The Scorpio Races

Title: The Scorpio Races Author: Maggie Stiefvater Narrator: Steve West and Fiona Hardingham ISBN: 9780545224901 Pages: 409 pages Dics/CDs: 10 CDs, 12 hours 7 minutes Publisher/Date: Scholastic Inc., c2011. “It’s the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” When Sean Kendrick was ten, his father was killed by a cappal uisce during the [...]

A World Without Heroes

Title: A World Without Heroes Series: Beyonders #1 Author: Brandon Mull ISBN: 9781416997924 Pages: 454 pages Publisher/Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, c2011. He attempted to double back to the reading area, but could not find that, either. Instead, he came to a different open area, where the only furnishing [...]

Inkheart

Title: Inkheart Author: Cornelia Funke Narrator: Lynn Redgrave ISBN: 0807220108 Pages: 534 pages Discs/CDs: 14 CDs, 15 hours 36 minutes Publisher/Date: Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group, c2003. Meggie has led a quiet life with her bookbinder father Mo, surrounded by books and reveling in the enjoyment they provide her. One [...]

Where She Went

Title: Where She Went Author: Gayle Forman Series: Sequel to If I Stay ISBN: 9780525422945 Pages: 264 pages Publisher/Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., c2011. Publication Date: April 5, 2011 She left the rehab center after four weeks, two weeks ahead of schedule. She could walk with a cane, open a [...]

Anna and the French Kiss

Title: Anna and the French Kiss Author: Stephanie Perkins ISBN: 9780525423270 Pages: 372 pages Publisher/Date: Dutton Books, c2010. He’s drunk. He’s just drunk. Calm down, Anna. He’s drunk, and he’s going through a crisis. There is NO WAY he knows what he’s talking about right now. So what do I do? Oh my God, what [...]

Finnikin of the Rock

Title: Finnikin of the Rock Author: Melina Marchetta ISBN: 9780763643614 Pages: 399 pages Publisher/Date: Candlewick Press, c2008. (originally published in Viking/Penguin Books (Australia), 2008) U.S. Publication Date: Feb. 9, 2010. As summer moved into autumn and the days grew shorter, Finnikin began to worry. He would tremble in fear when he remembered his dream. [...] Until [...]

Revolution

Title: Revolution Author: Jennifer Donnelly ISBN: 9780385737630 Pages: 482 pages Publisher/Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, c2010. I laugh out loud. “No, I’m not.” “No arguments, Andi. You’re coming to Paris and you’re taking your laptop with you. We’ll be there for three weeks. Plenty of time for you to work up [...]

Leviathan

Title: Leviathan Author: Scott Westerfeld Illustrator: Keith Thompson ISBN: 9781416971733 Pages: 440 pages Publisher/Date: Simon Pulse (imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division), c2009. Alex was still waving when the first broadside erupted, bright flashes rippling along the dreadnought’s flank, puffs of cannon smoke swelling into a hazy veil around her. The sound followed [...]

The Sky is Everywhere

Title: The Sky is Everywhere Author: Jandy Nelson ISBN: 9780803734951 Pages: 277 pages Publisher/Date: Dial Book, an imprint of Penguin Group Inc., c2010. “This boy beaming before me, however, seems to glow in a class all his own. He must be from a very friendly part of the Milky Way, I’m thinking as I try [...]

The Help

Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Narrators: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9780143144182 Pages: 451 pages Discs: 15 CDs, about 18 hours Publisher/Date: Amy Einhorn Books, (Penguin Audio) c2009. “I want to interview you. About what it’s like to work as a maid.” [...] I turn and look at her. [...]