: IS IT ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR???? ...

Review by Leydy AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES by Leah Bobet Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Clarion Books (October 6, 2015) Goodreads | Amazon The strange war down south—with its rumors of gods and monsters—is over. And while sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm. When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home in ways no one could have imagined, and soon Hallie is taking dangerous risks—and keeping desperate secrets. But even as she slowly learns more about the war and the men who fought it, ugly truths about Hallie’s own family are emerging. And while monsters and armies are converging on the small farm, the greatest threat to her home may be Hallie herself.   I don’t even know where to begin. I don’t even know how to categorize An Inheritance of Ashes. This book has a little of everything and is more of a dystopian st...

Review by Paola   DREAMSTRIDER by Lindsay Smith Age Range: 12 - 18 years Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (October 6, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A high-concept, fantastical espionage novel set in a world where dreams are the ultimate form of political intelligence. Livia is a dreamstrider. She can inhabit a subject's body while they are sleeping and, for a short time, move around in their skin. She uses her talent to work as a spy for the Barstadt Empire. But her partner, Brandt, has lately become distant, and when Marez comes to join their team from a neighboring kingdom, he offers Livia the option of a life she had never dared to imagine. Livia knows of no other dreamstriders who have survived the pull of Nightmare. So only she understands the stakes when a plot against the Empire emerges that threatens to consume both the dreaming world and the waking one with misery and rage. Livia is the only dreamstrider in the Barstadt Empire. ...

Review by Krista Flashes (Flashes) by Tim O'Rourke Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Chicken House (October 27, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A brilliant detective thriller with a supernatural twist! Charley has visions... Flashes of things she can't explain. A girl in trouble. The sound of trains. She feels certain they are clues to a crime. But no one will believe her. Until she meets Tom, a young policeman on his first case: an accidental death on the railway tracks, not far from where Charley lives. Was it an accident, suicide...or murder? The attraction between Charley and Tom is instant, but can they work together to find out what really happened on the tracks before it happens again? Recommended for fans of Slide by Jill Hathaway and 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma. Flashes is the story of Charley who has been experiencing flashes- or visions- of girls whom have been kidnapped and murdered. They all seem to be connected somehow and she's...

Review by Krista  The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Expected publication: October 6th 2015 by Simon & Schuster Goodreads | Amazon Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back? Celebrated author Kenneth Oppel creates a...

Review by Elisa DARKNESS BRUTAL by Rachel A. Marks Series: The Dark Cycle (Book 1) Paperback: 422 pages Publisher: Skyscape (July 1, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon   Aidan O’Linn’s childhood ended the night he saw a demon kill his mother and mark his sister, Ava, with Darkness. Since then, every three years the demons have returned to try to claim her. Living in the gritty, forgotten corners of Los Angeles, Aidan has managed to protect his sister, but he knows that even his powers to fight demons and speak dead languages won’t keep her safe for much longer. In desperation, Aidan seeks out the help of Sid, the enigmatic leader of a group of teens who run LA Paranormal, an Internet reality show that fights demons and ghosts. In their company, Aidan believes he’s finally found a haven for Ava. But when he meets Kara, a broken girl who can spin a hypnotic web of passionate energy, he awakens powers he didn’t know he had―and unleashes a new era of war ...