Hungry Author: H.A. Swain Category: Young Adult Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Release Date: 6-3-14 In the future, food is no longer necessary—until Thalia begins to feel something unfamiliar and uncomfortable. She’s hungry. In Thalia’s world, there is no need for food—everyone takes medication (or “inocs”) to ward off hunger. It should mean there is no […]
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The Truth About Alice By Jennifer Mathieu
The structure of this book was perhaps a bit unusual, since we don’t hear from Alice until the very end, but I really loved the way it worked for the story. Each teen involved in this rumor had their own version of the truth about Alice, and through it we also hear their own […]
Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend By Katie Finn
When I first picked up this book, I balked a bit because I had a pretty hard time feeling sympathy for a teen who is “forced” to spend the summer with her father in a fabulous beach house in The Hamptons, but I quickly discovered that this summer read had a lot going on. Gemma’s […]
Love Letters To The Dead By Ava Dellaira
Love Letters To The Dead Author: Ava Dellaira Category: Young Adult Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 4-1-14 It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has […]
Blog Tour: She Is Not Invisible
I am so happy to have Marcus Sedgwick back to Ex Libris to answer some of my questions about his latest book, She Is Not Invisible. First, a little bit about the story: She Is Not Invisible Author: Marcus Sedgwick Category: Young Adult Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Release Date: 4-22-14 Laureth Peak’s father has […]
She Is Not Invisible By Marcus Sedgwick
She Is Not Invisible Author: Marcus Sedgwick Category: Young Adult Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Release Date: 4-22-14 Laureth Peak’s father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers–a skill at which she’s remarkably talented. Her secret: She is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her 7-year-old brother Benjamin are […]
Sekret By Lindsay Smith
Sekret Author: Lindsay Smith Category: Young Adult Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Release Date: 4-1-14 Yulia’s father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she’s captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. […]
The Winner’s Curse By Marie Rutkoski
The Winner’s Curse Author: Marie Rutkoski Category: Young Adult Publisher: FSG Release Date: 3-4-14 As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to […]
Tin Star By Cecil Castellucci
Tin Star Author: Cecil Castellucci Category: Young Adult Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Release Date: 2-25-14 On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the Prairie Rose, a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop […]
Cress By Marissa Meyer
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) Author: Marissa Meyer Category: Young Adult Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Release Date: 2-4-14 In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best […]